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MONSTRELET, Enguerrand de (c. 1390/1395-1453)

Lot 110
13.07.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 110 | MONSTRELET, Enguerrand de (c. 1390/1395-1453)
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MONSTRELET, Enguerrand de (c. 1390⁄1395-1453)

[Chroniques] Le premier [second, tiers] volume de enguerran de monstrellet. Paris: François Regnault, 1518.

The Chatsworth copy of Monstrelet’s important chronicle. Monstrelet picks up where Froissart left off, in 1400, and broadens Froissart's scope to relate events beyond France. Much of what he relates he saw either at first hand or heard from an eye-witness, for instance he was at Cambrai when Joan of Arc was captured and was present at her subsequent interview with the Duke of Burgundy, although he claims not to remember details of the conversation. The first two volumes, up to 1444, are the work of Monstrelet himself; the author of the third volume is anonymous but generally considered to be Matthieu d'Escouchy. This fourth edition follows two undated editions by Vérard (c. 1500 and 1508) and a 1512 edition by Jean Petit and Michel le Noir, but this is the first to contain the additions from 1498 to 1516 bringing the History up to the reign of Francois I. These additions were mostly taken from the Mer des Histoires. Adams M-1616; Brunet III: 1832; Renouard-Moreau II, 1904. USTC 702, 52431, 79889.



3 volumes in one, folio (305 x 200mm). In double column, woodcut calligraphic initial on each title, one full-page woodcut presentation scene and one woodcut of a scribe in vol. I, half-page woodcut in vol. II, Regnault’s large woodcut elephant device on each title and at end of each volume, woodcut ornamental initials (small marginal worm-hole in a few leaves of vol. I, ink splash on two ll, minor marginal waterstain and light spotting in the last leaves of vol. III, small worm-track in lower margin in a few leaves of vol. III just touching a few letters) 18th-century calf, backed in red morocco, sides bordered with gilt triple fillet, spine gilt in compartments, the Devonshire monogram in upper compartment (spine ends chipped, joints split, corners rubbed, cup ring on lower cover). Provenance: 'Pamam' (small title inscription in vol. II) — John Prickett (autograph on title dated 1775) — William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire (1808-1891; Chatsworth bookplate; sold Christie's, 30 June 1958, lot 76).





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