Ci commencent les croniques d'france extraites des croniques de saint denis en france par frere guillaume de nangis.
Title
Ci commencent les croniques d'france extraites des croniques de saint denis en france par frere guillaume de nangis.
Alternative Title
Other title: Cronique de Guillaume de nangis moine de st-denys
Creator
Guillaume de Nangis, active 13th century
Date
1400 - 1499
Format
403 folios, bound ; parchment and paper; 28 cm
Description
Uniform title based on table of contents, ff.1-8.
Contents similar to BnF, MS francais 2598, with text veering away after the year 1350.
First line of text: "Ci commencent les croniques d'france extraites des croniques de saint denis en france par frere guillaume de nangis...."--ff. 8.
Watermark: St. Catherine's wheel with crank on one side and small bird standing in profile on other side (unidentified in Briquet, Gravell, Bernstein, or Piccard).
Written by a single scribe in Batarde script in 32 long lines, yellow wash on majuscules, red line-fillers, red paraphs marking breaks in text and insert rubrics at chapter incipits. Medieval Roman foliation in light brown ink at upper recto margin of ff. 8-230, modern foliation in pencil in top recto corner, incomplete at end, vertical catchwords inner bottom margin on all quires except xviii and xxv.
Binding: original French binding of cushioned wooden boards cut flush with bookblock, covered with brown leather stamped with four petal flowers and fillets; front board with nearly all leather covering lacking, remnants of two straps with original brass nails; spine fully exposed, supports detached at all but top endband and middle support; back board loose; bottom clasp featuring detailed relief of standing Agnus Dei with nimbus and holding cross standard.
French translation of Chronicon abbreviatum regum Francorum by Guillaume de Nangis, expanded by several authors after his death. Recounts the victories and failures of royalty, intended to edify and entertain, while legitimatizing the divine right of French kings by providing the monarchy with a spectacular lineage from ancient times.
Ms. transcription, probably executed in France during the 15th century. Beginning mythically with Priam of the Trojans, and continuing with the Merovingians, Guillaume de Nangis' history of the kings of France reaches to c. 1300. Here the text has been extended by anonymous chroniclers of St.-Denis into the fourteenth century. In French.
Contents similar to BnF, MS francais 2598, with text veering away after the year 1350.
First line of text: "Ci commencent les croniques d'france extraites des croniques de saint denis en france par frere guillaume de nangis...."--ff. 8.
Watermark: St. Catherine's wheel with crank on one side and small bird standing in profile on other side (unidentified in Briquet, Gravell, Bernstein, or Piccard).
Written by a single scribe in Batarde script in 32 long lines, yellow wash on majuscules, red line-fillers, red paraphs marking breaks in text and insert rubrics at chapter incipits. Medieval Roman foliation in light brown ink at upper recto margin of ff. 8-230, modern foliation in pencil in top recto corner, incomplete at end, vertical catchwords inner bottom margin on all quires except xviii and xxv.
Binding: original French binding of cushioned wooden boards cut flush with bookblock, covered with brown leather stamped with four petal flowers and fillets; front board with nearly all leather covering lacking, remnants of two straps with original brass nails; spine fully exposed, supports detached at all but top endband and middle support; back board loose; bottom clasp featuring detailed relief of standing Agnus Dei with nimbus and holding cross standard.
French translation of Chronicon abbreviatum regum Francorum by Guillaume de Nangis, expanded by several authors after his death. Recounts the victories and failures of royalty, intended to edify and entertain, while legitimatizing the divine right of French kings by providing the monarchy with a spectacular lineage from ancient times.
Ms. transcription, probably executed in France during the 15th century. Beginning mythically with Priam of the Trojans, and continuing with the Merovingians, Guillaume de Nangis' history of the kings of France reaches to c. 1300. Here the text has been extended by anonymous chroniclers of St.-Denis into the fourteenth century. In French.
Provenance
Duguet, Jean-François, 1660-1724, former owner.
Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf fund.
Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf fund.
Language
French
Identifier
Flat folio Dated 1450 .N36
JONAS Répertoire des textes et des manuscrits médiévaux d'oc et d'oïl (Jonas-IRHT/CNRS), http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/oeuvre/5277
JONAS Répertoire des textes et des manuscrits médiévaux d'oc et d'oïl (Jonas-IRHT/CNRS), http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/oeuvre/5277
Relation
https://ocul-qu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_QU/1bso4gg/alma9952768101205158
Files
Collection
Citation
Guillaume de Nangis, active 13th century, “Ci commencent les croniques d'france extraites des croniques de saint denis en france par frere guillaume de nangis.,” Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection, accessed December 11, 2025, https://schulichwoolf.omeka.net/items/show/1095.