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The history of the city of Metz written in quatrains, including the establishment of the city; stories about St. Clement, the first bishop; accounts of numerous battles in the region; and actions of Henry II of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, towards the town.
Support: paper; Extent: 139 leaves : 200 x 150 (173 x 77) mm. bound to 208 x 170 mm; Foliation: Paper, ii (19th-century paper) + 139 + ii (19th-century paper); 1, 7, [i], 10-14, 29-126, 129-161; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, [1-139], modern foliation in pencil, lower center recto. References in this record are to the modern foliation.
Written in 5 or 6 quatrains per page; frame-ruled in ink.
Written in several different cursive scripts, with quatrains in one hand, section headings and marginal dates in another, and the entries for 1554 through 1576 (f. 105v-139v) in a third hand.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: Par ce moien voisineuf eur nom / ne depuis ... (f. 1r).
The name Richard appears at the end of the work (f. 139v) in a hand that may be contemporary but does not appear elsewhere in the work.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Metz, France
Written in Metz between 1553 (f. 124v) and 1576 (f. 139r).
19th-century calf (Zacour-Hirsch); spine is partly missing and is detached from upper cover.
Middle French
Formerly owned by Hermann Sucher (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York, N. Y.), cat. I (1954), Item 70.28.
Metz, France
Written in Metz between 1553 (f. 124v) and 1576 (f. 139r).
Middle French
Formerly owned by Hermann Sucher
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal
The history of the city of Metz written in quatrains, including the establishment of the city; stories about St. Clement, the first bishop; accounts of numerous battles in the region; and actions of Henry II of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, towards the town.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: Par ce moien voisineuf eur nom / ne depuis ... (f. 1r).
The name Richard appears at the end of the work (f. 139v) in a hand that may be contemporary but does not appear elsewhere in the work.
Written in several different cursive scripts, with quatrains in one hand, section headings and marginal dates in another, and the entries for 1554 through 1576 (f. 105v-139v) in a third hand.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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