1606 HISTORY of FRANCE Jean Froissart & Phillippe de Commines antique vellum

Froissart, Jean and Phillippe de Commines.

Duo Gallicarum rerum scriptores nobilissimi,
Frossardus in brevem historiarum memorabilium epitomen contractus;
Ph. Cominaeus de reb. gestis a Ludovico XI, & Carolo VIII, Francorum regibus.
Ambo a J. Sleidano e Gallico in Latinum sermonem conversi.

Hanau, C. de Marne & Erben J. Aubrys ; 1606

With woodcut.-printer's mark at the end.

951 pp., 36 pp. (index)

Original hand tooled vellum binding, spine with raised bands and manuscript title

 Nice pocket edition of the French chroniclers in Sleidanus' Latin translation.

Was already published in 1584 and 1594 (same collation) by Wechels Erben in Frankfurt.

Toning, several underlinings, lacks front endpaper


 size : 3 1/4 by 4 3/4"

Text in Latin (translated from French by Johannes Sleidanus)
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Jean Froissart (Old and Middle French: Jehan; sometimes known as John Froissart in English; c.?1337 – c.?1405) was a French-speaking medieval author and court historian from the Low Countries who wrote several works, including Chronicles and Meliador, a long Arthurian romance, and a large body of poetry, both short lyrical forms as well as longer narrative poems. For centuries, Froissart's Chronicles have been recognised as the chief expression of the chivalric revival of the 14th-century kingdoms of England, France and Scotland.
His history is also an important source for the first half of the Hundred Years' War.

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Philippe de Commines (also Commynes or Comines; Latin: Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 –  1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France.
He has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" (Oxford Companion to English Literature).
Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time.
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