Volume premier[-troisiesme] des Chroniques d'Enguerran de Monstrelet gentil-homme iadis demeurant a Cambray en Cambresis. : Contenans les cruelles guerres ciuilles entre les maisons d'Orleans & de Bourgongne, l'occupation de Paris & Normandie par les Anglois, l'expulsion d'iceux, & autres choses memorables aduenues de son temps en ce royaume, & paÿs estranges. Histoire de bel exemple & de grand fruict aux Francois, commenceant en l'an M. CCCC. où finist celle de Iean Froissart, & finissant en l'an M.CCCC.LXVII. peu outre le commencement de celle de Mess. Philippes de Commines.

Monstrelet, Enguerrand de, d. 1453, Desrey, Pierre, ca. 1450-ca. 1520, attributed name, Du Clercq, Jacques, 1420-1501, attributed name, Sauvage, Denis, sieur du Parc, 1520?-1587?, Chaudière, Guillaume, d. 1601, bookseller, Le Blanc, Jean, fl. 1576-1601, printer, Seymour, Henry, former owner · 1572 · A Paris : Chez Guillaume Chaudiere · 76 pictures

A 1572 Paris printed edition, issued by Guillaume Chaudiere, of the three-volume chronicle by Enguerrand de Monstrelet covering the Hundred Years' War between the Orleans and Burgundy houses and the English occupation of Paris and Normandy, written for French readers. The pictures are repeated decorative woodcut initials, the large letter L and one E, with a seated lion-like beast with curling leaf scrolls filling the letter's counters, a motif a designer could borrow for ornamental capitals.

Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 · Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453

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