La Chronique Anonyme Universelle : reading and writing history in fifteenth-century France

Folger bibliographic ID: 345118
Folger call number: CD-ROM 100
Folger holdings ID: 496717
Folger call number: D17 .C525 2014
Folger holdings ID: 495964

This volume presents the first comprehensive study of the Chronique Anonyme Universelle, a lavishly illustrated scroll history of the world from Creation to the fifteenth century. Working in a French noble library around the year 1410, the anonymous compiler of the Chronique told the story of humanity - nearly six thousand years by his reckoning - by editing historical texts at his disposal, arranging them in parallel columns on a vertical scroll, and filling the inter-columnar space with complex genealogical diagrams. The Chronique reflects a particular and particularly French self-image and worldview that become increasingly apparent as the reader traverses its direct and unbroken line from the Bible, Egypt, Greece and Troy to the histories of the Papacy, the Roman and Holy Roman Empires, the Crusades, and the royal houses of France and England

General notes

Accompanying CD-ROM contains a digital facsimile of the Chronique Anonyme Universelle In English; with the Chronique Anonyme Universelle in Middle French with parallel English translation Includes bibliographical references and indexes This volume presents the first comprehensive study of the Chronique Anonyme Universelle, a lavishly illustrated scroll history of the world from Creation to the fifteenth century. Working in a French noble library around the year 1410, the anonymous compiler of the Chronique told the story of humanity - nearly six thousand years by his reckoning - by editing historical texts at his disposal, arranging them in parallel columns on a vertical scroll, and filling the inter-columnar space with complex genealogical diagrams. The Chronique reflects a particular and particularly French self-image and worldview that become increasingly apparent as the reader traverses its direct and unbroken line from the Bible, Egypt, Greece and Troy to the histories of the Papacy, the Roman and Holy Roman Empires, the Crusades, and the royal houses of France and England

Extended title: La Chronique Anonyme Universelle : reading and writing history in fifteenth-century France / [edited by] Lisa Fagin Davis
Alternate titles: reading and writing history in 15th century France

Chronique anonyme universelle Manuscripts, French Illumination of books and manuscripts, French World history France

editor: Davis, Lisa Fagin