Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1878) (14578238450)

Identifier: sciliteratur00jaco (find matches)
Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval
Publisher: London : Bickers and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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Fig. 368.—Portrait of Froiss.irt, after a Kcd Chalk Drawing preserved in theTown Library, Arras. there is not a single work of history written in Latin. Most of themanuscripts had been acquired at great expense by Charles V., who readthem or had them read to him, and who appended his autograph to each one.They were seized or purchased in 1425 by the Duke of Bedford, who tookthem to England, where they were either destroyed or dispersed, and thelibrarjr of the French kings in the Louvre had to be reformed. The fondness of Charles V. for the study of history did much to aid the CHRONICLES, HISTORIES, MEMOIRS. 479
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Fig. 369—M(No -Kin- Charlos VII., upon qnitting Ronon, sets out to besiege the Town of Harflour.iniature from the Chroniques do Monstrelet.-Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century2,679).—In the National Library, Faris. progress of that bmnrli of literature. That sovereign, a friend of hferatureand of men of letters, like his two brothers, the Due dc Berry and the 4?o CHRONICLES, HISTORIES, MEMOIRS. Due dAnjou, did not confine liimself to the composition of sumjotuous Yolumesof history, hien emripts et histories, with rich bindings, for he had in hishousehold several translators—amongst others, Jean de Yignay and Laurentdu Premier-Fait^to whom he gave orders what Latin or Italian works hewished to have translated into French; but he had no chronicler holding anofficial title, and he allowed the monks of St. Denis to continue their task ofwriting in Latin the history of his reign—a history which has not, unfor-tunately, been preserved. It is nevertheless from this reign that dates t