A tous nobles qui aiment beaux et bonnes histoires",... Lot 35

A tous nobles qui aiment beaux et bonnes histoires", genealogical chronicle of the kings of France, end of the 15th century. Rare scroll in parchment skins measuring 2.90 m x 0.245 m, composed of 4 membranes glued to each other, text in French spread over 2 columns after a prologue in long lines, traces of pricking on either side of the skin testifying to the use of the scribe's system of adjustment to homogenize the line spacing. The top of the roll is cut out forming a triangle or capital. Gothic writing in brown ink for the body of the text, and in red ink for the prologue and introduction to each chapter. The initial of each chapter is painted in colour, alternately red and blue, and a few fly's feet punctuate the text and introduce the main sections, making it easier to read. The number of each section is written in red in the margins and in Roman numerals. In the left margin, two red and blue half-lilies are decorated. In the centre of the text, from top to bottom, a simplified family tree, without miniatures, composed of a series of diagrams in brown ink, in which the male names are written in brown ink and the female characters in red ink. The manuscript begins with a prologue: "Cy s'ensuivent les lignes lignes lignes des roys de France et comment les generacions sont descententes l'une de l'autre... et si y font figurees auctions notables eglises que les roys de France, ont fonda ", and ends with a Latin formula: " Explica ut arnica francoys ab[b]reviata ". The dynastic chronicle concludes with the reign of Charles VII, but King Louis XI and Charles his son the dolphin appear in the medallions of the tree. We can therefore assume that the writing of this chronicle took place between 1470 and 1483. This text is a short chronicle, anonymous and in French, of the lineage of the kings of France, "since the creation of the world by God", illustrated with genealogical diagrams (following the example of the Compendium of Pierre de Poitiers), abundantly distri