Newspaper of a middle-class man of Paris
The Journal of a middle-class man of Paris is an anonymous work written by a Parisian between 1405 and 1449. It is one of the important sources concerning this city in first half of the 15th century, period marked by the English occupation of the kingdom.
The oldest known version of the text is a copy dating from second half of the 15th century and today in the collections of the the Vatican. Another copy of the 15th century is with Oxford, but the text is mutilated. All the hostile passages to the England were cut. One knows four other handwritten copies of the text, but, later, they date from the end of the 16th century. They take again the text of the copy of the Vatican and bring sometimes even of the additional precise details. It is in particular the case of the manuscript of Aix and the copy of National library of France.
The first editions are partial and it is necessary to await 1729 to have a printed integral version of the text.
Modern edition
- Newspaper of a middle-class man of Paris , Delivers pocket, Gothic Lettres collection, 1990
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