Les grandes et inestimables cronicq[ue]s: du grant et enorme geant Gargantua
Subtitle: contenant sa genealogie la gra[n]deur et force de son corps. Aussi ses merueilleux faictz darmes quil fist pour le roy Artus co[m]me verrez cy apres. Imprime nouuelleme[n]t. 1532
Contributors: Champion, Pierre, 1880-1942
Publisher: [Éditions des Quatre chemins, par Frazier-Soye]
Published: 1925
Place of publication: Paris]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Gargantua
Other titles: Pantagrueline prognostication.
Work titles: Grandes chroniques de Gargantua
Notes: Facsimile of the 1532 edition published in Lyon by Claude Nourry.

Signatures: A-D⁴.

Formerly attributed to Rabelais, now generally considered one of the early versions, of unknown authorship, of the Gargantua tales of folk-lore. Cf. Plattard, Jean. L'œuvre de Rabelais, 1910, p. 11-13; and Boulenger, J.R. Rabelais à travers les âges, 1925, p. 169.

Appended is Rabelais' work: Pantagrueline prognosticatio[n] certaine veritable et i[n]falible pour la[n] mil. D.xxxiii. nouuelleme[n]t composee au profit et aduiseme[n]t de ge[n]s estourdis et musars de nature p[ar] maistre Alcofribas architriclin dudict Pantagruel ...[Lyon, François Juste, 1532] ([8] p. Signature: A⁴. At end: device of Juste, without monogram.

On verso of a leaf following [A4]: Reproduit en fac-similé à trois cents exemplaires pour les Éditions des Quatre chemins par Frazier-Soye, imprimeur à Paris, l'an mil neuf cent vingt-cinq.

The two facsimiles are reproduced from the original pamphlets in the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris (Rés. Y² 2124; and Rés. Y² 2125). Fol. A3 wanting in Y² 2124, has been reprinted from a copy in the Staatsbibliothek, Munich (Rar. 54 m) and accompanies the volume as a detached leaf. Of Y² 2125 no other copy is known. The volume is bound in flexible vellum with François Juste's device in gilt on front cover.

To the inside front cover is attached facsimile of a manuscript note as found with the original copy.

Accompanied by a separate brochure (cover title, 17, [1] p. 18 cm.): Deux publications lyonnaises de 1532, notice par Pierre Champion. Paris, Éditions des Quatre chemins, 1925.