Chroniques de Froissart, vol 1 - Den Haag, KB : 72 A 25 (c.1410)

illuminated manuscript (collection highlight from the KB)
English: Jean Froissart, Chroniques (Vol. I):
  • Place of origin, date: Paris, Virgil Master (illuminator); c. 1410
  • Material: Vellum, ff. 382, 385x288 (243x187) mm, 42 lines, littera cursiva, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; gilt; with coat of arms of Stadholder William V
  • Decoration: 1 two-column miniature (170x180 mm); 29 column miniatures (115/65x95/80 mm); 1 historiated initial (45x50 mm); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 1r, 24r, 36r, 62r, 74v, etc.)
  • Provenance: Louis de Luxemburg, conn‚table de France (d. 1475; signature, erased); by descent to his granddaughter Françoise de Luxembourg and her husband Philip of Cleves (d. 1528; coat of arms with label, over erasure; signature); purchased in 1531 from Philip's estate by HenriIII, Count of Nassau (d. 1538); by descent to the Princes of Orange-Nassau, the later Stadholders, at The Hague; carried off in 1795 to Paris by the French and restituted to the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in 1816

Catalogue[dead link]
The Online Froissart: The Hague 72 A 25[dead link]

Jean Froissart: Chroniques de Froissart (KB 72 A 25)  wikidata:Q46999823 reasonator:Q46999823
Title
French:
Chroniques (volume 1) Edit this at Wikidata

Chroniques de Froissart (KB 72 A 25)
title QS:P1476,fr:"Chroniques (volume 1) Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lfr,"Chroniques (volume 1) Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Chroniques de Froissart (KB 72 A 25)"
label QS:Lda,"Froissarts krønik"
label QS:Lnl,"Kroniek van Froissart (KB 72 A 25)"
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Object type illuminated manuscript / chronicle / manuscript Edit this at Wikidata
Language Middle French Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1400s
date QS:P,+1400-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
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Medium parchment and brown leather Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 385 mm (15.1 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 288 mm (11.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+385U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,+288U174789
institution QS:P195,Q1526131
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Place of creation Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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