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Jean Froissart: Chroniques de Froissart (KB 72 A 25)  wikidata:Q46999823 reasonator:Q46999823
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Jean Froissart  (1337–1410)  wikidata:Q315000 s:en:Author:Jean Froissart q:en:Jean Froissart
 
Jean Froissart
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Jean Froissart. A chronicler of medieval France who wrote "Froissart's Chronicles" which is an important source of information for the first half of the Hundred Years' War.
Description French chronicler, historian, canon, poet, writer and heraldist
Date of birth/death 1330s
date QS:P,+1330-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
 1405
Location of birth/death Valenciennes Edit this at Wikidata Chimay Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q315000
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English: The garrison of Cherbourg defeats that of Montbourg
Object type illuminated manuscript / chronicle / manuscript Edit this at Wikidata
Language Middle French Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1410
date QS:P571,+1410-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium

color on vellum
Material: , 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.)
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
Place of origin, date: Paris, Virgil Master (illuminator)
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72 A 25 (KB National Library of the Netherlands) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Object history 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
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Source/Photographer Jean Froissart, Chroniques (Vol. I)


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