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

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

Title

French:

Chroniques (volume 1)

Chroniques de Froissart (KB 72 A 25)

Object type

Language

Date

1400s

Medium

Dimensions

height: 385 mm (15.1 in)

; width: 288 mm (11.3 in)

Collection

Koninklijke Bibliotheek

	Native name	Koninklijke Bibliotheek
	Location	The Hague
	Coordinates	52° 04′ 50″ N, 4° 19′ 36″ E
	Established	8 November 1798
	Authority file	: Q1526131 VIAF: 102145970121932251120 ISNI: 0000000123699000 ULAN: 500307428 LCCN: n79130800 NLA: 36189008 WorldCat