Chronique Dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes (Volume I)
Northern France; c. 1460-1470
Beschrijving
1 two-column miniature (197x190 mm) with border decoration; 5 illustrations in the margin (1 coat of arms and 4 emblems); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 1v, 77r, 142v, 177r, etc.)
Herkomst
Acquired by Philip of Cleves (d. 1528) before 1492 (coat of arms with label; over erasure); purchased in 1531 from his estate by Henri III, Count of Nassau (d. 1538); by inheritance to the Princes of Orange-Nassau, the later Stadtholders at The Hague; taken in 1795 to Paris by the French occupying forces and restituted in 1816 to the KB
Codicologie
Vellum, ff. 322, 405x300 (240x190) mm, 2 columns, 38 lines, littera hybrida (lettre bourguignonne). French. Binding: 18th-century brown leather, gilt, with coat of armes of Stadtholder William V
