The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 28562

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9968

Shelfmark:

mssHM 28562

Title:

Selection from the Chroniques d'Engleterre

Author:

Wavrin, Jehan de, seigneur du Forestel, active 1415-1471

Jean de Wavrin WIKIDATA

Place:

Flanders

Flanders TGN

Date:

between 1485 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

French

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 332 : paper ; 285 x 385 mm

Former Owner(s):

La Vallière, Louis César de LaBaume LeBlanc de, 1708-1780

Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc WIKIDATA

Stuart de Rothesay, Charles Stuart, Baron, 1779-1845

Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Section of Jehan de Wavrin's Chroniques d'Engleterre covering the years 1337-1377; written in Flanders toward the end of the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-332v. Support: Paper. Watermark(s): Briquet, Armoiries, trois fleurs de lis 1741, Troyes 1470; and Ancre 393, Paris 1479. Layout: 1-178 188(-8, after f. 143) 19-418 428(-5, 6, 7). Catchwords written horizontally in inner right corner, often cropped; quires and leaves signed with letters of the alphabet (a-z, tironian 7, "cum" abbreviation, then again from a on) and roman...
Decoration: Miniatures in water color grisaille with pink, red, gold or green for accent. The underlying sketches of the 2 large miniatures, ff. 1 and 62, are still visible; that on f. 1 includes pentimenti of 2 small grinning dogs in the foreground (caricature?). Opening miniature, f. 1, 31 lines in height, and width of both columns, depicting the coronation of Edward III; full border in...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
Unidentified coat of arms in the lower margin of f. 1: tierced in pale, 1, per fess, in chief, chequy or and azure a bordure gules (Counts of Dreux; Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 226), and in base, or 2 pallets azure a chief gules; 2, azure 2 crosses flory or in chief and in base; 3, per fess, in chief, or 2 pallets azure a chief gules, and in base, chequy or and azure a bordure gules; en surtout an...

Keyword:

coats of arms

illuminations (paintings)

miniatures (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

Great Britain

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862200

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52729/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens