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| Keywords: The French defeated before Calais by Edward III.jpg en Jean Froissart Chroniques Vol I The French defeated before Calais by Edward III 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 š 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 http //www kb nl/manuscripts/show/manuscript/72+A+25 Jean Froissart Chroniques Vol I Virgil Master illuminator ca 1410 Edward III of England Chroniques de Froissart vol 1 - Den Haag KB 72 A 25 c 1410 Medieval miniatures of battles Bataille de Calais PD-old-100 | ||||
