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Royal MS 16 G VI
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- 040-002107228
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- 032-002105724
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- Royal MS 16 G VI
- Title:
- Les Grandes chroniques de France
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The present manuscript contains a revised edition of the Grandes Chroniques de France that was commissioned by the future John II as Duke of Normandy (1332-1350), before his assumption of the throne. The text of the chronicle extends to the death of Louis IX (1270). The volume is prefixed by two leaves, in a late 14th-century hand, containing a table of the sixty-three kings of France from Pharamond to Charles V (ff. 1v-2r). Prologue incipit (f. 3r): 'Cil qui ceste euvre commence a tous ceulz qui ceste hystoire liront'; text incipit (f. 4v), 'Quatre cens et quatre ans'; the life of Louis IX of the earlier recension of the Grandes Chroniques (Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève, ms 782) was replaced here by a different translation of the Life of Saint Louis by Guillaume de Nangis, incipit (f. 390v): 'Un mois aprez ce que li roy Looys de France qui morut a Montpancier'; explicit 'ou quel lieu quant il furent enterrez nostres sires fist moult de miracles par les merites du bon roy'. The text is divided in books and each book, except the lives of Louis VII, Louis VIII and Louis IX is preceded by a list of chapters.
The manuscript also comprises a second set of emendations in the form of marginal notes that were executed later in John’s life. The source for this revision was the Latin text of the chronicle kept at the time at St Denis (now Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. lat. 5925, see Delisle 'Notes' (1877), pp. 203-12, and Hedeman The Royal Image (1991), p. 52).
Decoration:
418 one or two-column miniatures in colours and gold, at the beginning of books. The two-column miniature at the beginning of the text with a full bar border with vine extensions (f. 3r). Foliate initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of books. Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with dark blue pen-flourishing.
According to Hedeman (The Royal Image (1991), p. 221), it is one of nine illustrated copies of the Grandes Chroniques made before 1350, and illuminated in at least six distinct artistic styles between c. 1335-1340:
I: identified with Mahiet (or Master of the Vie de Saint Louis, named after Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, ms. fr. 5716): quires ii, v-xiv, xvii, xix, xxii-xxvi, xxxviii;
II: identified with the Master of the Cambrai Missal (named after Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 157): quires xx-xxi;
III: quires iii, iv, xxx;
IV: quires xv, xvi, xviii, xxi (except bifolium ff. 234 + 239), xxix, xxxi-xxxvii;
V: quire xxviii;
VI: bifolium ff. 234 + 239.
The subjects of the miniatures are:
f. 3r, Coronation of Pharamond; full border containing a knight holding a shield with the arms of John II as Duke of Normandy (Prologue).
f. 4v, Priam sending Paris; rape of Helen; and siege of Troy (Book 1, 1).
f. 5v, Valentinian sacking Troy (Book 1, 3).
f. 7v, Huns sacking Orleans; St Agnan's prayer (Book 1, 6).
f. 9r, Queen Basina following King Childeric; Queen Basina sending Childeric out into the night; Childeric's three visions of animals (Book 1, 10).
f. 10r, St Severinus presenting his prophecies to Odoacer; a scene of fighting (Book 1, 11).
f. 11r, Senators plotting with the emperor against King Thierry: Ptolemy relating a fable to the emperor (Book 1, 13).
f. 12v, King Clovis receiving St Remy's messenger; Clovis restoring the urn; and Clovis slaying the rash knight (Book 1, 15).
f. 14r, Clovis sending Aurelian with a letter; Aurelian, Gondebald, and Crotilda (Book 1, 17).
f. 15r, Clovis defeating the Alemans by praying to Christ (Book 1, 18).
f. 16r, Baptism of Clovis (Book 1, 20).
f. 17r, King Alaric receiving Clovis's messenger (Book 1, 21).
f. 18r, Clovis sending messengers to the church of Saint Martin at Tours to ask for a sign of victory (Book 1, 22).
f. 19r, Kanacaire (Ragnacharius) enthroned (Book 1, 24).
f. 21r, Miniature in four compartments of the four sons of Clovis: Kings Clodomire, Childebert, Theoderic, and Clotaire (Book 2, 1).
f. 22r, Pope John before King Theoderic and Emperor Justinian (Book 2, 2).
f. 23r, Justinian sleeping with his head in Antonia's lap, shaded by an eagle (Book 2, 3).
f. 24v, Death of King Amaury (Book 2, 5).
f. 25v, Theoderic and Childebert capturing cities (Book 2, 6).
f. 27v, Kings Clotaire and Childebert sending a messenger to queen Clotilda after the arrival of their nephews (Book 2, 9).
f. 29v, Belisarius restoring the crown to Justinian (Book 2, 12).
f. 30v, St Benedict, Pope Sylvester, and Emperor Justinian (Book 2, 13).
f. 31v, King Clotaire receiving envoys for peace: Clotilda praying for peace to St Martin at Tours (Book 2, 14).
f. 32v, Religious procession at Saragossa: Kings Clotaire and Childebert summoning a bishop (Book 2, 15).
f. 34v, Queen Clotilda's funeral (Book 2, 17).
f. 36r, Battle of French and Saxons (Book 2, 18).
f. 37r, Burning of the church of St Martin at Tours (Book 2, 19).
f. 38r, Arrest and abuse of Pope Vigilius by imperial soldiers (Book 2, 20).
f. 38v, Totila besieging Rome (Book 2, 21).
f. 40v, Intrigues of King Clotaire's sons; Chilperic expelled from Paris (Book 2, 23).
f. 42v, Marriage of King Sigebert to Brunhilda (Book 2, 25).
f. 43v, King Chilperic with women: Chilperic strangling Queen Galswintha (Book 3, 1).
f. 47r, Murder of Sigebert (Book 3,4).
f. 49r, Childebert speaking to St Germain (Book 3, 5).
f. 50r, Emperor Tiberius finding a God-given treasure (Book 3, 6).
f. 50v, King Guntram murdering his two nephews: death of Guntram’s children (Book 3, 7).
f. 52r, King Chilperic holding council at Paris (Book 3, 8).
f. 54r, Peace of Guntram and Sigebert (Book 3, 10).
f. 55v, Fredegunda reproving King Chilperic: Chilperic burning his edicts (Book 3, 11).
f. 58r, Emperor Maurice sending King Chilperic gold: Emperor Maurice attacking the Lombards: the Lombards buying the Emperor off (Book 3, 13).
f. 59r, Leudastes submitting to Chilperic: Chilperic's death (Book 3, 14).
f. 62r, Miracle at the altar; baptism of Jews; death of Pricus: Aetherius and the criminous clerk (Book 3, 15 and 16).
f. 63r, King Chilperic slaying the count of Rouen (Book 3,17).
f. 64r, Witches burnt and tortured: Mummolus hanged: Fredegunda melting her child's plate (Book 3, 18).
f. 65r, Murder of King Chilperic (Book 3, 19).
f. 66r, Treasure put in sanctuary of Notre-Dame: Guntram entertaining Fredegunda (Book 3, 20).
f. 67r, King Childebert and Gondoald; Boso escaping by swimming; Gondoald saluted as king (Book 3, 21).
f. 69r, A poor man warning Guntram; Fredegunda mutilating Olericus (i.e. clericus) (Book 3, 23).
f. 69v, Eberulph in sanctuary: Eberulph beating a clerk: Eberulph being murdered (Book 3, 24).
f. 71r, Gondoald and Mummolus abusing Manulphus (Book 3, 25).
f. 72v, Guntram receiving envoys from Childebert; Guntram presenting Childebert a lance; Guntram counseling Childebert (Book 4, 1).
f. 74r, Leudegesil conferring with Mummolus outside a besieged city (Book 4, 3).
f. 75r, Gondoald betrayed (Book 4, 4).
f. 76r, Fredegunda's daughter brought back: a grant given to Guntram ((Book 4, 5).
f. 77r, Bishops transferring relics of Christ's robe: Guntram receiving envoys (Book 4, 7).
f. 78r, Fredegunda showing her child to the army (Book 4, 8).
f. 80v, Apparition of an angel at the battle of Dormelles (Book 4, 11).
f. 81r, Battle of Étampes (Book 4, 12).
f. 82v, Theoderic recalling bishop Desiderius: Theoderic receiving the daughter of the Spanish King (Book 4, 14).
f. 84r, Peace between Theoderic and Theodebert (Book 4, 16).
f. 85r, Theodebert murdered in his treasury; Theodebert's head thrown out (Book 4, 17).
f. 85v, Quarrel of Theoderic and Brunnilda; Theoderic poisoned in his bath (Book 4, 18).
f. 86r, Capture of Brunhilda and of Theoderie's sons; Sigebert and Corbus killed (Book 4, 19).
f. 87r, Execution of Brunhilda (Book 4, 20).
f. 88v, Maurice kneels to his son-in-law Philip; murder of Maurice (Book 4, 23).
f. 89v, Death of Romhilda; Romhildas daughters saving their honour (Book 4, 24).
f. 90r, King Clotaire holding a council (Book 4, 25).
f. 91v, King Clotaire defeating the Saxons; Lombards presenting gifts to Clotaire (Book 5, 1).
f. 92r, Dagobert hunting; the stag taking refuge on the tomb of Rusticus and Eleutherius (Book 5, 2).
f. 93v, Dagobert cuting his tutor's beard: Dagobert taking refuge at the tomb (Book 5, 3).
f. 94v, Dagobert's vision and reconciliation with King Clotaire (Book 5, 4).
f. 95v, Ernulph reconciling Dagobert to Clotaire; Eusebius giving Adalwald a potion; death of Rodoald (Book 5, 5).
f. 97r, Dagobert wounded; Clothaire at the Weser removing his helmet; Clotaire carring off Bertoald's head (Book 5, 6).
f. 98r, Godin accused by his stepmother; Godin killed at his table (Book 5, 7).
f. 98v, Council of Clichy; death of Ermenharius (Book 5, 8).
f. 99v, Dagobert founding the abbey of St Denis (Book 5, 9).
f. 101r, Dagobert dispensing justice: Brunulph slain (Book 5, 10).
f. 101v, Dagobert and Ragintruda in bed (Book 5, 11).
f. 102v, Phocas throwing treasure into the sea; Phocas's death (Book 5, 12).
f. 104r, Envoys complain to the King of Sclavonia about the murder of merchants (Book 5, 13).
ff. 105r, 106r Gifts of Dagobert to St Denis (Book 5, 14-15).
f. 107r, Dagobert making his last will (Book 5, 16).
f. 108r, Dagobert pardoning the Gascons (Book 5, 17).
f. 109r, Dagobert on his death-bed (Book 5, 18).
f. 110r, Ansoald's voyage; Ansoald meeting with John the hermit; the hermit's vision (Book 5, 19).
f. 111r, Homage paid to Clovis; Nantilda ordering her affairs (Book 5, 20).
f. 112r, Clovis and Landry giving an exemption to St Denis (Book 5, 21).
f. 112v, Clovis taking a bone of St Denis; Clovis making peace with the monks of St Denis (Book 5, 22).
f. 113v, Bathilda founding abbeys at Corbie and Chelles (Book 5, 23).
f. 114v, Ebroin defeating the Austrasians (Book 5, 24).
f. 116v, Battle of Chilperic and Charles Martel (Book 5, 25).
f. 117v, Charles defeating the Saracens at the battle of Poitiers (Book 5, 26).
f. 118v, Siege of Avignon (Book 5, 27).
f. 119v, Death-bed of Charles Martel (Book 5, 27).
f. 120r, Siege of Laon; agreement between the brothers (Book 5, 28).
f. 121r, Pepin defeating the Lombards (Book 5, 29).
f. 122v, Pepin holding a parliament; Pepin's army (Book 5, 30).
f. 124r, Eginhard and Turpin writing and in discussion with barons (Charlemagne, book 1, 1).
f. 125r, Charlemagne defeating the Duke of Aquitaine (Charlemagne, book 1, 2).
f. 126r, Charlemagne taking hostages of Tassilo of Bavaria (Charlemagne, book 1, 3).
f. 127v, Battles in Aquitaine (Charlemagne, book 1, 4).
f. 129r, Saxon raids; Fritzlar chapel miraculously saved from fire by angels (Charlemagne, book 1, 5).
f. 130v, Charlemagne holding a parliament; Saxons submitting to the emperor; the Saxons baptised (Charlemagne, book 1, 6).
f. 131v, Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria, paying homage to Charlemagne (Charlemagne, book 1, 7).
f. 132r, The Pope saying mass before Charlemagne and Hildegarde: the Pope crowning the sons of Charlemagne and Hildegarde (Charlemagne, book 1, 7).
f. 133r, Charlemagne killing surrendered Saxons (Charlemagne, book 1, 8).
f. 133v, Charlemagne defeating Saxons (Charlemagne, book 1, 8).
f. 134v, Charlemagne at mass; Charlemagne defeating the Bretons (Charlemagne, book 1, 9).
f. 135v, Charlemagne dividing his army into three parts; surrender of Tassilo (Charlemagne, book 1, 10).
f. 137r, Charlemagne dividing his army into two parts: Charlemagne taking two castles (Charlemagne, book 1, 11).
f. 138v, Charlemagne holding a parliament; Charlemagne burning a town in Saxony; Constantine blinded (Charlemagne, book 1, 12).
f. 140r, Pope Leo III maltreated; Pope Leo III in a sanctuary; Pope Leo III rescued by Winigisius (Charlemagne, book 1, 13).
f. 141v, Charlemagne crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III (Charlemagne, book 2, 1).
f. 143r, Charlemagne moving the Saxons from beyond the Elbe; Pope Leo III celebrating a mass before Charlemagne (Charlemagne, book 2, 2).
f. 144r, Charlemagne watching eclipses and the transit of Mercury; plate and tents being given to Charlemagne (Charlemagne, book 2, 3).
f. 145v, Eardwulf, deposed King of Northumbria, visiting Charlemagne; Charlemagbe sending envoys with Eardwulf to Rome (Charlemagne, book 2, 4).
f. 147r, Charlemagne receiving an envoy from Amor of Saragossa; parley; voyage of Pepin (Charlemagne, book 2, 5).
f. 149r, Peace with Denmark; Charlemagne dividing his army in three parts (Charlemagne, book 2, 6).
f. 149v, Charlemagne ordering the composition of a lectionary; the angel shows St John the river of crystal; Charlemagne crowning his son (Charlemagne, book 2, 7).
f. 151r, Charlemagne building the Aix-la-Chapelle cathedral (Charlemagne, book 3, 1).
f. 151v, Charlemagne’s bridge over the Rhine burnt; Charlemagne giving orders to a bishop (Charlemagne, book 3, 1).
f. 152v, Charlemagne receiving pilgrims (Charlemagne, book 3, 2).
f. 153v, Charlemagne receiving Clement Scotus and his companion; Charlemagne granting the Tours abbey to Alcuin (Charlemagne, book 3, 3).
f. 155r, Saracens sacking Jerusalem; the patriarch before Constantine; Constantine sending envoys to Charlemagne (Charlemagne, book 3, 4).
f. 156v Charlemagne receiving the envoys of Constantine; Turpin reading the letter in public (Charlemagne, book 3, 5).
f. 157v, The Emperors Charlemagne and Constantine; Jerusalem recovered (Charlemagne, book 3, 6).
f. 158v, Charlemagne taking counsel (Charlemagne, book 3, 7).
f. 159r, The Crown of Thorns divided for Charlemagne (Charlemagne, book 3, 7).
f. 160r, The wood of the Holy Cross divided for Charlemagne (Charlemagne, book 3, 8).
f. 161r, The nail from the Holy Cross healing the sick (Charlemagne, book 3, 9).
f. 161v, Return of Charlemagne from the East (Charlemagne, book 3, 10).
f. 162v, The sick kneeling before the relics (Charlemagne, book 3, 11).
f. 163r, Exhibition of relics by Charlemagne at the fair of Lendit at St Denis (Charlemagne, book 3, 12).
f. 165r, Charlemagne's vision of the Milky Way; Charlemagne’s vision of St James (Charlemagne, book 4, 1).
f. 166r, Charlemagne opening the way to Spain (Charlemagne, book 4, 2).
f. 167r, Agolant and his Moors attack a castle (Charlemagne, book 4, 3).
f. 168v, Charlemagne besieging Agolant in Agen (Charlemagne, book 4, 4).
f. 170r, Charlemagne and his court in a camp (Charlemagne, book 4, 5).
ff. 171r, 171v, Battle-scenes (Charlemagne, book 4, 6).
f. 172v, Prowess of the giant Ferragut; Roland fighting with Ferragut; Roland and Ferragut declaring truce (Charlemagne, book 4, 7).
f. 173r, Roland parleying with Ferragut; Roland slaying Ferragus (Charlemagne, book 4, 8).
f. 174v, Battle; Charlemagne taking the standard (Charlemagne, book 4, 9).
f. 175v, Charlemagne giving privileges to Compostella: Charlemagne worshiping St James (Charlemagne, book 4, 10).
f. 177r, Ganelon before Marsile and Baligans; Ganelon and Baligans before Charlemagne (Charlemagne, book 5, 1).
f. 178r, Battle of Roncevaux (Charlemagne, book 5, 2).
f. 178v, Roland binding his prisoner; a battle (Charlemagne, book 5, 2).
f. 179v, Death of Roland in the presence of his brothers (Charlemagne, book 5, 3).
f. 180v, Baldwin and Turpin bringing the news of Roland’s death to Charlemagne; Charlemagne mourning over Roland (Charlemagne, book 5, 4).
f. 181v, Funeral of Roland; punishment of Ganclon (Charlemagne, book 5, 5).
ff. 182r, 182v, Burial of the dead (Charlemagne, book 5, 6).
f. 183r, Charlemagne holding council at St Denis; Charlemagne praying to St Denis (Charlemagne, book 5, 7).
f. 185, Roland at Grenoble receiving a messenger; Roland praying in a tent; slaughter of the inhabitants of Grenoble (Charlemagne, book 5, 9).
f. 185v, Raid of the Mansur of Cordova; Mansur plundering St James; punishment of the Saracens (Charlemagne, book 5, 10).
f. 197v, Hildegarde and her children; birth of Louis the Pious (Louis le Débonnaire): Louis’s baptism (Louis the Pious, book 1).
f. 189r, Meeting of a king and Charlemagne; Charlemagne leaving Louis the Pious with queen Fastrade (Louis the Pious, book 2).
f. 189v, Charlemagne holding council at Toulouse; Louis’s betrothal to Ermengarde; marriage of Louis and Ermengarde; coronation of Louis (Louis the Pious, book 3).
f. 190v, Louis dividing his army into three parts; surrender of Barcelona; priests entering the city (Louis the Pious, book 4).
f. 192r, Passage of the Ebro; a bather discovering horse dung (Louis the Pious, book 5).
f. 193r, Louis holding a parliament; Gascons summoned to yield; punishment and submission of the Gascons (Louis the Pious, book 6).
f. 194r, Charlemagne on his death-bed; news about Charlemagne’s death brought to Theodulph and Louis; meeting of Theodulph and Louis (Louis the Pious, book 7).
f. 195v, Messengers between Louis and Constantinople; Louis holding a parliament at Aix-la-Chapelle (Louis the Pious, book 8).
f. 197r, Occurrence of an accident to Louis on a stairway leading from his chapel; Louis holding council at Aix-la-Chapelle (Louis the Pious, book 10).
f. 198v, Louis ordering a prelate to be degraded and sheared; Bernard blinded; death of Marcoman of Brittany (Louis the Pious, book 11).
f. 199v, Duke Borna complaining to Louis; siege of a castle (Louis the Pious, book 12).
f. 201r, Lothaire receiving an envoy; Pope Paschasius crowning Lothaire; Drogo chosen as bishop (Louis the Pious, book 13).
f. 202v, Louis holding a parliament; submission of Bretons (Louis the Pious, book 14).
f. 203v, Louis receiving a gift of plate: abbot Hildiun of St Denis (depicted as a saint) transferring the relics of Peter, Paul, and Marcellus (Louis the Pious, book 15).
f. 205r, Louis sending traitors to prison (Louis the Pious, book 16).
f. 206v, Purgation of Judith; traitors pardoned (Louis the Pious, book 17).
f. 207v, Louis's sons setting Pope Gregory against Louis (Louis the Pious, book 18).
f. 208r, Meeting of Louis and Pope Gregory (Louis the Pious, book 18).
f. 209v, Lothaire taking Louis from Soissons; envoys from Constantinople (Louis the Pious, book 19).
f. 211r, Odo; burning of Châlons (Louis the Pious, book 20).
f. 212v, Suing for peace; sack of a town (Louis the Pious, book 21).
f. 214r Louis at mass; a comet; Louis questioning the astronomer (Louis the Pious, book 22).
f. 215v, Louis receiving messengers; Louis holding a parliament (Louis the Pious, book 23).
f. 217r, Louis on his sickbed ordering an inventory of treasure to be made and giving his crown and sword to Lothaire (Louis the Pious, book 24).
f. 219r, Battle of Fontenoy (Charles the Bald, book 1).
f. 220r, Charles the Bald, setting out on a journey, met by messengers (Charles the Bald, book 2).
f. 221v, Louis le German sending a messenger (Charles the Bald, book 3).
f. 222v, Louis’s messengers riding (Charles the Bald, book 3).
f. 223r, Charles the Bald leaving Aix-la-Chapelle: marriage of Charles and Richilda (Charles the Bald, book 4).
f. 224r, Louis the German on his sickbed receiving messengers from the Pope: Ratislaus blinded (Charles the Bald, book 5).
f. 225v, Louis the German dictating an oath to his sons; Carloman, son of Charles the Bald, blinded (Charles the Bald, book 6).
f. 227v, Messengers between Louis the German and the Pope (Charles the Bald, book 7).
f. 229r, Carloman, son of Louis the German, making terms with Charles the Bald (Charles the Bald, book 8).
f. 230v, Emperor Charles the Bald at the Council of Metz (Charles the Bald, book 9).
f. 231v, Battle between Charles and Louis, his nephew (Charles the Bald, book 10).
f. 232v, Charles receiving two bishops as envoys (Charles the Bald, book 11).
f. 233v, Body of Charles taken to St Denis by two bishops in the presence of Louis the Stammerer (Charles the Bald, book 12).
f. 234r, Charles appearing to a monk of St Denis in a vision (Charles the Bald, book 13).
f. 235v, Charles and monks; Charles giving a town to St Denis (Charles the Bald, book 14).
f. 237v, Louis the Stammerer (Louis le Bègue) receiving the sword and sceptre from Empress Richilda; coronation of Louis the Stammerer (Louis the Stammerer, book 1).
f. 239r, The Pope refuses to crown the Queen; assembly of the Pope and prelates at Troyes (Louis the Stammerer, book 2).
f. 240r, Louis the Stammerer making peace with his cousin Louis, son of Louis the German (Louis the Stammerer, book 3).
f. 241r, Louis the Stammerer on his deathbed: regalia entrusted to Thierry (Louis the Stammerer, book 4).
f. 242r, Coronation of Carloman and Louis III (Louis the Stammerer, book 5).
f. 243v, Carloman returning from Vienne; Carloman defeating the Normans (Louis the Stammerer, book 6).
f. 244v, Translation of saints' relics (Louis the Stammerer, book 7, but refers to book 6).
f. 245r, Onslaught of the Normans (Louis the Stammerer, book 7).
f. 245v, Flight of Louis, son of Charles the Simple, and his mother; Normans burning a church; St Benedict appearing to Sigillophus (Charles the Simple, book 1).
f. 247r, Fight with Normans: Charles the Simple giving his daughter to Rollo (Charles the Simple, book 2).
f. 248r, Armies in the sky and on earth; Charles the Simple imprisoned: Raoul crowned (Charles the Simple, book 3, Raoul, book 1).
f. 249r, Duke William defeating a mutiny in camp (Raoul, book 2).
f. 249v, Red hosts seen in the sky; coronation of Louis IV (Louis d'Outremer) (Louis IV, book 1).
f. 250v, Duke William refusing the monks' charity; William attacked by a boar; William accepting the monks’ gift; William restoring Jumièges (Louis IV, book 2).
f. 251v, Murder of Duke William (Louis IV, book 2).
f. 252r, Louis IV taking possession of the young Duke Richard (Louis IV, book 3).
f. 253r, Louis IV receiving a messenger; surrender of Rouen (Louis IV, book 4).
f. 253v, Danes defeating the French (Louis IV, book 5).
f. 255r, Ansegisus expelled from the see of Troyes (Lothaire, book 1).
f. 255v, Duke Richard distributing gifts to his messengers (Lothaire, book 2, but relating to book 1).
f. 256r, Lothaire meeting Duke Richard at the Eaune (Lothaire, book 2).
f. 256v, Raid of the Danes (Lothaire, book 3).
f. 257v, Lothaire driving Otho's army into the Aisne (Louis V, book 1 but relating to Lothaire, book 3).
f. 257v, Coronation of Louis V, son of Lothaire (Charles, book 1, but relating to Louis V, book 1).
f. 258r, Hugh Capet’s forces capturing Charles, brother of Lothaire, and his wife (Charles, book 1).
f. 258v Council of Reims (Hugh Capet, book 1).
f. 259r, Siege of Melun (Robert, book 1).
f. 259v, Deathbed of Duke Richard of Normandy (Robert, book 2).
f. 260v, Odo, count of Chartres, defeated; Odo disguising himself as a shepherd (Robert, book 3).
f. 262r, Surrender of Auxerre; siege of Avalon (Robert, book 4).
f. 263v, Henry I of France asking aid of Duke Robert; horses presented to King Henry; siege of a castle (Henry I, book 1).
f. 265v, Burning of Argentan; battle of Val-es-Dunes; surrender of a castle (Henry I, book 2).
f. 266v, Duke William the Bastard defeating the French; William sending a herald to Henry I (Henry I, book 3).
f. 267r, Henry I sending a protest to the Emperor concerning St Denis (Henry I, book 4).
f. 268v, The Abbot of St Denis sending messengers (Henry I, book 5).
f. 269v, Henry I sending a bishop; marriage of Henry and Anne (Henry I, book 6).
f. 270r, Fulk of Anjou making terms with Philip I; Fulk defeating his brother Geoffrey; Fulk imprisoning Geoffrey (Philip I, book 1).
f. 271r, Bertha in prison: Bertrande and Fulk of Anjou (Philip I, book 2).
f. 272r, Death of William Rufus (Philip I, book 3).
f. 272v, Battle; complaint of Hughes de Clermont: siege of Clermont (Philip I, book 4).
f. 273v, Fight before a castle (Philip I, book 5).
f. 274v, Disputes at Château Montaigu (Philip I, book 6).
f. 275v, Philip I giving Montlehéry to Louis (Philip I, book 7).
f. 276r, Attack on Montlehéry (Philip I, book 8).
f. 276v, Robert Giscard and Boémond defeating two emperors in one day (Philip I, book 9).
f. 277v, Pope Paschasius meeting Abbot Suger (Philip I, book 10).
f. 278v, Imperial envoys and Pope Paschasius (Philip I, book 11).
f. 279r, The Pope celebrating the Eucharist for the Emperor (Philip I, book 12).
f. 280v, Siege of Gournay-sur-Marne (Philip I, book 13).
f. 282r, Prowess of Louis VI (Louis le Gros) (Philip I, book 14).
f. 282v, Funeral of Philip I (Philip I, book 15).
f. 284r, Coronation of Louis VI (Louis VI, book 1).
f. 284v, Imprisonment of Odo of Corbeil (Louis VI, book 2).
f. 286r, Henry I of England receiving French envoys near Gisors (Louis VI, book 3).
f. 298r, Murder of Guy de Roche- Guyon (Louis VI, book 4).
f. 289v, Louis VI entering Meun (Louis VI, book 5).
f. 290r, Countess of Chartres appealing to Louis for help (Louis VI, book 6).
f. 291r, Siege of Puisat (Louis VI, book 7).
f. 292r, Louis VI defeating Count Thiébaud (Louis VI, book 8).
f. 293r, Bouchard, count of Corbeil taking his spear from his countess (Louis VI, book 9).
f. 294v, Louis defeating Thiébaud's men (Louis VI, book 10).
f. 295v, Count Thiébaud surrendering to Louis (Louis VI, book 11).
f. 296v, Louis taking Crécy or Nouvion (Louis VI, book 12).
f. 298r, Louis VI with his army; battle with Steven; burning of Gasny by the French (Louis VI, book 13).
f. 299r, Henry I of England sleeping with the royal arms of France on his shield (Louis VI, book 14). A marginal annotation reading 'angleter[r]e', intended as a correction of the depiction of the King's arms.
f. 300v, Louis VI riding to meet Pope Gelasius; funeral of Gelasius (Louis VI, book 15).
f. 301v, Suger before Pope Calixtus (Louis VI, book 16).
f. 302v, Louis VI receiving news of imperial invasion; Louis sending a letter; Louis praying to St Denis (Louis VI, book 17).
f. 303v, Louis VI giving orders to his army (Louis VI, book 18).
f. 304v, Bishop of Clermont complaining to Louis VI; Louis attacking Clermont (Louis VI, book 19).
f. 306r, Murder of Charles, count of Flanders (Louis VI, book 20).
f. 306r, Murderers of Charles, count of Flanders hanged (Louis VI, book 20).
f. 307v, Siege of Coucy (Louis VI, book 21).
f. 308r, Schism of cardinals (Louis VI, book 22).
f. 309r, Philip, son of Louis VI, killed by a boar (Louis VI, book 23).
f. 310v, Louis VI on his sickbed (Louis VI, book 24).
f. 311r, Louis VI visiting St Denis (Louis VI, book 25).
f. 312v, Louis VII (Louis le Jeune) returning to Paris from Aquitaine (Louis VII, book 1).
f. 313v, William, Duke of Aquitaine, on his deathbed (Louis VII, book 2).
f. 314r, Louis VII leading crusaders (Louis VII, book 3).
f. 316v, Crusaders in flight in a wood (Louis VII, book 7).
f. 317r, Funeral of Guy de Ponthieu (Louis VII, book 8).
f. 317v, Division of crusading army when crossing a mountain (Louis VII, book 9).
f. 318v, Louis VII arriving to the camp of the advance guard (Louis VII, book 10).
f. 319r, Louis VII marching to Antioch (Louis VII, book 11).
f. 320r, Council of princes in Jerusalem (Louis VII, book 13).
f. 321r, Emperor Conrad and his council; Louis VII and his council (Louis VII, book 14).
f. 321v, Crusaders approaching Damascus (Louis VII, book 15).
f. 322r, Siege of Damascus (Louis VII, book 16).
f. 322v, Attempts to destroy the walls of Damascus; Emperor Conrad slaying a Turk (Louis VII, book 17).
f. 323r, Encampment before Damascus (Louis VII, book 18).
f. 325r, Emperor Conrad sailing away: Louis VII taking leave (Louis VII, book 21).
f. 325v, Divorce of Louis VII (Louis VII, book 23).
f. 326v, Coronation of Pope Alexander III (Louis VII, book 25).
f. 327v, The Bishop of Clermont complaining to Louis VII; Louis defeating the count of Clermont (Louis VII, book 26).
f. 327v, The count of Châlons attacking the monks of Cluny (Louis VII, book 27).
f. 328v, The abbey of Vézelay attacked and a complaint made to Louis VII (Louis VII, book 28).
f. 329v, Louis VII praying for a son; birth of Philip Augustus (Philip Augustus, book 1, 1).
f. 330v, Louis VII holding a council; Philip on a boar hunt (Philip Augustus, book 1, 2).
f. 331r, Coronation of Philip Augustus (Philip Augustus, book 1, 3).
f. 332v, Philip Augustus riding to St Denis; Philip and Isabel at mass after their marriage (Philip Augustus, book 1, 5).
f. 333v, Banishment of Jews (Philip Augustus, book 1, 6).
f. 334r, Destruction of synagogues (Philip Augustus, book 1, 8).
f. 334v, Philip Augustus opening a market (Philip Augustus, book 1. 9).
f. 335v, Durand relates his vision (Philip Augustus, book 1, 10).
f. 337r, Philip Augustus visited by the Patriarch of Jerusalem and Master of the Temple (Philip Augustus, book 1, 12).
f. 338r, Philip receiving petitions from abbeys of Burgundy (Philip Augustus, book 1, 14).
f. 340r, Voyage of Rollo; Rollo attacking Rouen (Philip Augustus, book 1, 17).
f. 340v, Philip Augustus visiting St Denis; resignation of Abbot William (Philip Augustus, book 1, 18).
f. 341r, Philip Augustus receiving an envoy; Philip giving his sister Margaret in marriage to the King of Hungary (Philip Augustus, book 1, 19).
f. 343v, Philip Augustus sending an envoy to Henry II of England; Henry II and Margaret receiving the envoy (Philip Augustus, book 1, 22).
f. 344v, Philip Augustus receiving an envoy; Philip Augustus and Henry II taking the cross (Philip Augustus, book 1, 23).
f. 345r, Philip Augustus addressing the clergy (Philip Augustus, book 1, 24).
f. 345v, Siege engine at Montrichard (Philip Augustus, book 1, 25).
f. 347r, Attack on Le Mans; Philip Augustus fording the Loire to attack Tours (Philip Augustus, book 2, 1).
f. 347v, Coronation of Richard I; burning of Gisors (Philip Augustus, book 2, 2).
f. 348v, Philip Augustus dictating his will; Philip’s army (Philip Augustus, book 2, 3).
f. 350r, Meeting of Philip Augustus and Tancred (Philip Augustus, book 2, 4).
f. 350v, Philip Augustus arriving at Acre (Philip Augustus, book 2, 5).
f. 351v, Louis, Philip Augustus's son, on his sickbed; procession with relics from St Denis (Philip Augustus, book 2, 6).
f. 352v, Capture of Acre (Philip Augustus, book 2, 7).
f. 353v, Philip Augustus at St Denis, with an exhibition of relics (Philip Augustus, book 2, 8).
f. 354r, Philip receiving messengers (Philip Augustus, book 2, 9).
f. 355r, Siege of Gisors (Philip Augustus, book 2, 10).
f. 356r, Philip Augustus assembling his army; attack on Rouen (Philip Augustus, book 2, 11).
f. 356v, Battle between the French and English armies (Philip Augustus, book 2, 12).
f. 357v, Battle of Arques (Philip Augustus, book 2, 13).
f. 358v, Attack on a town (Philip Augustus, book 2, 14).
f. 360r, Battle between the French and English armies before Gisors (Philip Augustus, book 2, 15).
f. 361r, Peter of Capua mediating between Philip Augustus and Richard I of England (Philip Augustus, book 2, 17).
f. 361v, Arthur of Brittany doing homage to Philip Augustus (Philip Augustus, book 2, 18).
f. 362r, Philip Augustus and King John of England making peace (Philip Augustus, book 2, 19).
f. 362v, King Phillip II of France receiving King John with honour during his visit to France (Philip Augustus, book 2, 20).
f. 363v, Death of Andronicus (Philip Augustus, book 2, 21).
f. 364v, The Pope sending legates; a legate before Philip Augustus (Philip Augustus, book 2, 22).
f. 365v, Submission of the Normans; Philip Augustus attacking Rouen (Philip Augustus, book 2, 23).
f. 366r, Siege of Loches (Philip Augustus, book 2, 24).
f. 367r, Fighting in Aquitaine (Philip Augustus, book 2, 25).
f. 368v, Amaury de Bene lecturing at Paris; Amaury retracting before the Pope (Philip Augustus, book 3, 1).
f. 369v, Philip Augustus fighting with the Count of Auvergne (Philip Augustus, book 3, 2).
f. 370v, Treaty with the Emperor renewed (Philip Augustus, book 3, 3).
f. 371v, Attack on a castle (Philip Augustus, book 3, 4).
f. 372v, Fighting in Lombardy (Philip Augustus, book 3, 5).
f. 373r, Philip Augustus awaiting his fleet (Philip Augustus, book 3, 6).
f. 373v, King John of England attacking a castle (Philip Augustus, book 3, 7).
f. 374v, The Pope excommunicating the Albigenses; the crusade against the Albigenses (Philip Augustus, book 3, 8).
f. 375r, Siege (Philip Augustus, book 3, 9).
f. 376v, Armies of Philip Augustus and John of England approaching each other (Philip Augustus, book 3, 10).
f. 377r, French army on the march to Bouvines (Philip Augustus, book 3, 11).
f. 379r, Battle (Philip Augustus, book 3, 13).
f. 379v, Battle (Philip Augustus, book 3, 14).
ff. 380v, 381r, Encounters between horse and foot soldiers (Philip Augustus, book 3, 15 and 16).
f. 381v, Flight of imperial army (Philip Augustus, book 3, 17).
f. 382v, Philip Augustus approaching Count Ferrand (Philip Augustus, book 3, 18).
f. 383r, Prisoner before Philip Augustus (Philip Augustus, book 3, 19).
f. 384r, Battle; Philip Augustus returning to Paris; Count Ferrand carried as a prisoner (Philip Augustus, book 3, 20).
f. 385r, Battle with King John of England: Louis on the march (Philip Augustus, book 3, 22).
f. 386r, Bishops at the funeral of Philip Augustus (Philip Augustus, book 3, 24).
f. 386v, Coronation of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile (Louis VIII, book 1).
f. 368r, Louis VIII holding a parliament: siege engine at Rochelle (Louis VIII, book 2).
f. 388v, Rochelle attacked from the sea (Louis VIII, book 3).
f. 389v, Siege of Avignon (Louis VIII, book 4).
f. 390v, Coronation of Louis IX; siege of a castle (Saint Louis, book 1).
f. 391v, Battle (Saint Louis, book 2).
f. 392v, Surrender of a castle (Saint Louis, book 3).
f. 393r, Restoration of St Denis; monks holding the ‘saint clou’ (Saint Louis, book 4).
f. 394r, Count Thiébaud of Champagne marching against Louis IX; Louis forgiving Thiébaud (Saint Louis, book 5).
f. 395r, Louis receiving the Crown of Thorns and other relics from Constantinople (Saint Louis, book 6).
f. 396r, Attack on a city on crusade (Saint Louis, book 7).
f. 397r, Louis IX sending an envoy; prelates in prison (Saint Louis, book 8).
f. 398r, Louis IX attacking the Count of la Marche (Saint Louis, book 9).
f. 399r, Battle with the English (Saint Louis, book 10).
f. 400r, Siege of a castle by the Tartars (Saint Louis, book 10).
f. 401r, Enthronement of Pope Innocent IV (Saint Louis, book 11).
f. 402r, Council of Lyons (Saint Louis, book 12).
f. 403r, The Pope sending Odo to Paris; nobles taking the cross (Saint Louis, book 12).
f. 403v, Louis IX visiting the Pope (Saint Louis, book 13).
f. 404v, Louis IX departing on his first crusade (Saint Louis, book 14).
f. 405r, Louis IX receiving envoys (Saint Louis, book 15).
f. 406r The King of Cyprus giving Louis a letter (Saint Louis, book 16).
f. 407r, Louis IX conversing with envoys (Saint Louis, book 17).
f. 407v, Louis IX and the King of Cyprus dismissing the envoys (Saint Louis, book 18).
f. 408v, Louis IX receiving Armenian envoys (Saint Louis, book 19).
f. 409v, Attack on Damietta (Saint Louis, book 20).
f. 410v, Capture of Damietta (Saint Louis, book 21).
f. 411r, Louis IX sailing from Damietta; battle (Saint Louis, book 22).
f. 412r, Battle-scene: deaths from pestilence (Saint Louis, book 23).
f. 413r, Louis IX sick and a captive (Saint Louis, book 24).
f. 414r, Louis IX leaving Damietta; Louis voyaging; Louis arriving at Acre (Saint Louis, book 25).
f. 415v, Louis IX building a fortress; Louis going on pilgrimage to Nazareth (Saint Louis, book 26).
f. 416v, Massacre at Sidon; Louis IX burring the dead (Saint Louis, book 27).
f. 417r, Louis IX sailing for France (Saint Louis, book 28).
f. 418r, William, King of the Romans, killed (Saint Louis, book 28).
f. 418v, Louis IX making officers swear to his établissements (Saint Louis, book 29).
f. 420v, Punishment of a blasphemer; children caught in the forest of Coucy (Saint Louis, book 30).
f. 422r, Louis IX washing poor men's feet; Louis feeding the poor (Saint Louis, book 32).
f. 423r, Louis IX at confession; Louis receiving discipline (Saint Louis, book 34).
f. 423v, Louis IX feeding the poor (two scenes) (Saint Louis, book 35).
f. 424v, Louis IX curing scrofula (Saint Louis, book 37).
f. 425r, Charles of Anjou addressing the men of Marseilles; Charles’s army (Saint Louis, book 38).
f. 426r, Henry III of England visiting Louis IX; Henry III at St Denis (Saint Louis, book 39).
f. 426v, Louis IX receiving a letter about the Holy Land (Saint Louis, book 39).
f. 427r, Attack of the Tartars in the Holy Land (Saint Louis, book 39).
f. 427v, Civil war in England (Saint Louis, book 40).
f. 429v, Charles of Anjou sailing for Rome; the Pope crowning Charles (Saint Louis, book 42).
f. 430v, Charles of Anjou driving back Manfred (Saint Louis, book 43).
f. 431r, Battle of Benevento (Saint Louis, book 44). f. 432r, Defeat of Manfred (Saint Louis, book 45).
f. 433r, Charles of Anjou fighting with Conradin (Saint Louis, book 46).
f. 433v, Armies divided by a river (Saint Louis, book 47).
f. 434v, Charles of Anjou defeating Henry of Spain (Saint Louis, book 48).
f. 436r, Conradin and Henry brought prisoners to Charles of Anjou (Saint Louis, book 49).
f. 436v, Cardinal Simon preaching a crusade before Louis IX (Saint Louis, book 50).
f. 437v, Louis IX sailing on his second crusade (Saint Louis, book 51).
f. 438v, Landing at Cagliari; sick men carried ashore (Saint Louis, book 52).
f. 439v, Council on board ship (Saint Louis, book 54).
f. 440v, Louis IX landing at Tunis; French knights cut off by Saracens in a tower (Saint Louis, book 55).
f. 441r, Capture of Carthage (Saint Louis, book 56).
f. 442r, Treacherous attack by Saracens (Saint Louis, book 57).
f. 442v, Entrenching the camp (Saint Louis, book 57).
f. 443v, Louis IX instructing his son (Saint Louis, book 58).
f. 444v, Louis IX on his deathbed (Saint Louis, book 59).
- Collection Area:
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Royal MS 16 G VI : Les Grandes chroniques de France - Hierarchy:
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A parchment codex, 447 folios.
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- Languages:
- French
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- Start Date:
- 1332
- End Date:
- 1350
- Date Range:
- 1332-1350
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 390 x 280 mm (text space: 255 x 190 mm).
Foliation: ff. iii + 447 + iii (all unfoliated flyleaves are modern paper leaves; ff. 246 and 247 are medieval parchment flyleaves). Foliation in red, beginning on f. 3r, referred to the list of contents (ff. 1v-2r), added in the late 14th century.
Collation: i2, ii-xxxvii12 (ff. 99 and 243 are substituted folios), xxxviii12+1; catchwords, correction signs at the end of gatherings (e.g. f. 422v).
Layout: Written in two columns of 42 lines.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Royal library binding of brown leather with the Royal arms and a date of 1757; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Paris).
Provenance:
John (John the Good) (b. 1319, d. 1364), duke of Normandy (1332-1350), and king of France as John II (1350-1364), probably made for him before his accession to the throne: his arms as duke of Normandy (f. 3r); and inscription visible under ultraviolet light 'Jehan Ce rommant est monss. le Duc' (f. 445v). However, it is not listed in any surviving inventories of the Lourvre or in descriptions of John the Good's possessions at his capture at Poitiers in 1356.
Sir John Chandos (d. 1428), landowner and administrator, grandson of Roger, baron Chandos (d. 1353), the lord of the manor of Fownhope, co. Hereford (see Rundle 2004).
Humfrey [or Humphrey of Lancaster], duke of Gloucester (b. 1390, d. 1447), acquired by him from the executors of Sir John Chandos: inscribed, 'Cest livre est a moy Homfrey / Duc de Gloucestre du don / les exsecuteurs le seigneir de Faunhope' (f. 445r).
Inscribed 'iiiixx lib', 15th century (f. 446r).
Inscribed 'qui meix amoient a morir que languir en cest dolour, quod Jane Sanford', 15th century (f. 447r).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 60; and in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 13v.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
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Léopold Delisle, 'Notes sur quelques manuscrits du Musée britannique’, Mémoires de la société de l'histoire de Paris, 4 (1877), 183-238 (pp. 191-212).
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, pp. 209-12.
Les Grandes Chroniques de France, ed. by J. Viard, 10 vols (Paris: Socitété de l'Histoire de France, 1920-1953), X, pp. 1-188 [edition of Royal 16 G VI].
Pamela Wynn Reeves, 'The Guildhall Chronicles of the Kings of France', The Guildhall Miscellany, 2 (1953), 3-15 (p. 10).
R. E. J. Weber, 'De bodebus als onderscheidingsteken van de lopende bode: nadere conclusies', Overdruk uit Het PTT bedrijf, 8: 4 (1964) 179-90 (p. 188, n. 24).
Roberto Weiss, 'Portrait of a Bibliophile XI: Humfrey, duke of Gloucester d. 1447', The Book Collector, 13 (1964), 161-70 (p. 169).
R. E. J. Weber, The Messenger-Box as a distinctive of the Foot-Messenger', The Antiquaries Journal, 46 (1966), 88-101 (p. 95, n. 2).
Rita Lejeune and Jacques Stiennon, La légende de Roland dans l’art du Moyen-Âge (Brussels: Editions de l’Arcade, 1966), pp. 281-87.
D. J. A. Ross, 'The Iconography of Roland', Medium Aevum, 37 (1968), 46-65 (pp. 48, 62).
Les fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais 1981-1982 (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1981), p. 299 [exhibition catalogue].
Claudine Albertine Chavannes-Mazel, 'The Miroir Historiale of Jean le Bon: the Leiden Manuscript and its Related Copies', 2 vols (Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Leiden, 1988), I, p. 57; II, figs 45, 46, 57.
Europa und der Orient: 800-1900, ed. by Gereon Sievernich and Hendrik Budde (Berline: Bertelsmann Lexikon, 1989), no. 3/8 [exhibition catalogue].
Jean Fouquet: Die Bilder der Grandes Chroniques de France, ed. by François Avril, Marie-Thérèse Gousset, and Bernard Guenée (Graz: Akademishe Druck, 1987), p. 110.
Lucy Freeman Sandler, 'Notes for the Illuminator: The Case of the Omne bonum', The Art Bulletin, 71 (1989), 551-64 (p. 560, n. 67).
Anne D. Hedeman, The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), pp. 51-73, 213-21.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H1.58, p. xxiv.
Pamela Porter, Medieval Warfare in Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 48, 52-53.
Carra Ferguson O'Meara, Monarchy and Consent: The Coronation Book of Charles V of France: British Library MS Tiberius B VIII (London: Harvey Miller, 2001), p. 104.
James P. Carley, The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives, preface by David Starkey (London: British Library, 2004), pl. 30.
Sophie Page, Magic in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2004), pp. 14-15, pl. 13.
David Rundle, 'Habits of Manuscript-Collecting: the Dispersals of the Library of Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester', in Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity, ed. by James Raven (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 106-24 (pp. 110-11; 120-21, n. 21, n. 22).
Allesandra Petrina, Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-century England: The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (Leiden: Brill, 2004), pp 193-94.
Mary and Richard Rouse, ‘A Cat Can Look at a King: An Illustrated Episode in the Grandes Chroniques’, in Tributes to Jonathan J. G. Alexander: The Making and Meaning of Illuminated Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts, Art & Architecture, ed. by Susan L'Engle and Gerald B. Guest (London: Harvey Miller, 2006), pp. 429-41 (p. 433).
Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), p. 67, pls 31, 58.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 49.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 136 [exhibition catalogue].
- Exhibitions:
- Magna Carta, (online), 10 March 2015-
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