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Summary Catalogue no.: 21779

Contents

Jean Wauquelin, Chroniques de Hainaut (translation of Jacques de Guise, Annales historiae illustrium principum Hannoniae) (fragments of books xvi-xxii).
Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: vi + 47 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 15.25 × 11.375 in.

Decoration

Fine miniatures.

Borders.

Initials. By the Master of Antoine Rollin. (Pächt and Alexander i. 388, pl. XXX-XXXI)

History

Origin: c. 1500 ; Flemish

Provenance and Acquisition

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 554

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (12 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent and leaf dimensions from Summary Catalogue.