14th-century historical illustrated medieval chronicle from the Kingdom of Hungary
Chronicon Pictum
The first page of the Chronicon Pictum. King Louis I on the throne, below the Hungarian Anjou and the Hungarian coat of arms.
Author
Mark of Kalt
Country
Kingdom of Hungary
Language
Latin
Subjects
History of the Hungarians
Genre
Chronicle
Published
1358
Media type
Illuminated manuscript
Pages
146
The Chronicon Pictum or Illuminated Chronicle (Latin for "Illustrated Chronicle", Hungarian: Képes Krónika, Slovak: Obrázková kronika, German: Ungarische Bilderchronik, also referred to as Chronica Hungarorum, Chronicon Hungarie Pictum, Chronica Picta or Chronica de Gestis Hungarorum) is a medieval illustrated chronicle from the Kingdom of Hungary from the 14th century. It represents the artistic style of the royal court of King Louis I of Hungary. The codex is a unique source of art, medieval and cultural history.
The chronicle's full name is: Chronicon Pictum – Marci de Kalt Chronica de Gestis Hungarorum (Illustrated Chronicle – Mark of Kalt's Chronicle About the Deeds of the Hungarians).
The ChroniconPictum or Illuminated Chronicle (Latin for "Illustrated Chronicle", Hungarian: Képes Krónika, Slovak: Obrázková kronika, German: Ungarische...
Hungarian royal court like Gesta Hungarorum, Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum, ChroniconPictum, Buda Chronicle, Chronica Hungarorum claimed that the Árpád dynasty...
with Caucasian features, but dark complexion (e.g. in the Képes Krónika Pictum). Notably, all of these phenotypes can be traced to groups described in...
chronicler Mark of Kalt names seven captains who led seven tribes in the ChroniconPictum: Árpád, the first captain Szabolcs, the second captain Gyula, the third...
of the Hungarian medieval chronicle tradition (for example in the ChroniconPictum) that the Huns, i.e. the Hungarians coming out twice from Scythia,...
ChroniconPictum. Neither source is contemporary with Emese, as each was written centuries after her death (the Gesta around 1200 and the Chronicon Pictum...
rich country all the way to Hungary. — Mark of Kalt: ChroniconPictum According to the ChroniconPictum, King Stephen I of Hungary defeated Kean, a ruler...
Mary and chronicler of King Louis I of Hungary, known for his work ChroniconPictum, written in 1358 in Latin, with the last of the illuminations being...
call it Óbuda [Old Buda] and call it to this day. — Mark of Kalt: ChroniconPictum The Scythians are certainly an ancient people and the strength of Scythia...
invasions; he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 962. The 14th-century ChroniconPictum, written in Latin by Marci de Kalt, tried to picture Lehel as a Hungarian...
burg mentioned above, but in others as well. — Thietmar of Merseburg, Chronicon About a hundred years later, the chronicler Gallus Anonymus also made...
Amade Aba on 15 June 1312, on the Rozgony (today Rozhanovce) field. ChroniconPictum described it as the "most cruel battle since the Mongol invasion of...
royal court like the Gesta Hungarorum, Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum, ChroniconPictum, Buda Chronicle, Chronica Hungarorum claimed that the Árpád dynasty...
Attila, King of the Huns, Medes, Goths and Danes… — Mark of Kalt: ChroniconPictum Most historians agree that the legend of the wondrous hind preserved...
killed. According to the medieval Hungarian chronicler Mark of Kalt in ChroniconPictum: But Detre of Verona and the German princes plotted, as during his...
call it Óbuda [Old Buda] and call it to this day. — Mark of Kalt: ChroniconPictum The Scythians are certainly an ancient people and the strength of Scythia...
after their conversion to Christianity since the 11th century. The ChroniconPictum makes Hunor and Magor the two sons of Japheth, which was the son of...
historically they are not always authentic. Another chronicle is the ChroniconPictum ("Illustrated Chronicle"), which was written for King Louis the Great...
Synkellos, the Anonymi Bele regis notarii Gesta Hungarorum, and the ChroniconPictum. Turks. In Islamic tradition, the following authors identified Gog...
call it Óbuda [Old Buda] and call it to this day. — Mark of Kalt: ChroniconPictum The Scythians are certainly an ancient people and the strength of Scythia...
to Simon of Kéza's Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum and Mark of Kalt's ChroniconPictum: Anonymus, notary of Béla III, linked the Árpád dynasty to Attila,...