Execution of Christian prisoners by Bayezid I after the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396. MS Fr 2646, attributed to the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book[1]A detail from the margin of a page
The Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse (BnF Fr 2643–6) is a heavily illustrated deluxe illuminated manuscript in four volumes, containing a French text of Froissart's Chronicles, written and illuminated in the first half of the 1470s in Bruges, Flanders, in modern Belgium. The text of Froissart's Chronicles is preserved in more than 150 manuscript copies. This is one of the most lavishly illuminated examples, commissioned by Louis of Gruuthuse, a Flemish nobleman and bibliophile. Several leading Flemish illuminators worked on the miniatures.
The four volumes are now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris as BnF, MSS Français 2643–6, and contain 110 miniatures of various sizes painted by some of the best artists of the day. The page size is approximately 44 × 33 cm, with miniatures of various sizes, from three-quarter–page and half-page, to historiated initials. The French text is in two columns and there is extensive marginal decoration of scrolling stems and other plant motifs, with some human and animal figures among them.
FroissartofLouisofGruuthuse (BnF Fr 2643–6) is a heavily illustrated deluxe illuminated manuscript in four volumes, containing a French text of Froissart's...
Louis de Bruges, Lord ofGruuthuse, Prince of Steenhuijs, Earl of Winchester (Dutch: Lodewijk van Brugge; c. 1427 – 24 November 1492), was a Flemish courtier...
Jean Froissart (Old and Middle French: Jehan; sometimes known as John Froissart in English; c. 1337 – c. 1405) was a French-speaking medieval author and...
heavily illustrated FroissartofLouisofGruuthuse (BnF Fr 2643-6) from the early 1470s, on which several of the leading illuminators of the day worked,...
with depictions of bears e.g. Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Rupert Bear, Paddington Bear and Winnie the Pooh. There is evidence of prehistoric bear...
illuminated manuscript copies of histories like the 15th century FroissartofLouisofGruuthuse (BnF Fr 2643-6), where most of the 112 miniatures show military...
15th-century Gruuthuse manuscript ofFroissart's Chronicles, held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, has a miniature of the event. Another edition of Froissart's...
was in the library ofLouis de Gruuthuse, now in the BnF in Paris, with a second nearly complete one in the library of the House of Nassau (now dispersed...
The Battle of Chiset also known as the Battle of Chizai or Battle of Chizé was fought at Chizé on 21 March 1373 between English and French forces during...
ISBN 0-1982-0622-4. Dodd, Gwilym, ed. (2000). The Reign of Richard II. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-1797-5. Froissart, Jean (1978). Brereton, Geoffrey (ed.). Chronicles...
ofLouis de Gruuthuse. Archaeological Museum Gentpoort Belfry City Hall on the Burg (Bruges) [nl] square Provinciaal Hof (Provincial Court) Manor of the...
III d'Aa ofGruuthuse Jean Le Maingre Joanot Martorell John Hawkwood Philip Riedesel zu Camberg Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard Raymond IV of Toulouse...
(Basic Library of Dutch Literature) comprises a list of 1000 works of Dutch Literature culturally important to the cultural heritage of the Low Countries...
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