Chronique Dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes (Volume I)

Shelfmark The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 71 A 14

Origin & date Northern France; c. 1460-1470

Physical description

Vellum, ff. 322, 405x300 (240x190) mm, 2 columns, 38 lines, littera hybrida (lettre bourguignonne). French. Binding: 18th-century brown leather, gilt, with coat of armes of Stadtholder William V

Illumination

1 two-column miniature (197x190 mm) with border decoration; 5 illustrations in the margin (1 coat of arms and 4 emblems); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 1v, 77r, 142v, 177r, etc.)

Provenance

Acquired by Philip of Cleves (d. 1528) before 1492 (coat of arms with label; over erasure); purchased in 1531 from his estate by Henri III, Count of Nassau (d. 1538); by inheritance to the Princes of Orange-Nassau, the later Stadtholders at The Hague; taken in 1795 to Paris by the French occupying forces and restituted in 1816 to the KB

Bibliography

The Hague 1984, p. 26 , fig. on p. 17. - Brandhorst & Broekhuijsen-Kruijer 1985, no. 425. - Inventaris 2 1993, p. 14. - Renting, Renting & Korteweg 1993, no. 1343. - The Hague 1998

All catalogue fields

Type	Manuscript book
NU	xx
Language of record	nl
Source project(s)	MSS; BYVANCK; KBMSS
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 71 A 14
Title (index form)	Chronique Dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes (Volume I)
Language of origin code	sn
Place of origin	Northern France
Date of origin	1460-1470
Related names/collections	Stadtholders, Coll.; Philip of Cleves; Henri III, Count of Nassau; Orange-Nassau, Princes of; Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale
Cataloguer's note	ask 5-00
Language	French
Language (Dutch)	Frans
Classification code	01 D
Geographic code	01 FR 01 01

4 illuminations catalogued

f. 1rmargin

Coat of arms and emblems of Philip of Cleves

Prologue to Volume I

1460©1480

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	138
Sequence (global)	8581
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 71 A 14
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 71 A 14
Type	manuscript illumination
Scene order key	1r
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 71A14_001R_RANDV.JPG

f. 1rmargin

Ecclesia and Synagoga (statues in framing architecture)

Volume I: Prologue

1475-1500

11P118 48C24

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	139
Sequence (global)	8835
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 71 A 14
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 71 A 14
Type	manuscript illumination
Scene order key	1r
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 71A14_001R_RANDV.JPG

f. 1rtwo-column miniature

Baudouin d'Avesnes holding his 'Trésor des histoires' (1st of 2)

Volume I: Prologue

1475-1500

48C91 49LL72 61B2(AVESNES, Baudoin d' [of Beaumont])21 83(BAUDOIN D'AVESNES, Tresor des Histoires)

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	140
Sequence (global)	8836
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 71 A 14
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 71 A 14
Image size (mm)	196x195
Type	manuscript illumination
Scene order key	1r _sc. 1(2)
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands

f. 1rtwo-column miniature

God as Salvator Mundi, making a blessing gesture and holding an orb, warns Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (2nd of 2)

Volume I: Prologue

1475-1500

11D324 11L5413 11P118 71A354

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	141
Sequence (global)	8837
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 71 A 14
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 71 A 14
Image size (mm)	196x195
Type	manuscript illumination
Scene order key	1r _sc. 2(2)
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands