Chronique Dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes (Volume II)

Shelfmark The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 71 A 15

Origin & date Hainaut, Follower of the Master of Antoine Rolin (illuminator); c. 1480-1490

Physical description

Vellum, ff. 219, 405x300 (240x185) mm, 2 columns, 38 lines, littera hybrida. French. Binding: 18th-century brown leather, gilt, with coat of arms of Stadtholder William V

Illumination

1 two-column miniature (202x183 mm) with border decoration; 2 illustrations in the margins (coats of arms); decorated initials on most pages

Provenance

Acquired by Philip of Cleves (d. 1528) after 1492 (coat of arms without 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 to Paris in 1795 by the French occupying forces and restituted in 1816 to the KB

Bibliography

Brandhorst & Broekhuijsen-Kruijer 1985, no. 426. - Inventaris 2 1993, p. 14. - Renting etc. 1993, no. 1343. - Korteweg 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 15
Title (index form)	Chronique Dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes (Volume II)
Language of origin code	sn
Place of origin	Hainaut
Date of origin	1480-1490
Illuminator / Master	Master of Antoine Rolin, follower
Related names/collections	Stadtholders, Coll.; Philip of Cleves; Henri III of Nassau; Orange-Nassau, Princes of; Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale
Cataloguer's note	ask 5-00, 12-00
Language	French
Language (Dutch)	Frans
Classification code	01 D
Geographic code	01 BE 02 WA HA

2 illuminations catalogued

f. Irtwo-column miniature

Discussion between the Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes; Majestas Domini (background); Mozes with the Tables of the Law (background); Sun (background)

1475-1500

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	142
Sequence (global)	8838
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 71 A 15
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 71 A 15
Image size (mm)	200x182
Type	manuscript illumination
Scene order key	0 001 Ir
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Illuminator / Master	Master of Antoine Rolin, follower

f. Irmargin

Coat of arms of Philip of Cleves (twice)

1480-1490

46A122(CLEVES, Philip of)1

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	143
Sequence (global)	8874
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 71 A 15
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 71 A 15
Type	manuscript illumination
Scene order key	0 001 Ir
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands