1844 ILLUMINATED Froissart Chronicles Art 1st Medieval 100 Years’ War Chivalry

1844 ILLUMINATED Froissart Chronicles Art 1^st Medieval 100 Years’ War Chivalry

Beautiful color engravings of Froissart’s “Chronicle”!

The ‘Chronicles’ of Jean Froissart have continually been perceived as an important work on medieval history for centuries since its inception in the 14^th-century. While some of the subjects covered are repetitive and insignificant, many topics are of utmost importance including famous battles, deaths of monarchs, and the Catholic Church Great Schism.

According to Adams in the “Manual of Historical Literature,”

“Froissart might be called the great interviewer of the Middle Ages. He delighted in the minutest affairs of every cavalry skirmish, of the capture of every castle, and of every brave action and gallant deed. He lived from 1337 to about 1410, and wrote chiefly of contemporaneous events. The ‘Chronicles’ are universally considered as the most vivid and faithful picture we have of events in the fourteenth century.

Item number: #28245

Price: $795

FROISSART, Jean

Illuminated illustrations of Froissart

London: William Smith, 1844-45. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes in 1
  • 1 – vi, 387, [4]
    • 36 color and illuminated plates
  • 2 – [4], 2, v-vi, [5]-70
    • 36 color and illuminated plates
  • References: Adams, MHL 334-5
  • Provenance: Armorial bookplate – E. F. Webb
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~10in X 7.75in (25.5cm x 19.5cm)

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