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French translation of the latin Grandes Chroniques de France.

Grandes Chroniques de Saint-Denis
copy from English occupied Calais, Northern France, 1487AD
British Library Ms Royal 20 E II.


Royal 20 E II f. 274v, Assault on Montlehery, while Count Guy's daughter is within.
[Probably by an English artist]

Royal 20 E II
ff. 1-289v
Title: Chroniques de France ou de Saint Denis (from 768 to 1108)
Origin: France, N. (Calais)
Date: 1487
Language: French
Script: Gothic cursive
Scribe: Hugues de Lembourg
Dimensions in mm: 525 x 360 (330 x 210)
Form: Parchment codex
Provenance: Thomas Thwaytes (d. 1503), chancellor of the Exchequer, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under Edward IV, and treasurer of Calais until 1490, arrested for treason in 1494, written for him in 1487 by Hugues de Lembourg, his servant, as a gift for Henry VI
Source: British Library catalogue

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