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Book 1, 'Chroniques' by Jean Froissart
copy from Flanders, Belgium, 1475 - 1485AD
Frontis: A combat between English and Scottish cavalry and infantry

Manuscript code: 15.4
Date: 1475 - 1485
Title: Jean Froissart, Chroniques, vol. 1
Content: Includes volume 1 of the 'Chroniques' of Froissart.
Origin: Southern Netherlands (Flanders).
Frontis: A combat between English and Scottish cavalry and infantry.
Source: Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, MS 15.4 (Book I)

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The manuscripts of the museum are described in the 'Catalogue des manuscrits' by Jan Denucé (1927). from Museum Plantin Moretus
M 15.4
Le 1 er volume (anc. N° 99).
F. 1: Grande miniature, représentant un combat de cavaliers et de fantassins anglais et écossais. Riche bordure de fleurs, rehaussées d’or. En bas du feuillet, deux écus, l’un d’or à la croix de gueules accompagnée de seize aleripons d’azur, qui est Montmorency, l’autre écartelé de Hornes, de Montmorency et de Meurs.

M 15.4
The first volume (formerly N ° 99).
F. 1: Large miniature, representing a combat between English and Scottish cavalry and infantry. Rich border of flowers, enhanced with gold. At the bottom of the folio, two shields, one of gold with a cross of Gules accompanied by sixteen azure aleripons, which is Montmorency, the other quartered by Hornes, Montmorency and Meurs

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FROISSART'S CHRONICLES
Jean Froissart was an historian of the 14th century who wrote in French. This copy of his Chronicles is a fine example of Flemish miniature art in the Middle Ages. The Chronicles are an important source of information about the Hundred Years War.

FROM EDWARD II TO RICHARD II
This copy of the Chronicles of the historian Jean Froissart is a fine example of Flemish miniature art from the 15th century. Its three volumes are produced on parchment.

Froissart (1337- ca. 1404) worked for the Dukes of Burgundy. In the Chronicles, he describes the European wars from the accession to the throne of Edward II of England (1307) to the death of Richard II (1400).

This manuscript is a combination of history and vibrant decoration. It drew the admiration of the Moretus family, who purchased it in around 1805.
Source: Museum Plantin Moretus