Chroniques de Hainaut


Description

Title
Chroniques de Hainaut
Creator
Baudouin d'Avesnes
Published / Created
[between 1300 and 1315]
Publication Place
Metz
Abstract
Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of Baudouin d'Avesnes (d. 1289; Lord of Beaumont and son of Margaret of Flanders), Chroniques de Hainaut. Continues to ca. 1131.
Description
Acquired from H. P. Kraus in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston, who gave it to Yale in 1962.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Diced brown calf over heavy wooden boards which are possibly original.
One fine historiated initial, 4-line (f. 4r): orange, pink and blue with white filigree; a king seated in conversation with three men, the figures orange, pink, and blue against a ground diapered in gold and blue with crowns in white; on a blue ground with white floral filigree framed in gold; curling vine serifs, red and green, extending into a 3/4 vine border, blue and pink, with red, blue, green and white leaves with some knots and gold cusping; large gold dots; two dogs, one with a bone, in lower margin. Two coats-of-arms in upper and lower margins. One fine calligraphic initial, 5-line, f. 197r, divided red and blue with particolored penwork, red and blue, with flourishes and a cascading column of I's, alternating red and blue and extending 3/4 length of inner margin. 4- to 2-line initials, red or blue, with blue or red penwork, dots and large flourishes, one on f. 4r with a cascading column of I's as above. 1-line initials, red or blue, with penwork, as above. Numerous crude marginal drawings in brown ink. Notes to rubricator, arts. 1 and 3.
Script: Written in fine gothic textura. Corrections made over erasures.
Extent
ff. 372 + ii : parchment ; 450 x 310 (301 x 205) mm.
Extent of Digitization
Completely digitized
Language
French, Old (842-ca.1400)

Collection Information

Call Number
Beinecke MS 339

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
text
Genre
Decorated initials
Historiated initials
Manuscripts
Rubrics
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic)
Hainaut (Belgium)
Subject (Name)
Baudouin d'Avesnes
Subject (Topic)
French literature--To 1500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation
Baudouin d'Avesnes, Chroniques de Hainaut. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. and Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 339.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
9786467
OID
2002813
More Information
http://brbl-net.library.yale.edu/pre1600ms/docs/pre1600.ms339.htm

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