CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS

This catalogue describes the illuminated manuscripts of the Grandes Chroniques de France that formed the basis of my research. Each manuscript description is divided into several categories. In the Collation section, the numeral preceding the parentheses indicates the number of the gathering, the numeral within the parentheses refers to the first folio of the gathering, and the numeral that follows tells how many folios made up the gathering. When applicable, notes describe whether a folio was inserted into (tipped ) or missing from (lacks ) the gathering or whether an unused folio was cut (excised ) from the gathering. Detailed incipits are provided, since medieval inventories frequently quote either the first line of the second folio of the manuscript or the first line of the second folio of the chronicle's text, as well as the first line of the last folio. The explicits are useful for preliminary grouping of textual families.

The Miniatures section lists the folio number, text citation (which follows the text divisions in Viard's and Delachenal's critical editions), and subject of each picture. These text citations aid in the comparison of cycles in different manuscripts. I also note when miniatures have been cut out or when offsets indicate that a missing page had illustrations. Only when a miniature deviates from a normal, single-column width is its scale described; the abbreviation FPM indicates a full-page miniature and HI a historiated initial.

The Style section records the number of artists who worked on each chronicle. Any who worked on other copies of the Grandes Chroniques are cited in Appendix I. The Provenance section provides evidence derived from inventories, signatures, and heraldry about the earliest owners of these manuscripts. The References section lists publications relevant to the manuscripts. Full bibliographical references for works cited more than three times are provided in the Selected Bibliography. Publications that concentrate on manuscript style are noted in Appendix I.

The abbreviations T and R stand for text and rubric. The plus signs (+, ++, +++) refer to sequences of pictures that subdivide chapters.

Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, W. 138
Grandes Chroniques de France (from Philip Augustus to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–22(169)8; 23(177)10; 24(187)8–27(211)8; 28(219)10; 29(229)4, 4th excised; 30(232)8–33(256)8; 34(264)8, 8th excised. Incipits: This manuscript begins with signature j ; thus 8–9 gatherings are missing. It starts with the rubric ending the life of Louis VI and continues with the life of Philip Augustus. Fol. 269: l'enterrage du corps tant. . . . Explicit: fol. 269v: . . . foison de biens.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Coronation (illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 3). 2. fol. 15 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Surrender of Tours or Le Mans. 3. fol. 31v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Pope Innocent III places hand on head of kneeling man as clerics watch (pope orders Amaury de Bene to cease heretical preaching?). 4. fol. 49 (Saint Louis, 1) Coronation (illustrates Saint Louis, 2). 5. fol. 87v (Philip III, 1) blank. 6. fol. 107 (Philip IV, 1) Philip IV with barons and clerics. 7. fol. 132 (Louis X, 1)

Coronation of Louis and Clementina of Hungary. 8. fol. 133v (Philip V, 1) Coronation. 9. fol. 138v (Charles IV, 1) Charles IV sends a message. 10. fol. 149v (Philip of Valois, 1) Barons discuss the royal succession. 11. fol. 189v (John the Good, 1) Coronation of John and Bonne of Luxembourg. 12. fol. 232 (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon.

STYLE: Two artists. I: fols. 107, 132, 133v, 138v, 149v, 232. II: fols. 1v, 15, 31v(?), 49, 189v.

REFERENCES: Seymour DeRicci and W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York, 1937), 1:850 no. 522; Lilian M. C. Randall, France 875–1420 (Baltimore, 1989), 213–15 no. 79.

Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, W. 139
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8, lacks 2nd; 2(8)10; 3(18)10; 4(28)8–33(260)8; 34(268)6; 35(274)8–62(490)8. Incipits: Table of contents: fol. 1: R: Ci commence la table des grans chroniques. . . . T: Premierement le prologue de l' aucteur . . . ; fol. 2: -quist plusieurs cites et chasteaux . . . Text proper: fol. 20(i): R: Ce sont les grans croniques de france. . . . T: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 21(ii): entente pour la aydier . . . ; current last folio: fol. 497(cccclxxix): a lui et qu'il lui auroit. . . . Explicit: fol. 497v: . . . son oroison devotement.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (preceding preliminary chapter list) Youth presents book to a seated cleric. 2. fol. 20 (prologue) four-part miniature: ducal army on march/ Elenus the poet dictating/ Battle led by duke/ Coronation of Pharamond (illustrates Book 1). 3. fol. 32 (II, 1) Clotilda divides realm among her four sons. 4. fol. 46v (II, 23) Caribert, Guntram, and Sigebert take their revenge on their brother Chilperic, who sought to take over the whole realm. 5. fol. 70v (IV, 1) Torture of Brunhilda (illustrates IV, 20). 6. fol. 83v (V, 1) King Dagobert supervises the building of the abbey of Saint-Denis (illustrates V, 9). 7. fol. 97v (V, 20) Exemption of the abbey of Saint-Denis (illustrates V, 21). 8. fol. 104v (V, 28) Death of Duke Gaifer of Aquitaine (?). 9. fol. 107v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Charlemagne, enthroned in a tent, receives a messenger. 10. fol. 120 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Coronation of Charlemagne by Pope Leo III. 11. fol. 126 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Meeting of Charlemagne and Constantine in Constantinople (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. III, 6). 12. fol. 135v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Charlemagne's vision of Saint James. 13. fol. 144 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. V, 2). 14. fol. 150v (Louis the Pious, 1) Louis the Pious visiting Pope Stephen IV (illustrates Louis the Pious, 9). 15. fol. 173v (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 16. fol. 187 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Louis receives sword and main-de-justice from Empress Richilda (here seen as a queen) at his coronation. 17. fol. 190v (Louis the Stammerer, 5) Coronation of Louis III and Carloman. 18. fol. 196 (Louis IV, 1) Assassination of William Longsword by Count Arnold I. 19. fol. 200 (Lothaire, 1) Invasion of the palace of Otto II of Germany by Lothaire (illustrates Lothaire, 3). 20. fol. 202v (Hugh Capet, 1) Degradation of Arnulf, archbishop of Reims. 21. fol. 203v (Robert, 1) Robert sings responses with monks. 22. fol. 207 (Henry, 1) Messenger of William, duke of Normandy, tells Henry I's army of the defeat of Henry's allies by the Normans. 23. fol. 212 (Philip I, 1) Interview of Philip I and son Louis VI with Pope Pascal II (illustrates Philip I, 10). 24. fol. 222 (Louis VI, 1) Denial of coronation of Louis VI of France by the church of Reims. 25. fol. 244 (Louis VII, 1) Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine set off on a crusade (probably illustrates Louis VII, 2). 26. fol. 256v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Christological vision (youthful Philip Augustus wears a crown, angel swoops down). 27. fol. 269v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Philip Augustus routs Richard the Lionheart and his army (illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 13 or 14). 28. fol. 285v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Battle of Bouvines (illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 10). 29. fol. 298 (Louis VIII, 1) Siege of a city, either La Rochelle (ch. 2) or Avignon (ch. 4). 30. fol. 301 (Saint Louis, 1) Death of Louis VIII at Montpensier (Louis is haloed;

angel brings a cross down from heaven). 31. fol. 337 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, mourns Louis IX at Tunis. 32. fol. 354v (Philip IV, 1) Edward I pays homage to Philip IV. 33. fol. 379 (Louis X, 1) Rebellion of Robert, count of Flanders. 34. fol. 380v (Philip V, 1) King and queen supervise wedding of a noble couple (illustrates Philip V, 2). 35. fol. 385 (Charles IV, 1) Visit of Queen Isabel and her son, the future Edward III, to France (illustrates Charles IV, 11). 36. fol. 394v (Philip of Valois, 1) Defeat of the Flemish (illustrates Philip of Valois, 5). 37. fol. 430 (John the Good, 1) Battle of Poitiers (illustrates John the Good, 19). 38. fol. 471 (Charles V, 1) Jousting tournament, Queen Jeanne of Bourbon in stands.

STYLE: Three artists decorated this manuscript. I: fols. 1, 20, 173v, 187, 190v, 200, 202v, 203v, 207, 212, 222, 256v, 269v, 285v. II (Virgil Master): fols. 32, 46v, 70v, 83v, 97v, 104v, 107v, 120v, 126, 135v, 144, 150v. III (Follower of the Virgil Master): fols. 196, 203v, 244, 298, 301, 337, 354v, 379, 380v, 385, 394v, 430, 471.

REFERENCES: Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Baltimore, 1949), no. 71; DeRicci and Wilson, Census , 1:850 n. 523; David Diringer, The Illuminated Book (New York, 1958), 398, 408, pl. VII-21B; Randall, France 875–1420 , 215–18 no. 80.

Belgium, Private Collection, Excised Miniatures
Grandes Chroniques de France

MINIATURES: 1. (V, 1) French army routs Lombards. 2. (Lothaire, 1) Hugh the Great (here a king) places his son under the care of Richard, duke of Normandy. 3. (Robert, 1) Surrender of Melun. 4. (John the Good, 1) Coronation of John the Good and Bonne of Luxembourg.

STYLE: Second artist of B.N. fr. 823.

REFERENCES: Christie's Sales Catalogue, Valuable Early Printed Books and Manuscripts , Wednesday June 27, 1979, no. 148.

Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Phill. 1917
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–47(353)8; 48(361)4; 49(369)8–68(521)8. Incipits: fol. A: R: Ci commence les grans croniques . . . T: Premierement le prologue . . . ; fol. B: -perich establi et de la discord . . . ; fol. 1: R: Cy apres commence le prologue . . . T: C'il qui ceste livre . . . ; fol. 2: R: Cy commence les chappitres. . . . T: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 3 (second of chronicle): de tout le monde . . . ; fol. 528: R: Ci commence le roy . . . T: L'an de grace. . . . Explicit: fol. 528v: . . . foison de biens.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (I, 1) four parts: Capture of Helen/ Destruction of Troy/ Flight of Aeneas to Rome/ Presentation to Charles VI. 2. fol. 7v (I, 15) Coronation of Clovis. 3. fol. 10v (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 4. fol. 14 (II, 1) Clotilda divides the realm among her four sons. 5. fol. 78 (V, 9) Dagobert gives part of his realm to his brother Caribert. 6. fol. 96 (V, 28) Three sons of Charles Martel. 7. fol. 99v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Einhard writing. 8. fol. 114 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome. 9. fol. 132v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to Charlemagne as he sleeps with his imperial crown beside him. 10. fol. 142v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Charlemagne receives gifts from the Saracen rulers. 11. fol. 149v (Louis the Pious, 1) Charlemagne gives Aquitaine to Louis. 12. fol. 174v (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 13. fol. 189v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Empress Richilda gives Louis a scepter and sword. 14. fol. 199 (Louis IV, 1) Coronation. 15. fol. 206v (Robert, 1) Robert writes in his study. 16. fol. 227 (Louis VI, 1) Messengers arrive to stop the coronation of Louis VI but are too late. 17. fol. 250v (Louis VII, 1) Coronation. 18. fol. 263v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Louis VII's Christological vision.

19. fol. 305v (Louis VIII, 1) Louis VIII rides into a town to receive homage. 20. fol. 308v (Saint Louis, 1) Coronation, Louis is haloed (illustrates Saint Louis, 2). 21. fol. 346 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, arrives at the deathbed of Saint Louis. 22. fol. 364v (Philip IV, 1) Edward I of England pays homage to Philip. 23. fol. 389 (Louis X, 1) Louis X rides to Flanders. 24. fol. 391 (Philip V, 1) The pope sends messengers to make peace between the French and the Flemish. 25. fol. 395v (Charles IV, 1) Marriage of Charles IV and Maria of Bohemia. 26. fol. 405 (Philip of Valois, 1) Defeat of the Flemish (illustrates Philip of Valois, 5). 27. fol. 441v (John the Good, 1) Jousting (Burgundy versus opponent) observed by knights on horseback. 28. fol. 484 (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon. 29. fol. 528 (Charles VI, 1) Charles VI's entry into Paris.

STYLE: Master of the Cité des Dames .

PROVENANCE: On fol. 1, arms of the Rolin family—lords of Autun, Aimeries, and Raismes—were added later. The male line of this family died out in 1569.

REFERENCES: Joachim Kirchner, Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Miniaturen und des Initialschmuckes in den Phillipps-Handschriften (Leipzig, 1926) (Prussia, Koenigliche Bibliothek, Berlin. Beschreibende Verzeichnisse der Miniaturen—Handschriften, vol. 1). Leo Olschki, Manuscrits français à peintures des bibliothèques d'Allemagne (Geneva, 1932), 36, pl. 41.

Besançon, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 863
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)2, 1st lacks; 2(2)8–5(26)8; 6(34)6; 7(40)6; 8(46)8–10(62)8; 11(70)6; 12(76)6; 13(82)8–20(138)8; 21(146)6; 22(152)8–46(344)8; 47(352)10; 48(361)10, 10th canceled; 49(370)8–53(402)8; 54(410)4; 55(414)8–60(454)8; 61(462)5, 4th added. Incipits: fol. 1: lacks; fol. 2: force ne grief en france . . . ; fol. 3: quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 4 (second folio of chronicle): -voia ses messages aux troiens . . . ; fol. 463: et tantost apres fu. . . . Explicit: fol. 463v: T: foison de biens. R: Explicit chronice regu(m) francie.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 2 (I, 1) four parts: Flight from Troy/ Eleanus, the poet, dictating/ Battle between the French and the Romans/ Coronation of Pharamond. 2. fol. 12v (II, 1) Clovis and Clotilda enthroned; at the left, their four crowned sons sit on a bench. 3. fol. 24v (III, 1) A baron kneels before an altar holding a gold cross (no textual source). 4. fol. 43 (IV, 1) Kings Guntram and Childebert discuss in a landscape while their armies watch. 5. fol. 56v (V, 1) Construction of the abbey of Saint-Denis (illustrates V, 9). 6. fol. 75v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Coronation of Charlemagne as king (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. I, 2). 7. fol. 81v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor. 8. fol. 86 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne, the pope, a bishop, and others kneel before an altar on which relics (a piece of wood, an arm, a piece of tunic, a part of the Crown of Thorns, and a nail) rest (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. III, 5). 9. fol. 91v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to sleeping Charlemagne; three soldiers with swords and candles stand by his bed. 10. fol. 98v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 11. fol. 103v (Louis the Pious, 1) King Louis gives gold vessels to two bishops and a monk (illustrates Louis the Pious, 10?). 12. fol. 110v (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy (two kings, one emperor). 13. fol. 121v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Empress Richilda presents Louis with a sword and scepter. 14. fol. 124v (Louis the Stammerer, 5) Carloman and Emperor Charles, his cousin, make peace with the Normans. 15. fol. 136 (Robert, 1) King Robert presents a sequence he has written to the pope. 16. fol. 151v (Louis VI, 1) Louis VI flanked by an emperor and a king. 17. fol. 175v (Louis VII, 1) Conrad, the Holy Roman Emperor, and Louis VII worship at the Holy Sepulchre (illustrates Louis VII, 13). 18. fol. 187 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) King Philip gives barons a drink from a chalice. 19.

fol. 198 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Battle between Philip's and the English (here Norman) armies. 20. fol. 212 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Battle of Bouvines: Philip Augustus and soldier with Burgundian arms rout army of Otto III (illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 10). 21. fol. 232 (Louis VIII, 1) Louis VIII and his troops fire at Saracens from their ship. 22. fol. 272v (Philip III, 1) Louis IX besieges Tunis. 23. fol. 337 (Philip of Valois, 3) Count of Flanders surrenders to Philip of Valois (illustrates Philip of Valois, 5). 24. fol. 369 (John the Good, 1) Coronation. 25. fol. 413v (Charles V, 1) Meeting of Charles V and Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor (illustrates Charles V, 60).

STYLE: Related to the Master of the Berry Apocalypse.

REFERENCE: Ministère de l'instruction publique et de beaux-arts, Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, Départements (Paris, 1897), 32:546–47.

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, Ms. 1
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: A gathering containing the prologue is missing at the beginning. 1(1)8, 1st and 8th lack; 2(7)8–51(399)8; 52(407)6; 53(413)8–55(429)8; 56(437)6; 57(443)2, blank; 58(445)1, inscription and offset. Incipits: fol. 1: augustus et comment . . . ; fol. 2 (second folio of the chronicle): rent habite une piece . . . ; fol. 442: demourant du royaume. . . . Explicit: fol. 442: . . . foison de biens et c.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (I, 1) three quarters of a page: Flight from Troy. 2. folio lacks between fols. 6 and 7 (I, 16) offset. 3. fol. 8 (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 4. fol. 11 (II, 1) Kings Clotaire and Childebert assassinate their nephews (illustrates II, 9). 5. fol. 24v (II, 25) Marriage of Sigebert and Brunhilda. 6. fol. 45v (IV, 1) Death of Gondovald (?) (if so, illustrates IV, 4). 7. fol. 57v (V, 1) Stag takes refuge in Saint-Denis from Dagobert and fellow hunters (illustrates V, 2). 8. fol. 70 (V, 20) Dagobert's sons Louis and Sigebert divide their father's treasure after his death. 9. fol. 74 (V, 25) Battle of Poitiers: Charles Martel routs Saracens. 10. fol. 76v (V, 28) Pope Stephen crowns Pepin (with imperial crown). 11. fol. 79v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) King Pepin has the pope crown Charlemagne and Carloman kings (illustrates V, 28). 12. fol. 90 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor. 13. fol. 96 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) King Charlemagne supervises construction of Aix-la-Chapelle. 14. fol. 104 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to King Charlemagne and his mounted army. 15. fol. 112v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Saracen kings Marsile and Bagliant give presents to Ganelon. 16. fol. 119 (Louis the Pious, 1) King Louis enthroned with barons—clothing of one baron inscribed "Aelear"(?). 17. fol. 140 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy (French arms trimmed in red and white). 18. fol. 152v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Enthroned youth (instead of king) receives messengers (instead of the Empress Richilda) with sword and crown (instead of scepter). 19. fol. 155v (Louis the Stammerer, 5) Coronation of Louis III and Carloman. 20. fol. 160 (Louis IV, 1) Capture of Louis IV by the Danes (?) (if so, illustrates Louis IV, 4) (French arms trimmed with red and white). 21. fol. 164 (Lothaire, 1) King enthroned among barons; clothing of one baron inscribed "Aele." 22. fol. 166, (Louis V, 1) Coronation. 23. fol. 166 (Hugh Capet, 1) Deposition of Archbishop Arnoul. 24. fol. 167 (Robert, 1) Pope watches Robert place one of the sequences that he had written on the altar of Saint Peter's. 25. fol. 170 (Henry, 1) Henry besieges a town (French banner trimmed with red and white). 26. fol. 174v (Philip I, 1) Philip I repudiates his wife Berthe. 27. fol. 183 (Louis VI, 1) Battle of Louis VI and French army (French banner trimmed with white and green) and Emperor Henry and imperial army (pennon inscribed "vilone") (illustrates Louis VI, 17). 28. fol. 202v (Louis VII, 1) Louis VII supervises marriage of nobleman and lady—Raoul of Vermandois and Alix, sister of Eleanor of Aquitaine (illustrates Louis VII, 2). 29. fol. 213 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Louis VII's Christological vision. 30. fol. 224 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) French king and army chase the English from Le Mans or Tours (French arms trimmed in red

and white). 31. fol. 237 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) King supervises construction of abbey of Saint Victoire (?) (if so, illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 22). 32. fol. 248 (Louis VIII, 1) Translation of relics of Saints Riquier and Valery. 33. fol. 251v (Saint Louis, 1) Coronation (illustrates Saint Louis, 2). 34. fol. 282 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, at deathbed of Louis IX. 35. fol. 298 (Philip IV, 1) Edward I (uncrowned) pays homage to Philip. 36. fol. 319v (Louis X, 1) Rebellion of Robert, count of Flanders; French and Flemish armies face each other from different banks of the river Lis. 37. fol. 321 (Philip V, 1) Cardinals try to negotiate peace between France and Flanders (illustrates Philip V, 4). 38. fol. 325 (Charles IV, 1) Jourdain de Lille dragged away to be hanged in Paris (illustrates Charles IV, 5). 39. fol. 333v (Philip of Valois, 1) Battle of Cassel (French arms trimmed with red and white). 40. fol. 365v (John the Good, 1) Arrest of Raoul de Brienne, count of Eu and of Guines, by John the Good and troops (French arms trimmed in red and white). 41. fol. 369v (John the Good, 19) Battle of Poitiers. 42. fol. 403 (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon. 43. fol. 442 (Charles VI, 1) blank.

STYLE: Two artists (?). I: fols. 1, 8, 11, 24v, 45v, 57v, 70, 74, 76v, 79v, 90, 96, 104, 112v, 119, 140, 152v, 155v, 160, 164, 166 (two miniatures), 167, 170, 174v, 183, 202v, 213, 224, 237, 248, 251v, 282, 298, 319v, 321, 325, 333v, 365, 403. II: fol. 369v.

PROVENANCE: Mentioned in the inventory of Margaret of Austria in 1516.

REFERENCES: Joseph van den Gheyn, Histoire d'Espagne, histoire de France, histoire d'Italie , in Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (Renaix, 1919), 10:124–25 n. 6927; Ministère de l'instruction publique, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, La Bibliothèque de Marguerite d'Autriche (Brussels, 1940), no. 89.

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, Ms. 2
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–44(345)8; 45(353)11, 1st tipped to 2nd; 46(364)8–49(388)8; 50(396)8, 8th excised; 51(403)8–59(467)8; 60(475)10; 61(485)4. Incipits: fol. 1: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: R: Le premier chapitre parle . . . T: Quatre cens et . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of chronicle): piece de temps . . . ; fol. 488: aa costume a porter les roys. . . . Explicit: fol. 488v: . . . grant foyson de prisonniers.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) HI: Monk writing. 2. fol. 2 (I, 1) four parts: Battle of Trojans (French) and Greeks (?)/ King Childeric ejected from Paris/ Construction of Sicambria/ Baptism of Clovis. 3. fol. 12v (II, 1) The four sons of Clovis divide the realm. 4. fol. 27v (III, 1) Marriage of King Chilperic and Fredegunda (they join left hands). 5. fol. 47v (IV, 1) King Guntram designates King Childebert as his heir. 6. fol. 59 (V, 1) Dagobert has all the Jews in his realm baptized (illustrates V, 12). 7. fol. 79 (V, 28) Coronation of Pepin. 8. fol. 82 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Coronation of Charlemagne as king (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. I, 2). 9. fol. 94 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne king (should be emperor) in Rome. 10. fol. 100v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne is charitable to the poor and supervises the construction of Aix-la-Chapelle (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1 and 2). 11. fol. 109v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to Charlemagne as he sleeps. 12. fol. 118 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 13. fol. 125 (Louis the Pious, 1) Barons (should be Charlemagne) have the pope crown infant Louis king of Aquitaine. 14. fol. 147v (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 15. fol. 160 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Louis receives messengers. 16. fol. 163 (Louis the Stammerer, 5) blank. 17. fol. 168 (Louis IV, 1) Queen Algive and young Louis IV sail from England to France. 18. fol. 172 (Lothaire, 1) Coronation. 19. fol. 175 (Robert, 1) Pope blesses as King Robert places sequences that he had written on the altar at Saint Peter's. 20. fol. 192v (Louis VI, 1) Messengers arrive too late to prevent the coronation of Louis. 21. fol. 213 (Louis VII, 1) King Louis, King John of Jerusalem, and Conrad the Holy Roman Emperor (here a king) together in Jerusalem (?) (if so, illustrates Louis VII,

13). 22. fol. 224v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Louis VII prays at an altar; above the bust of Christ appears. 23. fol. 236v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Army looks about in a valley. 24. fol. 251 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Debate over heresy of Amaury de Bene. 25. fol. 263 (Louis VIII, 1) Saints Valery and Richier appear to Hugh Capet. 26. fol. 267 (Saint Louis, 1) Louis VIII besieges Avignon. 27. fol. 323 (Philip IV, 1) Edward I of England pays homage to Philip IV. 28. fol. 347v (Louis X, 1) Coronation. 29. fol. 349 (Philip V, 1) Burning of lepers (illustrates Philip V, 7). 30. fol. 365 (Philip of Valois, 1) Barons discuss the French succession. 31. fol. 405v (John the Good, 1) John watches young men who will become knights praying at an altar. 32. fol. 410v (John the Good, 19) Cardinal of Perigord and a second cardinal attempt to negotiate peace between the French and English before the battle of Poitiers. 33. fol. 446v (Charles V, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: I: all miniatures. II: marginal figures, fol. 2.

PROVENANCE: On the parchment folio after fol. 488, written upside down, is a fifteenth-century inscription in cursive: "Prologue des croniques de France, achaté du gouverneur de Lille." Offsets show that this folio originally faced fol. 1. This book was listed in Philip the Good's inventory of 1467 as "Unes autres croniques de France couverte de cuir rouge, cloué à clouz dorez, historié, et est escripte à deux coulombes chacune page; le second feuillet commence pièce de temps , et le dernier, a conscue à port ."

REFERENCES: Jean Baptiste Joseph Barrois, Bibliothèque prototypographique ou librairies des fils du roi Jean, Charles V, Jean de Berri, Philippe de Bourgogne, et les siens (Paris, 1830), 205 no. 1412; Gheyn, Catalogue , 125–26 no. 6928.

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, Ms. 3
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)2; 2(3)8–24(179)8; 25(187)8, 6th excised (?); 26(194)8–57(442)8; 58(450)5, binding too tight to determine construction. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Ci commence les grans croniques . . . T: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: -ius occist le roy alarich . . . ; fol. 3: R: Comment les francois . . . T: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 4 (second folio of text): de leur sang . . . ; fol. 453: tant ordinaires come. . . . Explicit: fol. 453: . . . grant foison de biens.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Author portrait. 2. fol. 3 (I, 1) four parts: Trojans (French) march/ Battle of French and Romans (?)/ Founding of Paris by Marcomir/ Marcomir supervises coronation of his son Pharamond. 3. fol. 10 (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 4. fol. 13 (II, 1) Clotilda splits realm among her four sons. 5. fol. 26v (III, 1) King Chilperic and Queen Galswintha in bed; at instigation of Fredegunda, Chilperic strangles his wife. 6. fol. 44v (IV, 1) King Guntram crowns his heir, Childebert, in a landscape. 7. fol. 55v (V, 1) Clotaire II send message to the Lombards. 8. fol. 76v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Einhard and Turpin writing. 9. fol. 87v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne, who wears his arms (impaled French and imperial), emperor in Rome. 10. fol. 96v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Charlemagne rides out of a city with a cardinal, who receives messengers. 11. fol. 101v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to Charlemagne and his knights. 12. fol. 109v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Two Saracen kings bring gifts to Charlemagne. 13. fol. 116 (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Charlemagne crowns the infant Louis while the queen holds Louis in bed. 14. fol. 136 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 15. fol. 147v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Louis the Stammerer and his son, Louis, accede to the barons (illustrates Louis the Stammerer, 2). 16. fol. 158v (Lothaire, 1) Conflict between Count Thibaut of Chartres and Duke Richard of Normandy at Lothaire's coronation (?) (if so, illustrates Lothaire, 3). 17. fol. 161 (Robert, 1) Soldiers enter Robert's study, where he is writing with clerics. 18. fol. 168v (Philip I, 1) Eudes Arpin, the count of Bourges, sells his county to Philip and goes on crusade. 19. fol. 178 (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 20. fol. 233 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Philip supervises the burning of heretics. 21. fol. 244 (Louis VIII, 1) Saint Valery appears to Hugh Capet. 22. fol. 248 (Saint Louis, 1) Louis VIII and young

Louis IX supervise the burning of heretics in southern France. 23. fol. 281 (Philip III, 1) Body of Louis IX lies in state in a ship outside Tunis. 24. fol. 298 (Philip IV, 1) Homage of Edward I of England to Philip. 25. fol. 322 (Louis X, 1) French battle the Flemish (?). 26. fol. 323v (Philip V, 1) Philip, king of France and Navarre, (wears arms) leads army in battle. 27. fol. 328 (Charles IV, 1) Charles rids himself of his first wife, Blanche of Artois, and marries Maria of Bohemia. 28. fol. 337v (Philip of Valois, 1) Queen supervises discussion of French succession between barons and bishops. 29. fol. 373 (John the Good, 1) Coronation of Jeanne of Burgundy; John knights the dauphin, Charles, who wears his arms. 30. fol. 378 (John the Good, 19) Battle of Poitiers—the English are marked with red crosses, the French with white ones. 31. fol. 414v (Charles V, 1) Charles V invests Philip the Bold with the duchy of Burgundy (Philip wears his arms).

STYLE: Two artists. I (Master of the Cité des Dames ): fols. 147v, 158v, 161, 168v, 178, 244, 248, 281, 298, 373, 378, 414v. II (Artist related to the Luçon Master): fols. 1, 3, 10, 13, 26v, 44v, 55v, 76v, 87v, 96v, 101v, 109v, 116, 136, 233, 322, 323v, 328, 337v.

PROVENANCE: Listed in Philip the Good's 1467 inventory as "Ung autre livre des dites croniques de France, intitulé au dehors Cy commence les grans Croniques et les fais des roys de France , escripte de lettre de forme, à deux coulombes, historié commençant au second feuillet de leur sang , et au dernier, tant ordine et come ."

REFERENCES: Barrois, Bibliothèque prototypographique , 206 no. 1419; Gheyn, Catalogue , 126–27; Leon Gilissen, M. Debae, M. A. Dewèvre, and A. Rouzet, De librije von Bourgondien en enkele recente aanwinsten van den koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I (Brussels, 1970), 22, pl. 9; Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, Le livre illustré en occident du haut Moyen-Âge à nos jours (Brussels, 1977), 53–54 no. 36.

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, Ms. 5
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1321)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–4(25)8, a single leaf containing a miniature lacks after gathering 4; 5(33)8–43(337)8. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Ci commence les croniques. . . . T: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: de son regne . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of chronicle): troiens. En Cartage . . . ; fol. 4: -ent en telle maniere . . . ; fol. 344: l'octave saint. . . . Explicit: fol. 344: T: fors que aus escos. R: Explicit.

MINIATURES: All are two-column miniatures unless otherwise noted. 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) three-column width: Two rows of nine kings. 2. fol. 2v (I, 1) King Pharamond and his court. 3. fol. 4v (I, 5) Clodion converses with men at arms. 4. fol. 7 (I, 11) Emperor (here a king) of Constantinople accords the aid of Theoderic to messengers from Rome. 5. fol. 8v (I, 13) Emperor (here a king) deliberates with the senate. 6. fol. 10 (I, 15) Coronation of Clovis. 7. fol. 12 (I, 18) Clovis reproaches Clotilda. 8. fol. 13 (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 9. fol. 15v (I, 24) Clovis orders the duke of Cambrai executed. 10. fol. 17 (II, 1) The four sons of Clovis divide his realm. 11. fol. 21 (II, 6) King Thierry chases the troops of Childebert from Clermont. 12. fol. 24v (II, 11) Murder of Sigebert: Thierry sends a message to Theodebert. 13. fol. 27v (II, 16) Death of Saint Benedict. 14. fol. 31v (II, 20) Death of Pope Virgil. 15. fol. lacks (II, 23) offset present. 16. fol. 34 (II, 25) Marriage of Sigebert and Brunhilda. 17. fol. 35 (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha while she sleeps. 18. fol. 39 (III, 5) Coronation of Childebert. 19. fol. 40v (III, 6) King Chilperic's messengers arrive before Emperor Tiberius. 20. fol. 41 (III, 7) Death of Meroveus. 21. fol. 42v (III, 8) Judgment of the archbishop of Rouen. 22. fol. 47 (III, 13) King Chilperic receives money sent by Emperor Maurice. 23. fol. 50v (III, 17) Childebert's and Chilperic's armies battle King Guntram's. 24. fol. 52 (III, 19) Queen Fredegunda (here a king) orders the murder of King Chilperic. 25. fol. 54 (III, 21) Conference between two kings. 26. fol. 56 (III, 24) King Guntram orders the death of Eberulphe. 27. fol. 59 (IV, 1) King Guntram and

King Childebert, his nephew, enthroned. 28. fol. 61 (IV, 4) King orders the murder of Gondovald. 29. fol. 63 (IV, 7) Bishops transport the reliquary containing the robe of Christ to Jerusalem. 30. fol. 63v (IV, 8) Fredegunda holds a swaddled and crowned infant and leads an army into battle. 31. fol. 64v (IV, 9) King Childebert sends army to Lombardy. 32. fol. 65 (IV, 10) King Childebert lies on a bier; his two sons divide the realm. 33. fol. 66 (IV, 11) Kings Theodebert and Theodoric defeat King Clotaire in battle. 34. fol. 66v (IV, 12) King Theodoric defeats King Clotaire in battle. 35. fol. 69v (IV, 17) Assassination of King Theodebert. 36. fol. 70v (IV, 19) Brunhilda and one of her nephews are brought before King Clotaire. 37. fol. 71 (IV, 20) King Clotaire orders torture of Brunhilda. 38. fol. 72v (IV, 23) Christ appears to Emperor Maurice. 39. fol. 75 (V, 1) Saxons executed at the order of King Clotaire. 40. fol. 87 (V, 17) Gascons implore King Dagobert's clemency. 41. fol. 91 (V, 22) Clovis II loses his wits because he attempted to remove a bone from the reliquary of Saint Denis. 42. fol. 94 (V, 25) Battle. 43. fol. 95 (V, 26) Battle of Poitiers. 44. fol. 97 (V, 28) Coronation of Pepin by a bishop (instead of the pope). 45. fol. 99 (V, 30) Death of Pepin. 46. fol. 100v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Einhard writing. 47. fol. 103 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 4) Coronation of Charlemagne as king. 48. fol. 106v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 7) Charlemagne received in Rome by the pope. 49. fol. 114 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 9) Battle against the Huns. 50. fol. 114 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome. 51. fol. 117 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 4) Battle. 52. fol. 120 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 7) Emperor Charlemagne directs the celebration of a liturgical office. 53. fol. 122 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne supervises the construction of Aix-la-Chapelle. 54. fol. 125v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 5) King Charlemagne receives the ambassadors from the Eastern emperor. 55. fol. 128 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 8) Emperor Charlemagne and nobles pray before the reliquary containing the Crown of Thorns. 56. fol. 132v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to Emperor Charlemagne as he sleeps. 57. fol. 134v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 12) Prelate preaches at the invitation of Charlemagne. 58. fol. 142 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 59. fol. 144 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 3) Soldiers mourn over the dead body of Roland. 60. fol. 145v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 5) Emperor Charlemagne and soldiers mourn over the bodies of Roland and his companions. 61. fol. 151 (Louis the Pious, 1) three-column miniature: At the left, Emperor Charlemagne speaks to barons; at the right, Charlemagne supervises the coronation of Louis as king of Aquitaine by the pope. 62. fol. 155 (Louis the Pious, 6) Battle against the Gascons. 63. fol. 160 (Louis the Pious, 11) King Louis orders the execution of Bernard of Lombardy and other traitors. 64. fol. 164 (Louis the Pious, 15) Battle against the Saracens. 65. fol. 167v (Louis the Pious, 18) King Lothaire receives presents sent by the emperor of Constantinople. 66. fol. 171 (Louis the Pious, 21) Emperor Louis receives messengers from Lothaire. 67. fol. 175 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 68. fol. 180 (Charles the Bald, 6) King Louis the German and Queen Angeberge. 69. fol. 184v (Charles the Bald, 10) King Louis, nephew of Charles the Bald, tortures men to determine if Charles's claims to rule are justified. 70. fol. 186v (Charles the Bald, 13) Vision of Charles the Bald. 71. fol. 189v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Louis supervises the distribution of gold objects (chalice and sword) to the barons to win their support. 72. fol. 193 (Louis the Stammerer, 5) Coronation of Louis III and Carloman. 73. fol. 195 (Louis the Stammerer, 7) Marriage of Louis, the "Faineant," and the nun whom he took from the abbey of Chiele. 74. fol. 195v (Charles the Simple, 1) Normans at sea. 75. fol. 198 (Raoul, 1) Coronation. 76. fol. 199 (Louis IV, 1) Coronation. 77. fol. 203 (Lothaire, 1) Coronation. 78. fol. 205 (Charles, 1) French forces battle those of Hugh the Great, father of Hugh Capet. 79. fol. 205v (Hugh Capet, 1) Battle. 80. fol. 206 (Robert, 1) King Robert puts a sequence he had written on the altar of Saint Peter's in the presence of the pope. 81. fol. 210 (Henry, 1) Henry receives homage of a youth (no source in text). 82. fol. 215 (Philip I, 1) King Philip speaks to barons. 83. fol. 224v (Philip I, 14) Philip, enthroned in his tent, receives a messenger. 84. fol. 226v (Louis VI, 1)

Coronation. 85. fol. 232 (Louis VI, 7) Siege of the castle of Puiset. 86. fol. 235 (Louis VI, 11) Battle with Count Tibault. 87. fol. 240v (Louis VI, 16) Abbot Suger and other monks of Saint-Denis carry messages from Louis VI to the pope. 88. fol. 243 (Louis VI, 19) The bishop of Clermont complains to King Louis. 89. fol. 246 (Louis VI, 22) Discussion among cardinals. 90. fol. 248v (Louis VI, 25) Louis VI arrives at Saint-Denis. 91. fol. 249v (Louis VII, 1) King Louis discussing with barons. 92. fol. 251 (Louis VII, 3) An army that includes the French king and the Holy Roman Emperor leaves on crusade. 93. fol. 256v (Louis VII, 15) Siege of Damascus. 94. fol. 259 (Louis VII, 21) The king lies in bed while three men discuss (no textual source). 95. fol. 261 (Louis VII, 26) Battle of the French king and the count of Clermont. 96. fol. 263 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Louis VII's Christological vision. 97. fol. 265 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 6) Philip banishes the Jews from the realm. 98. fol. 268 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 11) Philip Augustus invests Philip of Alsace with the Vermandois. 99. fol. 271v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 17) Battle. 100. fol. 274v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 22) Ambassadors sent by Henry II of England to Philip (?). 101. fol. 277v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Capture of Tours or Le Mans. 102. fol. 280v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 7) Assault on Saint-Jean-d'Acre. 103. fol. 283 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 9) King Philip discusses with barons. 104. fol. 285v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 13) Homage of Richard the Lionheart to Philip Augustus. 105. fol. 288 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 16) Philip Augustus invites the Jews back into France. 106. fol. 290v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 21) French and Venetians capture Constantinople. 107. fol. 294v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Heretical preaching of Amaury de Bene. 108. fol. 298 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 6) King Philip prepares to embark for England. 109. fol. 300v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 9+) Battle of Bouvines. 110. fol. 305 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 18) Philip and army return to camp. 111. fol. 308 (between the lives of Philip Augustus and Louis VIII) Interpolated text: "Ci endroit commencea parler du roi iehan de iherusalem. Et comment il passa en damiete et en ithalie pour requerre secours au pape. En l'an de l'incarnation nostre segneur . . . de cette cite." The king of Jerusalem and his army sail towards a city.

The following illustrate a different translation of the lives of Louis VIII, Saint Louis, and Philip III than was normally used in the Grandes Chroniques . I have assigned chapter numbers here that correspond to those in B. N. fr. 10132, the oldest chronicle with this text. Others include Castres, B.M., and Grenoble, Ms. 407 rés. 112. fol. 308v (Louis VIII, 1) Surrender of La Rochelle. 113. fol. 309v (Saint Louis, 1) Battle. 114. fol. 310v (Saint Louis, 2) Barons of France unite against Louis IX. 115. fol. 314 (Saint Louis, 18) Army of the Pastoureaux. 116. fol. 316 (Saint Louis, 20) Battle of Charles of Anjou (wearing arms: fleur-de-lis, diagonal white bar) and King Manfred. 117. fol. 317 (Saint Louis, 21) Battle of Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily (wearing French arms) against Conradin and Henry of Aragon. 118. fol. 318v (Philip III, 1) Battle. 119. fol. 321 (Philip III, 2) Battle of the French, led by Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily (arms: fleur-de-lis with diagonal white bar), and Peter of Aragon.

The texts that follow correspond to those in the critical edition. 120. fol. 322 (Philip IV, 1) Edward I of England pays homage to Philip. 121. fol. 322v (Philip IV, 6) Capture of Acre by the sultan of Babylon. 122. fol. 327 (Philip IV, 25) Exhumation of the relics of Saint Louis. 123. fol. 329v (Philip IV, 42) Battle of Courtrai. 124. fol. 333 (Philip IV, 57) Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle. 125. fol. 334v (Philip IV, 63) Templars taken to prison. 126. fol. 336v (Philip IV, 71) Enguerrand de Marigny harangues the barons for Philip IV. 127. fol. 338 (Philip IV, 75) Judgment of Enguerrand de Marigny. 128. fol. 340 (Louis X, 1) Louis rides with his army. 129. fol. 341v (Philip V, 1) Philip embraced by a baron as others watch.

STYLE: Master of the Roman de Fauvel (Geoffroy de Saint-Léger?).

PROVENANCE: Listed in the inventory of Philip the Good in 1467 as "Premierement unes croniques de France, anchienement couverte d'ais et de cuir blanc, à cloutz, historiée, et est

escripte à trois coulombes chacune page; commençant au premier feuillet De son regne et au dernier, l'octave saint Jehan ."

REFERENCES: Barrois, Bibliothèque prototypographique , 205 no. 1410; Gheyn, Catalogue , 128–30.

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier, Ms. 14561–64
Recueil

CONTENTS: 1. fols. 1–5v Alexander, "Epitre Aristotle sur les merveilles de l'Inde." 2. fols. 5v–6v Perimenis, "Epitre a l'empereur sur les merveilles de l'Inde." 3. fol. 7–163 Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins through Charles the Bald, 7). 4. fols. 163–66v Chronique abrégée (from Charles the Bald through Saint Louis). 5. fols. 167–94 Chronique d'un ménestrel de Reims . 6. fols 195–210 Chronique Arlesienne 1295–1304 (of the war between Philip IV and Guy of Dampierre).

COLLATION: 1(1)6; 2(7)8–22(175)8; 23(183)12. Incipits: fol. 1: Me ai tous jours en memoire . . . ; fol. 2: Et a dont por che . . . ; fol. 210: -trer en la ville. . . .

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 HI: At the right, King Alexander hands a letter addressed "Aristotle" to a messenger; at left, the messenger, holding Alexander's letter to Aristotle, arrives in Aristotle's study, where Aristotle reads a codex inscribed "alisndre." 2. fol. 5v HI: Above, a man walks in a landscape that includes fruit trees and dragons; below, a man drives his horse across a stream whose shores hold fruit trees and are peopled with dragons. 3. fol. 7 (Prologue) HI: A monk takes dictation. 4. fol. 8 (I, 1) HI: Enthroned king in conversation with a queen and three youths. 5. fol. 19 (II, 1) HI: Clovis (here an emperor) divides realm among three crowned sons. 6. fol. 35v (III, 1) HI: Above, King Chilperic and Queen Galswintha are enthroned with Fredegunda beside the queen; below, Queen Fredegunda, who replaced Galswintha, with three handmaidens. 7. fol. 56 (IV, 1) HI: King Guntram and Childebert. 8. fol. 68v (V, 1) HI: Clotaire has Dagobert crowned (?) (looks as if Guntram associates Childebert with him as king—illustrates IV, 1). 9. fol. 91v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) HI: Emperor Charlemagne enthroned. 10. fol. 103v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) HI: Charlemagne crowned emperor by Pope Leo III. 11. fol. 109v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) HI: Emperor Charlemagne discusses with bishops. 12. fol. 118v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) HI: Saint James appears to sleeping King Charlemagne; angels hold candlesticks. 13. fol. 124 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 4) HI: Battle of Roland and Ferragut. 14. fol. 127v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) HI: Battle of Roncevaux. 15. fol. 134v (Louis the Pious, 1) HI: Coronation of Louis as emperor. 16. fol. 155v (Charles the Bald, 1) HI: Battle of Fontenoy. 17. fol. 167 HI: In a castle, King Godfrey of Bouillon speaks to a queen; a boat full of soldiers prepares to leave.

STYLE: One artist, northern French (conversation with François Avril, January 1982).

PROVENANCE: The earliest owners are unknown. I have identified this manuscript as one that was listed in the royal library by Giles Malet in his inventory in 1373: "486 Les enseignemens de Aristote Alexandre, croniques de France, Godeffroy de Buillon, en prose, en françois, de lettre de forme, a deux coulombes. Comm. et adonc pourche . Fin tres en la ville . Couvert de deux aiz sanz cuir, a deux fermoirs de laton- 3 1."

REFERENCES: Chronique anonyme de la guerre entre Phelippe le Bel et Gui de Dampierre (1294–1304) d'après un manuscrit de la Bibliothèque Royale . Recueil des Chroniques de Flandres . . . , 4 (Brussels, 1865), 443–502; Léopold Delisle, Recherches sur la libraire de Charles V , 2:83 no. 486; F. Frocheur, "Histoire romanesque d'Alexandre le Grand ou recherches sur les differentes versions du pseudo-Callisthene, à propos d'un manuscrit de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique," Messager des sciences historiques et Archive des Arts de Belgique (Ghent, 1847), 392–436; Frédéric Lyna, "De randversiering in de Vlaamse verluchte handschriften tijdens het Gotisch tijdvak," De Tijdspeigel, Cultureel Maandblad voor Limburg 14(1959):5, pls. 74–95; Gheyn, Catalogue , 132–33 no. 6936.

Cambrai, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 682
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins through Louis VIII, then continued with the lives of Saint Louis and Philip III)

COLLATION: 1(C)6; 2(1)8–8(49)8; 9(59)12; 10(69)12; 11(81)10; 12(91)12; 13(103)8; 14(111)10; 15(121)12; 16(133)10; 17(143)12–19(167)12; 20(179)10–24(219)10; 25(229)12–28(264)12; 29(211)10; 30(281)10; 31(291)12; 32(309)12; 33(321)1; 34(331)10; 35(341)8; 36(349)8; 37(357)10; 38(367)12; 39(379)8; 40(381)10, 10th excised; 41(396)2. Incipits: fol. D: non obstant que au premier . . . ; fol. E. le x qui est . . . ; fol. 1: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: Saint denis li glorieus . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of chronicle): qui encore est apellee cornoualle . . . ; fol. 4: -lee lirrins . . . ; fol. 334 (original last folio): -tesse le vit . . . ; fol. 396 (current final folio): li monte plioit. . . . Explicit: fol. 396: . . . sans la dispensacion du souverain evesque.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) HI: King enthroned with sword. 2. fol. 1v (Prologue+) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 3. fol. 2v (I, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 4. fol. 3, 1st column (I, 1+) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 5. fol. 3, 2nd column (I, 2) HI: King enthroned with sword. 6. fol. 3v (I, 3) HI: King enthroned with sword. 7. fol. 4 (I, 4) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 8. fol. 5v (I, 6) HI: King enthroned with sword. 9. fol. 6 (I, 7) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 10. fol. 6v (I, 8) HI: King enthroned with sword. 11. fol. 7 (I, 9) HI: King enthroned with sword. 12. fol. 7v (I, 10) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 13. fol. 8 (I, 11) HI: King enthroned with sword. 14. fol. 8v (I, 12) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 15. fol. 9v (I, 13) HI: King enthroned with sword. 16. fol. 11 (I, 14) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 17. fol. 11v (I, 15) HI: King enthroned with sword. 18. fol. 12v (I, 16) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 19. fol. 13 (I, 17) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 20. fol. 14 (I, 18) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 21. fol. 14v (I, 19) King enthroned with sword. 22. fol. 15v (I, 20) HI: King enthroned with sword. 23. fol. 16v (I, 21) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 24. fol. 17v (I, 22) HI: King enthroned with sword. 25. fol. 18 (I, 23) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 26. fol. 18v (I, 24) HI: King enthroned with sword. 27. fol. 19 (I, 25) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 28. fol. 20v (II, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 29. fol. 21v (II, 2) HI: King enthroned with sword. 30. fol. 22v (II, 3) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 31. fol. 23 (II, 4) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 32. fol. 24v (II, 5) HI: King enthroned with sword. 33. fol. 25v (II, 6) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 34. fol. 26v (II, 7) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 35. fol. 28 (II, 8) HI: King enthroned with sword. 36. fol. 29 (II, 10) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 37. fol. 29v (II, 11) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 38. fol. 30v (II, 12) HI: King enthroned with sword. 39. fol. 31v (II, 13) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 40. fol. 32v (II, 14) HI: King enthroned with sword. 41. fol. 33 (II, 15) HI: King enthroned with sword. 42. fol. 34v (II, 16) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 43. fol. 35v (II, 17) HI: King enthroned with sword. 44. fol. 37 (II, 18) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 45. fol. 38v (II, 19) HI: King enthroned with sword. 46. fol. 39v (II, 20) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 47. fol. 40v (II, 21) HI: King enthroned with sword. 48. fol. 41v (II, 22) HI: King enthroned with sword. 49. fol. 42v (II, 23) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 50. fol. 45 (II, 25) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 51. fol. 46v (III, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 52. fol. 48 (III, 2) HI: King enthroned with sword. 53. fol. 50v (III, 3) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 54. fol. 74 (IV, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 55. fol. 90 (V, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 56. fol. 118 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) HI: King enthroned with sword. 57. fol. 132v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) HI: King enthroned with sword. 58. fol. 140v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) HI: Emperor enthroned with scepter and globe. 59. fol. 151v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 60. fol. 161 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) HI: King enthroned with sword. 61. fol. 169v (Louis the Pious, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 62. fol. 195v (Charles the Bald, 1) HI: King enthroned with sword. 63. fol. 211 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 64. fol. 214v (Louis the Stammerer, 5) HI: King enthroned with sword. 65. fol.

216v (Louis III, 1) HI: King enthroned with sword. 66. fol. 217 (Charles the Simple, 1) HI: King enthroned with sword. 67. fol. 220v (Louis IV, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 68. fol. 225 (Lothaire, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 69. fol. 227 (Louis V, 1) HI: King enthroned with sword. 70. fol. 227 (Charles, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 71. fol. 228 (Robert, 1) HI: King enthroned with sword. 72. fol. 232v (Henry, 1) HI: King enthroned with sword. 73. fol. 238 (Philip I, 1) HI: King enthroned with sword. 74. fol. 251v (Louis VI, 1) HI: King enthroned with sword. 75. fol. 276 (Louis VII, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 76. fol. 277v (Louis VII, 3) HI: King enthroned with sword. 77. fol. 290v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) HI: King enthroned with sword. 78. fol. 304v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter. 79. fol. 331v (Louis VIII, 1) HI: King enthroned with scepter.

STYLE: One artist.

PROVENANCE: Raoul le Prêtre, archdeacon of Cambrai (died in 1443).

REFERENCE: Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts, Catalogue général . . . Départements , 17:v, 259.

Castres, Bibliothèque Municipale
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to the end of the life of Philip Augustus, continued to the end of the life of Philip V, perhaps continued again to the end of the life of Charles IV, continued to the end of the life of Philip of Valois)

COLLATION: 1(1)8, first two lack; 2(9)8–35(273)8; 36(281)10, 10th excised; 37(290)8; 38(298)8; 39(306)10, 2nd and 10th excised; 40(314)8; 41(322)6; 42(328)–45(352)8; 46(360)6; 47(365)10; 48(375)8; 49(383)8; 50(391)8, last lacks; 51(399)6; 52(405)?, fol. 405 and flyleaf are all that remain. Incipits: fol. 3: -bre longuement furent expele Sicambrien . . . ; fol. 4: -voit i filz qui avoit nom Pharamont . . . ; fol. 289 (first ending): sergans a pie & a cheval . . . ; fol. 364 (second ending): -ne [crossed out] meselerie si que li siens . . . ; fol. 374 (third ending): -quitaine si s'escusa le roy . . . ; fol. ? (fourth ending): folio lacks. Explicits: fol. 289v (first ending): . . . et de son regne .xliij Explicit; fol. 364v (second ending): . . . et li autre barons [furent] pendus; fol 374 (third ending): . . . en moins de xiij ans fu [toute defaille & amortie] . . . ; fol. ? (fourth ending): folio lacks.

MINIATURES: Only those through fol. 364 are completed. 1. fol. 11 (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 2. fol. 14v (II, 1) Two ships at sea approach a town. 3. fol. 29 (II, 23) Caribert receives the realm. 4. fol. 31 (III, 1) King Chilperic and his women. 5. fol. 48 (III, 20) Battle. 6. fol. 53 (IV, 1) King Guntram designates his nephew Childebert (here Clotaire) as his heir. 7. fol. 57 (IV, 8+) Battle of Childebert's and Fredegunda's forces. 8. fol. 58v (IV, 10) Queen Brunhilda with the sons of Childebert. 9. fol. 63v (IV, 20) King Clotaire orders the murder of Queen Brunhilda. 10. fol. 67 (V, 1) Battle. 11. fol. 73 (V, 9) King Dagobert founds the abbey of Saint-Denis. 12. fol. 82 (V, 20) Barons pay homage to Clovis II, son of Dagobert. 13. fol. 86v (V, 25) King Charles Martel supervises punishment and imprisonment of two men. 14. fol. 89 (V, 28) Siege of Laon. 15. fol. 92v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Einhard and Turpin writing. 16. fol. 106 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Coronation of Charlemagne as emperor by Pope Leo III. 17. fol 113 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) King Charlemagne supervises the construction of Aix-la-Chapelle. 18. fol. 117 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 5) Emperor Charlemagne receives messengers with letters. 19. fol. 122v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 12+) The Fair of Lendit at Saint-Denis. 20. fol. 123v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Emperor and horsemen on field of battle. 21. fol. 128 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 5+) Aigolant refuses baptism from Charlemagne. 22. fol. 133 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Ganelon's gifts arrive at King Charlemagne's tent. 23. fol. 136v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 5) Charlemagne finds Roland dead at Roncevaux. 24. fol. 139 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 7+) Vision of Archbishop Turpin. 25. fol. 142 (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Charlemagne supervises the coronation of Louis as king of Aquitaine by the pope. 26. fol. 150 (Louis the Pious, 11) Emperor Louis

supervises the punishment of two men. 27. fol. 155 (Louis the Pious, 16) Nobles conspire against Louis. 28. fol. 157 (Louis the Pious, 18+) Imprisonment of Louis and his wife. 29. fol. 166 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 30. fol. 176v (Charles the Bald, 12) Vision of a monk of Saint-Denis. 31. fol. 177 (Charles the Bald, 13) Charles the Bald's vision of hell. 32. fol. 180 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Empress Richilda before Louis. 33. fol. 183 (Louis the Stammerer, 5) Coronation of a king. 34. fol. 185 (Louis the Stammerer, 7) Knights ride into a town. 35. fol. 185v (Louis the Stammerer, 7+) Coronation of Odo Capet. 36. fol. 186 (Louis the Stammerer, 7++) Battle. 37. fol. 188 (Raoul, 1) Coronation of Raoul. 38. fol. 189 (Louis IV, 1) King, queen, and child in conversation with a bishop. 39. fol. 193 (Lothaire, 1) King Lothaire enthroned. 40. fol. 195 (Louis V, 1) Death of Lothaire. 41. fol. 195 (Charles) Charles and his wife in prison. 42. fol. 195v (Hugh Capet, 1) Hugh Capet enthroned. 43. fol. 196 (Robert, 1) King Robert offers a prayer on the altar. 44. fol. 199v (Henry, 1) Conversation between Henry and two kings. 45. fol. 204v (Philip I, 1) King Philip receives barons. 46. fol. 215 (Louis VI, 1) Coronation of Louis. 47. fol. 235v (Louis VII, 1) King supervises construction. 48. fol. 237 (Louis VII, 3) King Louis VII and Emperor Conrad are greeted by the emperor of Constantinople. 49. fol. 248v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) King Louis VII prays for an heir. 50. fol. 259 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 22) French and English armies flank a city. 51. fol. 261v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Attack on a town. 52. fol. 263 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 3) The testament of King Philip. 53. fol. 275 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 23) Siege of a town. 54. fol. 277 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Amaury de Bene teaches seated clerics. 55. fol. 282v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 10) Battle of Bouvines. 56. fol. 285 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 14) Capture of Ferrand. 57. fol. 288 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 20) Count Ferrand taunted as he is led to prison. 58. fol. 290 (Louis VIII, 1) Coronation of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile.

The following represents a different translation of the lives of Saint Louis, Philip III, and Philip IV than was normally used in the Grandes Chroniques . I have assigned chapter numbers here that correspond to the structure of the text in B.N. fr. 10132. This text appears as well in B.R. 5 and Grenoble Ms. 407 rés. 59. fol. 293 (Saint Louis, 1) Coronation of Saint Louis. 60. fol. 346v (Philip IV, 1) Coronation of Philip IV. 61. fol. 347 (Philip IV, 2) Siege of Acre. 62. fol. 353v (Philip IV, 4) Battle of Courtrai. 63. fol. 361 (Louis X, 1) Coronation of Louis. 64. fol. 365 (Charles IV, 1) blank. 65. fol. 375 (Philip of Valois, 3) blank.

STYLE: Four artists. I (Master of the Roman de Fauvel ) (Geoffroy de Saint-Léger?), style of c. 1320–30s: gatherings 1–24, 26–35. II: gathering 25. III (Artist I of B.N. fr. 10132): gathering 36. IV: gatherings 37, 44, 45, 46.

PROVENANCE: On fol. 353v an added inscription states, "Ces croniques sunt Madame Jeanne d'Amboise, dame de Revel et de Thyphauges." Jeanne d'Amboise was the second wife of Guillaume Flotte, chancellor of France, whom she married sometime between 1339 and 1341.

REFERENCE: Edward Roesner, ed., Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS fonds français 146 (New York, forthcoming).

Chantilly, Musée Condé, Ms. 867
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8; 2(9)8; 3(17)2; 4(i[18])8–19(cxxi)8; 20(cxxix)8, 1st lacks; 21(cxxxvii)8–37(cclxv)8; 38(cclxxiii)8, 1st lacks; 39(cclxxxi)8–64(cccclxxxi)8; 65(cccclxxxix)2. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Cy commence la table de grans. . . . T: Premierement le prologue . . . ; fol. 2: en son tres par le conseil . . . ; fol. i(18): R: Ce sont les grans croniques de france. . . . T: C'il qui ceste livre commence . . . ; fol. ii(19): Paris si comme aucuns . . . ; fol. 490: -tume a porter les roys de France. . . . Explicit: fol. 490v: . . . grant foison de biens.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (preceding preliminary chapter list) Cleric writing. 2. fol. i (18) (Prologue) four parts: Flight from Troy, and Coronation of Francion/ French versus Romans/ King Pharamond enthroned in tent/ Queen Basina joins King Childeric. HI: Baptism of Clovis (illustrate Book 1). 3. fol. xiii verso (30v) (II, 1) Clotilda divides realm among her four sons. 4. fol. xxviii verso (III, 1) Caribert, Guntram, and Sigebert take revenge on their brother Chilperic, who sought the whole realm (illustrates II, 23). 5. fol. li (IV, 1) Guntram gives lance to Childeric. 6. fol. lxiii verso (V, 1) Dagobert supervises building of Saint-Denis (illustrates V, 9). 7. fol. lxxxvi verso (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Charlemagne and pope process into Saint Peter's (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1). 8. fol. cxxix lacks at the beginning of the life of Louis the Pious. 9. fol. clii (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 10. fol. clxvi (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Empress Richilda (as queen) presents sword to Louis. 11. fol. cc (Louis VI, 1) Messengers arrive too late to halt coronation of Louis. 12. fol. ccxxi (Louis VII, 1) Marriage of Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine; Louis's departure for the crusades (illustrates Louis VII, 2). 13. fol. ccxxxiij (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Christological vision; youthful Philip Augustus wears a crown; angel swoops down. 14. fol. cclxxiij lacks at the beginning of life of Louis VIII. 15. fol. cclxxvi (Saint Louis, 1) Coronation of nimbed Louis IX in a church. 16. fol. cccx (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, King of Sicily, arrives at deathbed of haloed Saint Louis in Tunis. 17. fol. cccxxvij verso (Philip IV, 1) Homage of Edward I of England to Philip IV. 18. fol. ccclii (Louis X, 1) Battle of Louis X against the Flemish. 19. fol. cccliij verso (Philip V, 1) Coronation. 20. fol. ccclviij (Charles IV, 1) Coronation. 21. fol. ccclxvii (Philip of Valois, 1) Battle of Philip against the Flemish (illustrates Philip of Valois, 5). 22. fol. ccciij verso (John the Good, 1) Battle of Poitiers (illustrates John the Good, 19). 23. fol. ccccxlvi (Charles V, 1) Charles V takes part in jousts; Queen Jeanne of Bourbon in stands. 24. fol. ccccxc verso (Charles VI, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: At least two artists illustrated this book. I (Virgil Master): fols. 1, i(18). II (Follower of the Virgil Master): the rest of the illustrations.

Geneva, Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Comites Latentes Ms. 182 A and B (formerly)
Grandes Chroniques de France (vol. A: from origins to the end of the life of Raoul, chapter 2; vol. B: from Louis X to 1380)

COLLATION: Vol. A: 1(1)8; 2(9)8, lacks 1st and 2nd; 3(15)8, lacks 4th and 5th; 4(21)8–6(37)8; 7(45)8, lacks 5th; 8(52)8–13(92)8; 14(100)8, lacks 1st; 15(107)8; 16(115)8, lacks 3rd; 17(122)8; 18(130)8, lacks 4th; 19(137)8–21(153)8; 22(161)8, lacks 3rd; 23(168)3, all single leaves. gatherings 14 and 15 should follow gathering 19. Vol. B: 1(1)8–11(81)8; 12(89)10; 13(99)8–15(115)8; 16(123)10; 17(133)1; 18(134)8. Gathering 18 originally headed vol. B. Vol A: Incipits: fol. 1: R: Ci commence les tables des grans croniques. . . . T: Le premiers, des divers opinions . . . ; fol. 2: Le xiij comment le roy childebert . . . ; fol. 9 (first two folios of chronicle lack, this was the third): qui estoit deux maestres . . . ; fol. 170: et commanda que chascun lui fist. . . . Explicit: fol. 170v: . . . a Rouen a grant companie des gens. Vol. B: Incipits: fol. 1: R: Cy commence la vie et les fais. . . . T: Apres phelippe le Bel . . . ; fol. 2: de Poitiers que tous ceulz . . . ; fol. 133: populaires alerent en la juerie de paris. . . . Explicit: fol. 133: . . . foison de biens [something scraped out]. R: Explicit. Gathering 18 of vol. B contains a prefatory paragraph, a table of contents for this volume, and a genealogy of the kings of France. When this was at the beginning of the manuscript, the incipits would have been the following: fol. 1 (now 134): R: Cy commence les nouvelles croniques. . . . T: La noble et plaisent memoire . . . ; fol. 2 (now 135): Nicolas buchet fut pendu. . . .

MINIATURES: Vol. A: 1. folio lacks at the beginning of Clovis's life (would have illustrated I, 15). 2. fol. 14 (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 3. bifolium containing II, 1 lacks. 4. fol. 31v (II,

23) Four kings enthroned on a low bench. 5. folio lacks between fols. 48 and 49; text jumps from III, 18 to III, 22. 6. fol. 66v (V, 2) Dagobert supervises construction of Saint-Denis (illustrates V, 9). 7. fol. 90v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Charlemagne in battle. 8. folio lacks between fols. 116 (end of Charlemagne, Bk. I) and 117 (beginning of Charlemagne, Bk. II). 9. folio lacks between fols. 132 (end of Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 2) and 133 (beginning of Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 3). 10. fol. 139 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 11. folio lacks between current fols. 99 (end of Charlemagne, Bk. V) and 100 (beginning of Louis the Pious, 1). 12. fol. 151 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 13. folio lacks between fol. 162 (beginning of Charles the Bald, 13) and 163 (end of Louis the Stammerer, 2) offsets. Vol. B: 1. fol. 14v (Philip of Valois, 1) HI: Barons discuss the royal succession. 2. fol. 49 (John the Good, 1) HI: King standing among nobles. 3. fol. 91 (Charles V, 1) HI: King standing among nobles. 4. fol. 132 (Charles VI, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: Virgil Master.

REFERENCES: Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, Tuesday, 30 November 1976, Bibliotheca Phillippica: Medieval Manuscripts , new series, part XI, lot 870; Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, Tuesday, 20 June 1989, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures , lot 46, 66–71.

Grenoble, Bibliothèque Hoche, Ms. 407 Rés.
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins through Philip of Valois)

COLLATION: 1(1)10, 1st lacks, 10th excised; 2(i)8, 1st excised; 3(ix)8–13(lxxxix)8; 14(lxxxxvii)8, 2nd lacks; 15(cv)12; 16(cxvii)8–26(clxxxxvii)8; 27(ccv)8, there is a ccvii bis; 28(ccxii)8–45(cccxlviii)8; 46(ccclvi)8, 4th lacks; 47(ccclxiiii)8. Incipits: fol. 1: lacks; fol. 2: voie de droiture . . . ; fol. i: lacks; fol. ii: le premier parole comment . . . ; fol. iii (second folio of text): dedenz embatus . . . ; fol. cccxxi: ii x^me maiz quant il le . . . ; fol. ccclxxi: et de madame agnes fille. . . . Explicit: fol. cccxxi: . . . plus guere fors que aus escos; fol. ccclxxi verso: . . . lui regner pardurablement apres sa mort.

MINIATURES: 1. (Prologue) cut out. 2. fol. ii (I, 1) Battle. 3. fol. iiij (I, 5+) Siege of Cambrai or Tournai. 4. fol. ix verso (I, 16) Clovis sends messengers to King Gondebaut of Burgundy/ They speak to Clotilda. 5. fol. xi verso (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis/ Clovis founds a church in Paris dedicated to Saint Peter. 6. fol. xv (II, 1) Clovis divides realm among his sons/ King Theoderic of Italy puts Pope John in prison (illustrates II, 2). 7. fol. xxxij verso (III, 1) Chilperic strangles Galswintha as she sleeps. 8. fol. lvi (IV, 1) King Guntram designates Childebert as his heir. 9. fol. lxxi (V, 1) HI: Hunter kills a stag. 10. fol. lxxiij (V, 4) Dagobert's vision of Saints Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius. 11. fol. lxxxxiiij (V, 28) King Charles Martel and his three sons. 12. fol. lxxxxviij (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) cut out. 13. fol. cxij (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) HI: King Charlemagne and Pope Leo judge those who maltreated the pope. 14. fol. cxix verso (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) HI: Charlemagne gives alms to pilgrims (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. III, 2)/ He supervises construction of Aix-la-Chapelle. 15. fol. cxxx (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) HI: Saint James appears to Charlemagne as he sleeps. 16. fol. cxxxix verso (Charlemagne, Bk. V, ch. list) HI: Charlemagne receives gifts from Kings Marsile and Bagliant. 17. fol. cxl (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) HI: Charlemagne defeats the Saracens. 18. fol. cxlviij (Louis the Pious, ch. list) HI: Charlemagne gives Aquitaine to Louis. 19. fol. cxlix (Louis the Pious, 1) HI: Barons present Louis with documents. 20. fol. clxxiij (Charles the Bald, 1) HI: Battle of Fontenoy. 21. fol. clxxxvii (Louis the Stammerer, 1) HI: Queen (sic ) Richilda presents sword and scepter to Louis. 22. fol. clxxxx verso (Louis the Stammerer, 5) HI: Coronation [should be two kings]. 23. fol. clxxxxij (Louis the Stammerer, 7) HI: Marriage of Louis Fainéant and a nun of Chiele. 24. fol. clxxxxij verso (Louis the Stammerer, 7+) HI: Coronation of Odo Capet in presence of the queen and Charles the Simple. 25. fol. clxxxxij verso (Charles the Simple, 1) HI: Battle. 26. fol. clxxxxix verso (Lothaire, 1) HI: Battle. 27. fol. cci verso (Charles, 1) HI: Battle. 28. fol. ccii (Hugh Capet, 1) HI: Marriage of Philip Augustus and

Elizabeth of Hainaut. 29. fol. ccij verso (Robert, 1) HI: Robert presents sequences he has written to a cleric. 30. fol. ccvi (Henry, 1) HI: Battle. 31. fol. ccx (Philip I, 1) HI: King receives a messenger. 32. fol. ccxx verso (Louis VI, 1) HI: Coronation. 33. fol. ccxxxix (Louis VI, 23) HI: Death of Philip, killed by a boar. 34. fol. ccxli (Louis VII, 1) HI: Louis worships with two clerics. 35. fol. ccliij (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) HI: King of England (?) surrenders to Philip. 36. fol. cclxv (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) HI: King Philip battles the English king. 37. fol. cclxxxx verso (Louis VIII, 1) HI: Man enthroned.

The following illustrate a different translation of the lives of Saint Louis, Philip III, and Philip IV than was normally used in the Grandes Chroniques . I have assigned chapter numbers here that correspond to the structure of this text in B.N. fr. 10132. This text also occurs in Castres, B.M. and B.R. 5. 38. fol. cclxxxxi verso (Saint Louis, 1) HI: Louis departs for the Crusades. 39. fol. cclxxxxij verso (Saint Louis, 5) HI: Arms of France. 40. fol. ccci verso (Philip IV, 1) HI: Homage of English to Philip. 41. fol. cccii (Philip IV, 2) HI: City of Acre. 42. fol. cccviij (Philip IV, 4) HI: Battle of Courtrai. 43. fol. cccxi (Philip IV, 5) HI: Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle. 44. fol. cccxvij verso (Louis X, 1) HI: King receives a noble.

The texts that follow correspond to those in the critical edition. 45. fol. cccxxi verso (Charles IV, 1) HI: Coronation. 46. fol. cccxxv verso (Charles IV, 9+) HI: Marriage of Charles and Jeanne d'Evreux. 47. fol. cccxxix (Charles IV, 13) HI: Coronation of Jeanne d'Evreux. 48. fol. cccxlviij (Philip of Valois, 18) HI: Battle at sea. 49. fol. cccliij verso (Philip of Valois, 25) HI: Spanish king fights Saracens.

STYLE: At least three artists. I (Artist II of B.N. fr. 10132): fols. 2, 4, 9v, 11v, 15, 32, 56, 71, 73, 94, 112, 119v, 130, 139v, 140, 148, 149, 173, 187, 190v, 192, 192v, (2 miniatures), 199v, 201v, 202, 202v, 206, 210, 220v, 239, 241, 253, 265v, 290v, 317v. II: fols. 291v (2 miniatures), 301v, 302, 308, 311. III (Artist of Egerton 931—The Pontifical of Guillaume de Melun): fols 321v, 325v, 329, 348, 353v.

London, British Library, Add. Ms. 15269
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–20(153)8; 21(161)8, there is a 163 bis; 22(168)8–28(216)8; 29(224)12; 30(236)8–34(268)8; 35(276)6; 36(282)8–40(314)8; 41(322)4; 42(326)8–53(414)8; 54(422)10; 55(432)8–65(512)8; 66(520)4. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Le proesme de l'auteur qui translata. . . . T: Celui qui ceste oeuvre commence . . . ; fol. 2: R: Le premier chapitre parle. . . . T: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of chronicle): aux troyens pour querre . . . ; fol. 523: loy par laquelle il avoit. . . . Explicit: fol. 532v: . . . foison de prisonniers.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 2 (I, 1) four parts: Ruler leaving city in formal procession/ Duke enthroned, one attendant noble wears robe strewn with ps / Clovis's battle with the Alemanni/ Clovis bears shield with three toads/ Coronation of Clovis. 2. fol. 14 (II, 1) Baptism of Clovis (illustrates I, 20). 3. fol. 30 (III, 1) Marriage of Chilperic and Galswintha. 4. fol. 52 (IV, 1) Battle. 5. fol. 64v (V, 1) Stag takes refuge at Saint-Denis from Dagobert and other members of a hunting party (illustrates V, 2). 6. fol. 87v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Charlemagne, on horseback, meets the pope outside Rome (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. I, 7). 7. fol. 99v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Coronation of Charlemagne as emperor by Pope Leo III. 8. fol. 106v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) emperor of Constantinople shows Emperor Charlemagne relics (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. III, 7). 9. fol. 115v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to sleeping Charlemagne. 10. fol. 124v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Death of Roland (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. V, 3). 11. fol. 132 (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Charlemagne has the pope crown Louis king of Aquitaine. 12. fol. 153 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 13. fol. 164v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Emperor (sic ) offers Louis a sword. 14. fol. 170 (Charles the Simple, 1) Saint Benedict appears to Count Sigillophes. 15. fol. 174 (Louis IV, 1) Coronation of Louis IV. 16. fol. 178v (Lothaire, 1) Duke Richard's

men setting fire to a household in France (illustrates Lothaire, 3). 17. fol. 181v (Hugh Capet, 1) Army of the count of Flanders submits to Hugh Capet's army (?). 18. fol. 182v (Robert, 1) Battle between French and English armies. 19. fol. 187 (Henry, 1) King watches the chief of the Norman soldiers handle a lion that had captured a goat (illustrates Henry, 6). 20. fol. 193v (Philip I, 1) Pope receives an emperor, accompanied by nobles and a duke. 21. fol. 204v (Louis VI, 1) The pope receives a message (illustrates Louis VI, 16). 22. fol. 223v (Louis VII, 1) King supervises construction. 23. fol. 236 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) At left, an angel swoops down to Louis VII, who sleeps holding a chalice; at right, the queen sits on her bed, holding a swaddled baby. 24. fol. 249v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Capture of Tours or Le Mans. 25. fol. 266v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Battle of Bouvines (illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 11). 26. fol. 283 (Saint Louis, 1) King enthroned at court; queen stands. 27. fol. 318 (Saint Louis, 98) Battle between Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily (bearing French arms) and Henry of Spain. 28. fol. 320v (Saint Louis, 105) Louis and his armies leave France in ships to go on crusade. 29. fol. 324v (Philip III, 1) French king and army attack a Saracen city. 30. fol. 342v (Philip IV, 1) Homage of Edward I of England before Philip IV. 31. fol. 369v (Louis X, 1) Coronation of Pope John (illustrates Louis X, 8). 32. fol. 376v (Charles IV, 1) Battle between the English army and that of the count of Dauphinois. 33. fol. 389 (Philip of Valois, 1) Homage of Edward III to Philip VI (illustrates Philip of Valois, 6). 34. fol. 434 (John the Good, 1) Coronation of John the Good and Bonne of Luxembourg. 35. fol. 439 (John the Good, 19) Battle of Poitiers. 36. fol. 478 (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon.

STYLE: Second artist of B.N. fr. 823.

London, British Library, Add. Ms. 21143
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–63(497)8; 64(505)2. A gathering that contained the table of contents and the prologue lacks before the first gathering. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Le premier chapitre parle. . . . T: Quatre cens et . . . ; fol. 2 (second folio of chronicle): -quictes par le pris de leur . . . ; fol. 505: la dite ville de par. . . . Explicit: fol. 505v: . . . grant foison de biens.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. (I, 1) two parts: Construction of Sicambria/ Coronation of Pharamond. 2. fol. 90 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) King Charlemagne and army ride against the Saracens. 3. fol. 136 (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Charlemagne has young Louis crowned king of Aquitaine. 4. fol. 160 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 5. fol. 173v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Battle. 6. fol. 189 (Robert, 1) A king supervises the coronation of a young man. 7. fol. 196v (Philip I, 1) Battle. 8. fol. 239v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Surrender of Tours or Le Mans (illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1). 9. fol. 286 (Saint Louis, 1) Louis IX arrives in the Holy Land. 10. fol. 339v (Philip IV, 1) Edward I pays homage to Philip IV. 11. fol. 381 (Philip of Valois, 1) King Philip of Valois enthroned; barons and clerics discuss royal succession. 12. fol. 420 (John the Good, 1) Coronation. 13. fol. 464v (Charles V, 1) Charles V on horseback and Jeanne of Bourbon in a litter enter a city.

STYLE: Principal artist of B.N. fr. 823.

London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. II
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: Burned with the rest of Mr. Cotton's collection, this manuscript is now bound in two volumes. Each folio is mounted in a paper frame, but the original structure can be reconstructed from catchwords. In the collation for vol. II, medieval foliation appears in brackets after the modern foliation. Vol. I (missing one gathering that contained the prologue): 1(1)8–10(73)8; 11(81)8, 1st lacks; 12(88)8; 13(96)8; 14(104)8, 6th lacks; 15(111)8–30(231)8; 31(239)8, 8th lacks. Vol II: 1(1[246])1 was the last folio of vol. I, gathering 31;

2(2[247])8–4(18[263])8; 5(26[271])8, 8th lacks; 6(33[278])8–12(81[326])8; 13(89[334])7, text continues without break; 14(96[341])8–31(232[477])8; 32(240[485])3, at least one folio lacks at the end. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Cy commence la table du premier livre. . . . T: Comment les francois sont . . . ; fol. 2: R: Comment les francois. . . . T: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of the chronicle): -ose entrer es lieux . . . ; last folio lacks. Explicit: last folio lacks.

MINIATURES: The following corrects and expands Meiss. Vol. I: 1. fol. 1 (Ch. list, Bk. I) Monk presents book to king. 2. fol. 2 (I, 1) two-column miniature: King Priam of Troy enthroned. 3. fol. 8v (I, 15) Baptism of Clovis (illustrates I, 20). 4. fol. 11v (I, 20) Clovis receives the French arms from heaven (no source in chronicle). 5. fol. 15v (II, 1) Clotilda divides the realm among her four sons. 6. fol. 31 (II, 23) The division of the realm among the four sons of Clothaire. 7. fol. 44v (III, 14) Battle of a nimbed monk and the devil. 8. fol. 48v (III, 19) Murder of King Chilperic by order of Fredegunda. 9. fol. 54v (IV, 1) King Guntram designates Childebert, his nephew, as his heir. 10. fol. 59v (IV, 10) In Brunhilda's presence, the two sons of Childeric divide the realm. 11. fol. 64v (IV, 20) Torture of Brunhilda. 12. fol. 67 (V, 1) Clotaire holds council; Dagobert cuts the beard of his teacher (illustrates V, 3). 13. fol. 72v (V, 9) King Dagobert receives a bishop. 14. fol. 73 (V, 9) Dagobert supervises the construction of Saint-Denis. 15. fol. 80v (V, 19) Bust of a woman. 16. folio lacks between fols. 80–81 (V, 22). 17. fol. 87v (V, 28) The sons of Charles Martel; Griffon thrown into a dungeon. 18. fol. 90v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) King Charlemagne blessed by the pope. 19. fol. 103 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome. 20. folio lacks between fols. 108–109 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1). 21. fol. 118 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James and an angel appear to the sleeping Emperor Charlemagne and show him the starry sky. 22. fol. 124 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 8) Battle between Roland and Ferragut. 23. fol. 127 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Ganelon delivers his message to King Marsile. 24. fol. 129v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 4) Archbishop Turpin's vision of the death of Roland. 25. fol. 130 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 5) Charlemagne and army find the body of Roland. 26. fol. 131 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 6) Funeral of Roland in the church of Saint Romain-de-Blaye. 27. fol. 131v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 7) Charlemagne returns to France. 28. fol. 133 (Louis the Pious, 1) Coronation. 29. fol. 156v (Charles the Bald, 1) Dream of Charles the Bald (illustrates Charles the Bald, 13). 30. fol. 169v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Empress Richilda presents Louis with a sword and scepter. 31. fol. 172v (Louis the Stammerer, 5) Coronation of Carloman and Louis III. 32. fol. 173v (Louis the Stammerer, 6) Carloman in his tent at the siege of Vienne. 33. fol. 174v (Louis the Stammerer, 7) The coronation of Odo Capet. 34. fol. 175 (Charles the Simple, 1) The archbishop of Rouen welcomes Rollo, the first duke of Normandy. 35. fol. 176 (Charles the Simple, 2+) Baptism of Rollo. 36. fol. 178 (Louis IV, 1) Bishop of Sens brings letter to the King of England. 37. fol. 182 (Lothaire, 1) Coronation. 38. fol. 184v (Robert, 1) Robert writing. 39. fol. 188 (Henry, 1) Veneration of a body claimed to be that of Saint Denis (illustrates Henry, 4). 40. fol. 192v (Philip I, 1) Philip I received by the pope (illustrates Philip I, 10). 41. fol. 202 (Louis VI, 1) Murder of Guy, lord of La Roche-Guyon (illustrates Louis VI, 4). 42. fol. 222 (Louis VII, 1) Battle of Louis VII and his father, Louis VI. 43. fol. 233v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) An angel speaks to Louis VII and Queen Alix. 44. fol. 241 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 17) Rollo the Tyrant sets out to capture Normandy. Vol. II: 45. fol. 1 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Capture of Tours or Le Mans. 46. fol. 4v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 6) Young, ailing Louis VIII, carried in a cart, praying to the reliquary of Saint Denis. 47. fol. 8 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 12) Richard of England pays homage to Philip Augustus. 48. fol. 10v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 16) Philip Augustus orders the despoiling of Normandy. 49. fol. 14 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 23) Surrender of Rouen to Philip Augustus. 50. fol. 16v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Philip Augustus supervises the punishment of heretics. 51. fol. 20v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 8) Albigensian prisoners led naked from Carcassone. 52. fol. 24 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 14) Battle. 53. fol. 29

(Louis VIII, 1) Saint Valery appears to Hugh Capet. 54. folio lacks between fols. 32–33 (Saint Louis, 1). 55. fol. 36 (Saint Louis, 13) Louis IX venerates a relic. 56. fol. 40v (Saint Louis, 31) Battle between Louis IX and Henry III of England. 57. fol. 45 (Saint Louis, 45) Louis IX receives messengers from the Great Khan. 58. fol. 48v (Saint Louis, 54) French and Saracen armies in Egypt. 59. fol. 53 (Saint Louis, 70) Battle between the counts of Flanders and Holland. 60. fol. 56v (Saint Louis, 82) Louis IX gives provisions. 61. fol. 61 (Saint Louis, 95) Battle between Charles of Anjou and Conradin. 62. fol. 64 (Saint Louis, 105) Louis IX sailing to Tunis. 63. fol. 67v (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, fights the Saracens in Tunis. 64. fol. 72v (Philip III, 14) Tomb of Saint Louis. 65. fol. 73 (Philip III, 15) Coronation procession of Philip III. 66. fol. 80v (Philip III, 37) Philip III listens to Cardinal Collet. 67. fol. 85 (Philip IV, 1) Edward I of England pays homage to Philip. 68. fol. 88v (Philip IV, 12) Guy, count of Flanders, in secret meeting with Edward I of England. 69. fol. 93v (Philip IV, 33) Philip receives papal messengers. 70. fol. 95v (Philip IV, 38) Charles of Valois in the presence of Pope Boniface. 71. fol. 100v (Philip IV, 63) Knights Templar before pope and king. 72. fol. 105 (Philip IV, 70) Philip supervises the burning of the Master Templar. 73. fol. 109 (Louis X, 1) Calamities in the reign of Louis X. 74. fol. 110v (Philip V, 1) Burning of Jews under Philip V. 75. fol. 115 (Charles IV, 1) Dissolution of the marriage of Charles IV and Blanche. 76. fol. 124v (Philip of Valois, 1) Barons discuss the royal succession. 77. fol. 137 (Philip of Valois, 16) Battle of French and English armies. 78. fol. 143v (Philip of Valois, 25) cut out. 79. fol. 152v (Philip of Valois, 39) Battle of Crécy. 80. fol. 154v (Philip of Valois, 41) Charles of Blois battling the English. 81. fol. 160v (John the Good, 1) Coronation. 82. fol. 166 (John the Good, 19) Battle of Poitiers. 83. fol. 173v (John the Good, 47) Charles, king of Navarre, follows the biers of those decapitated at Rouen. 84. fol. 175v (John the Good, 58) Murders of the marshals of Clermont and Champagne. 85. fol. 181 (John the Good, 83) Meeting of Charles, regent of France, and Charles, king of Navarre, at which they swore a truce. 86. fol. 183 (John the Good, 89) Murder of Étienne Marcel and companions. 87. fol. 200v (John the Good, 140) Funeral of John the Good. 88. fol. 202v (Charles V, 1) Coronation. 89. fol. 205 (Charles V, 9) Bertrand Du Guesclin taken prisoner. 90. fol. 217 (Charles V, 21) Marriage of Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and Margaret of Flanders. 91. fol. 220v (Charles V, 30) Charles V makes Du Guesclin constable of France. 92. fol. 224v (Charles V, 46) Charles V holds council. 93. fol. 229v (Charles V, 66) Charles V feasts the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV, in the Grande Salle of the palace. 94. fol. 238v (Charles V, 102) Charles V receives the cardinal of Limoges. 95. fol. 242v (Charles VI, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: At least three artists. I (Boucicaut Master and assistants): Vol. I, fols. 1, 2, 8v, 11v, 15v, 31, 44v, 48v, 59v, 64v, 67, 72v, 73, 87v, 90v, 103, 118, 127, 129v, 130, 131, 131v, 135, 156v, 169v, 184v, 188, 192v, 202, 222, 233v, 241, and Vol. II, fols. 4v, 8, 10v, 14, 16v, 29, 36, 40v, 45, 48v, 53, 56v, 61, 64, 67v, 72v, 73, 80v, 85, 88v, 93v, 95v, 100v, 105, 109, 110v, 115, 124v, 137, 152v, 154v, 160v, 166, 173v, 175v, 200v, 202v, 205, 217, 220v, 229v, 238v, 242v. II: Vol. I, fols. 54v, 124, 175, 176, 178, 182, and Vol. II, fols. 1, 20v, 24, 181, 183, 224v. III (Egerton Workshop): Vol. I, fols. 172v, 173v, 174v.

PROVENANCE: Although not listed in any surviving inventory, this manuscript may have been royal. It displays the arms of France in vol. I, fol. 2, and vol. II, fol. 242v.

REFERENCES: Léopold Delisle, "Notes sur quelques manuscrits du Musée Britannique," Mémoires de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile de France 4(1878):183–238; Millard Meiss, The Boucicaut Master , Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, no. 1 (London, 1968), 92–95, pls. 419–29.

London, British Library, Cotton Vitellus E II
Grandes Chroniques de France (fragments)
See Paris, Société des autographs des manuscrits français, Ex-Bute Ms.

London, British Library, Royal 16 G VI
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1270)

COLLATION: 1(1)2 (This added in the late fourteenth century); 2(3)12–9(87)12; 10(99)12, 1st is substituted folio; 11(111)12–21(231)12; 22(243)12, 1st substituted folio; 23(255)12–37(423)12; 38(435)12, 11v and 12 blank and unruled. Incipits: fol. 3: R: Prologue es gestes des roys de France. . . . T: C'il qui ceste . . . ; fol. 4: -cion elle fu . . . ; fol. 5: de lombardie qui par . . . ; fol. 6 (2nd folio of chronicle): terre qui a nom . . . ; fol. 445: sires d'erloses. . . . Explicit: fol. 445: . . . de miracles par les merites du bon roy.

MINIATURES: The following corrects and expands Warner. The foliation used corresponds to the modern foliation in the manuscript. 1. fol. 3 (Prologue) two-column miniature: Coronation of Pharamond—on pedestals to his right, a pagan ruler; to his left, two other kings of France. 2. fol. 4v (I, 1) two-column miniature: Priam sends Paris; rape of Helen; siege of Troy. 3. fol. 5v (I, 3) Valentinian sacks Troy. 4. fol. 7v (I, 6) two-column miniature: Huns sack Orléans; Saint Agnan's prayer. 5. fol. 9 (I, 10) two-column miniature: Queen Basina follows King Childeric; she sends him out into the night; his three visions. 6. fol. 10 (I, 11) Saint Severinus prophesies to Odoacer; fighting. 7. fol. 11 (I, 13) Senators plot with emperor against King Thierry; Ptolemy relates a fable to the emperor. 8. fol. 12v (I, 15) two-column miniature: King Clovis receives Saint Remi's messenger; he restores the urn; he slays the rash knight. 9. fol. 14 (I, 17) King Clovis sends Aurelian with a letter; Aurelian, Gondebald, and Clotilda. 10. fol. 15 (I, 18) two-column miniature: King Clovis defeats the Alemanni by prayer to Christ. 11. fol. 16 (I, 20) two-column miniature: Baptism of King Clovis. 12. fol. 17 (I, 21) King Alaric receives King Clovis's messenger. 13. fol. 18 (I, 22) two-column miniature: Clovis sends for a sign of victory; the church of Tours. 14. fol. 19 (I, 24) Kanacaire enthroned. 15. fol. 21 (II, 1) two-column miniature in four compartments: Kings Clodomire, Childebert, Theoderic, and Clotaire—the four sons of Clovis. 16. fol. 22 (II, 2) two-column miniature: Pope John before King Theoderic and Emperor Justinian. 17. fol. 23 (II, 3) Justinian sleeps, his head in Antonia's lap, shaded by an eagle. 18. fol. 24v (II, 5) Death of King Amaury. 19. fol. 25v (II, 6) two-column miniature: Theoderic and Childebert capture cities. 20. fol. 27v (II, 9) Kings Clotaire and Childebert send a messenger to Queen Clotilda after the arrival of their nephews. 21. fol. 29v (II, 12) Belisarius restores the crown to Justinian. 22. fol. 30v (II, 13) Saint Benedict, Pope Sylvester, and Emperor Justinian. 23. fol. 31v (II, 14) two-column miniature: King Clotaire receives envoys for peace; Clotilda prays for peace to Saint Martin at Tours. 24. fol. 32v (II, 15) two-column miniature: Religious procession at Saragossa; the king summons the bishop. 25. fol. 34v (II, 17) two-column miniature: Funeral of Queen Clotilda. 26. fol. 36 (II, 18) Battle of French and Saxons. 27. fol. 37 (II, 19) Burning of the Church of Saint-Martin at Tours. 28. fol. 38 (II, 20) two-column miniature: Arrest and abuse of Pope Virgilius by imperial soldiers. 29. fol. 38v (II, 21) Totila besieges Rome. 30. fol. 40v (II, 23) two-column miniature: Intrigues of King Clotaire's sons; Chilperic expelled from Paris. 31. fol. 42v (II, 25) Marriage of King Sigebert and Brunhilda. 32. fol. 43v (III, 1) two-column miniature: King Chilperic and his women; he strangles Queen Galswintha. 33. fol. 47 (III, 4) Murder of Sigebert. 34. fol. 49 (III, 5) King Childebert speaks to Saint Germain. 35. fol. 50 (III, 6) Emperor Tiberius finds God-given treasure. 36. fol. 50v (III, 7) two-column miniature: King Guntram murders two nephews; death of his own children. 37. fol. 52 (III, 8) King Chilperic holds council at Paris. 38. fol. 54 (III, 10) Peace of Guntram and Sigebert. 39. fol. 55v (III, 11) Fredegunda reproves King Chilperic; he burns his edicts. 40. fol. 58 (III, 13) two-column miniature: Emperor Maurice sends King Chilperic gold; he attacks the Lombards; they buy him off. 41. fol. 59 (III, 14) Leudastes submits to King Chilperic; his death. 42. fol. 62 (III, 15+/16) two-column miniature: Miracle at the altar; baptism of Jews; death of Pricus; Aetherius and the criminous clerk. 43. fol. 63 (III, 17) King Chilperic slays the count of Rouen. 44. fol. 64 (III, 18) two-column miniature: Witches

burnt and tortured; Mummolus hanged; Fredegunda melts her child's plate. 45. fol. 65 (III, 19) Murder of King Chilperic. 46. fol. 66 (III, 20) two-column miniature: Treasure put in sanctuary of Notre-Dame; Guntram entertains Fredegunda. 47. fol. 67 (III, 21) King Childebert and Gondoald; Boso escapes by swimming; Gondoald saluted as king. 48. fol. 69 (III, 23) A poor man warns Guntram; Fredegunda mutilates Olericus (i.e., clericus). 49. fol. 69v (III, 24) two-column miniature: Eberulph in sanctuary; he beats a clerk; he is murdered. 50. fol. 71 (III, 25) Gondoald and Mummolus ill-use Manulphus. 51. fol. 72v (IV, 1) two-column miniature: Guntram receives envoys from Childebert; he gives Childebert a lance; he counsels Childebert. 52. fol. 74 (IV, 3) Leudegesil confers with Mummolus outside a beseiged city. 53. fol. 75 (IV, 4) Gondoald's prayer as he is betrayed. 54. fol. 76 (IV, 5) Fredegunda's daughter brought back; a giant given to Guntram (no textual source). 55. fol. 77 (IV, 7) Bishops translate relics of Christ's robe; Guntram receives envoys. 56. fol. 78 (IV, 8) Fredegunda shows her child to the army. 57. fol. 80v (IV, 11) Apparition of an angel at the battle of Dormelles. 58. fol. 81 (IV, 12) two-column miniature: Battle of Étampes. 59. fol. 82v (IV, 14) Theoderic recalls Bishop Desiderius; King Theoderic receives the daughter of the Spanish king. 60. fol. 84 (IV, 16) Peace between Theoderic and Theodebert. 61. fol. 85 (IV, 17) Theodebert murdered in his treasury; his head thrown out. 62. fol. 85v (IV, 18) Quarrel of Theoderic and Brunhilda; Theoderic poisoned in his bath. 63. fol. 86 (IV, 19) two-column miniature: Capture of Brunhilda and of Theoderic's sons; Sigebert and Corbus killed. 64. fol. 87 (IV, 20) Execution of Brunhilda, dragged by hands and hair behind a horse. 65. fol. 88v (IV, 23) Maurice kneels to his son-in-law Philip; murder of Maurice and his family. 66. fol. 89v (IV, 24) two-column miniature: Death of Romhilda; her daughters save their honor. 67. fol. 90 (IV, 25) King Clotaire holds a council. 68. fol. 91v (V, 1) two-column miniature: King Clotaire defeats the Saxons; Lombards give him presents. 69. fol. 92 (V, 2) two-column miniature: Dagobert hunting; the stag takes refuge on the tombs of Rusticus and Eleutherius. 70. fol. 93v (V, 3) two-column miniature: Dagobert cuts his tutor's beard; he takes refuge at the tomb. 71. fol. 94v (V, 4) Dagobert's vision and reconciliation with King Clotaire. 72. fol. 95v (V, 5) two-column miniature: Ernulph reconciles Dagobert to Clotaire; Eusebius gives Adalwald a potion; death of Rodoald. 73. fol. 97 (V, 6) two-column miniature: Dagobert wounded; Clotaire at the Weser removes his helmet; he carries off Bertoald's head. 74. fol. 98 (V, 7) Godin accused by his stepmother; he is killed at table. 75. fol. 98v (V, 8) Council of Clichy; death of Ermenharius. 76. fol. 99v (V, 9) Dagobert founds Saint-Denis. 77. fol. 101 (V, 10) Dagobert does justice; Brunulph slain. 78. fol. 101v (V, 11) Dagobert and Ragintruda in bed. 79. fol. 102v (V, 12) two-column miniature: Phocas throws treasure into the sea; his death. 80. fol. 104 (V, 13) Envoys complain to the king of Sclavonia of the murder of merchants. 81. fol. 105 (V, 14) Gifts of Dagobert to Saint-Denis. 82. fol. 106 (V, 15) Gifts of Dagobert to Saint-Denis. 83. fol. 107 (V, 16) two-column miniature: Dagobert makes his testament. 84. fol. 108 (V, 17) Dagobert pardons the Gascons. 85. fol. 109 (V, 18) Dagobert's deathbed. 86. fol. 110 (V, 19) Ansoald's voyage; meeting with John the hermit; the hermit's vision. 87. fol. 111 (V, 20) Homage done to Clovis; Nantilda orders her affairs. 88. fol. 112 (V, 12) Clovis and Landry give exemption to Saint-Denis. 89. fol. 112v (V, 22) two-column miniature: Clovis takes a bone of Saint Denis's; he makes peace with the monks. 90. fol. 113v (V, 23) Bathilda founds Corbie and Chelles. 91. fol. 114v (V, 24) Ebroin defeats the Austrasians. 92. fol. 116 (V, 25) two-column miniature: Battle of Chilperic and Charles Martel. 93. fol. 117v (V, 26) two-column miniature: King Charles at the battle of Poitiers. 94. fol. 118v (V, 27) two-column miniature: Siege of Avignon. 95. fol. 119v (V, 27+) Deathbed of Charles Martel (here a king). 96. fol. 120 (V, 28) two-column miniature: Siege of Laon; agreement between the brothers. 97. fol. 121 (V, 29) Pepin defeats the Lombards. 98. fol. 122v (V, 30) Pepin holds a parliament; his army. 99. fol. 124 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) two-column miniature: Einhard and Turpin writing and in discussion with barons. 100. fol. 125 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 2) Battle. 101. fol. 126 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 3) Emperor

Charlemagne takes hostages of Tassilo of Bavaria. 102. fol. 127v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 4) two-column miniature: Battles in Aquitaine. 103. fol. 129 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 5) two-column miniature: Saxon raids; Fritzlar chapel miraculously saved from fire by angels. 104. fol. 130v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 6) two-column miniature: Emperor Charlemagne holds a parliament; Saxons submit to him; he has Saxons baptized. 105. fol. 131v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 7) two columns: Tassilo, duke of Bavaria, pays homage to Charlemagne. 106. fol. 132 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 7) two-column miniature: The pope says mass before Charlemagne and Hildegarde; he crowns Pepin and Louis, their sons. 107. fol. 133 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 8) Charlemagne kills surrendered Saxons. 108. fol. 133v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 8) Charlemagne defeats Saxons. 109. fol. 134v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 9) two-column miniature: Charlemagne at mass; he defeats the Bretons. 110. fol. 135v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 10) two-column miniature: Charlemagne divides his army in three; surrender of Tassilo. 111. fol. 137 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 11) two-column miniature: Charlemagne divides his army in two; he takes two castles. 112. fol. 138v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 12) two-column miniature: Charlemagne holds a parliament; he burns a town in Saxony; Constantine blinded. 113. fol. 140 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 13) two-column miniature: Pope Leo III maltreated; in sanctuary; rescued by Winigisius. 114. fol. 141v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) two-column miniature: Charlemagne crowned emperor by Pope Leo III. 115. fol. 143 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 2) two-column miniature: Charlemagne moves the Saxons from beyond the Elbe; Leo celebrates a mass before Charlemagne. 116. fol. 144 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 3) two-column miniature: Charlemagne and scholars watch eclipses and transit of Mercury; plate and tents given to Charlemagne. 117. fol. 145v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 4) two-column miniature: Eardwulf, deposed king of Northumbria, visits Charlemagne; Charlemagne sends envoys with him to Rome. 118 fol. 147 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 5) two-column miniature: Charlemagne receives an envoy from Amor of Saragossa; parley; voyage of Pepin. 119. fol. 148v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 6) two-column miniature: Peace with Denmark; Charlemagne divides his army into three. 120. fol. 149v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 7) two-column miniature: Charlemagne has a lectionary written; the angel shows Saint John the river of crystal; Charlemagne crowns his son emperor. 121. fol. 151 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Charlemagne builds Aix-la-Chapelle. 122. fol. 151v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) two-column miniature: Charlemagne's bridge over the Rhine burnt; he gives orders to a bishop. 123. fol. 152v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 2) two-column miniature: Charlemagne welcomes pilgrims. 124. fol. 153v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 3) two-column miniature: Charlemagne welcomes Clement Scotus and a companion; he gives Tours abbey to Alcuin. 125. fol. 155 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 4) two-column miniature: Saracens sack Jerusalem; the patriarch before Constantine; Constantine sends envoys to Charlemagne. 126. fol. 156v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 5) two-column miniature: Charlemagne receives the envoys; Turpin reads the letter in public. 127. fol. 157v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 6) two-column miniature: The emperors meet; Jerusalem recovered. 128. fol. 158v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 7) Charlemagne takes council. 129. fol. 159 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 7) two-column miniature: The Crown of Thorns divided for Charlemagne. 130. fol. 160 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 8) two-column miniature: The wood of the Cross divided. 131. fol. 161 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 9) two-column miniature: The nail heals the sick. 132. fol. 161v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 10) two-column miniature: Return of Charlemagne from the East. 133. fol. 162v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 11) two-column miniature: The sick kneeling before the relics. 134. fol. 163 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 12) two-column miniature: Exhibition of relics by Charlemagne at the Fair of Lendit at Aix-la-Chapelle. 135. fol. 165 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) two-column miniature: Charlemagne's vision of the milky way; Saint James appears to Charlemagne. 136. fol. 166 (Charlemagne. Bk. IV, 2) two-column miniature: Charlemagne opens the way to Spain. 137. fol. 167 (Charlemagne. Bk. IV, 3) two-column miniature: Agolant and his Moors attack a castle. 138. fol. 168v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 4) two-column miniature: Charlemagne (bearing his arms) beseiges Agolant in Agen. 139. fol. 170 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 5) two-column miniature: Charlemagne and his court in camp.

140. fol. 171 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 6) Battle. 141. fol. 171v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 6) two-column miniature: Battle. 142. fol. 172v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 7) two-column miniature: Prowess of the giant Ferragut; Roland and Ferragut battle; Roland and Ferragut declare truce. 143. fol. 173 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 8) Roland parleys with Ferragut; he slays Ferragut. 144. fol. 174v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 9) two-column miniature: Battle; Charlemagne takes the standard. 145. fol. 175v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 10) Charlemagne gives privileges to Compostela; he worships at Saint-James. 146. fol. 177 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) two-column miniature: Ganelon before Marsile and Baligans; their presents to Charlemagne. 147. fol. 178 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 2) Battle of Roncevaux. 148. fol. 178v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 2) two-column miniature: Roland binds his prisoner; battle. 149. fol. 179v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 3) Death of Roland in presence of his brothers. 150. fol. 180v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 4) two-column miniature: Baldwin and Turpin bring the news to Charlemagne; Charlemagne mourns over Roland. 151. fol. 181v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 5) two-column miniature: Funeral of Roland; punishment of Ganelon. 152. fol. 182 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 6) Burial of the dead. 153. fol. 182v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 6) two-column miniature: Burial of the dead. 154. fol. 183 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 7) two-column miniature: Charlemagne in council at Saint-Denis; he honors Saint Denis, who holds the top portion of his cranium. 155. fol. 185 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 9) two-column miniature: Roland at Grenoble receives a messenger; he prays in a tent; slaughter of inhabitants. 156. fol. 185v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 10) two-column miniature: Raid of the Mansur of Cordova; he plunders Saint-James; punishment of the Saracens. 157. fol. 187v (Louis the Pious, 1) two-column miniature: Hildegarde and her children; birth of Louis the Pious; his baptism. 158. fol. 189 (Louis the Pious, 2) two-column miniature: Meeting of a king and Charlemagne; Charlemagne leaves Louis with Queen Fastrade. 159. fol. 189v (Louis the Pious, 3) two-column miniature: Charlemagne in council in Toulouse; Louis's bethrothal to Ermengarde; his marriage; coronation. 160. fol. 190v (Louis the Pious, 4) two-column miniature: Louis divides his army into three; surrender of Barcelona; priests enter the city. 161. fol. 192 (Louis the Pious, 5) two-column miniature: Passage of the Ebro; a bather discovers horse dung. 162. fol. 193 (Louis the Pious, 6) two-column miniature: Louis holds a parliament; Gascons summoned to yield; their punishment and submission. 163. fol. 194 (Louis the Pious, 7) two-column miniature: Deathbed of Charlemagne; news brought to Theodulph and to Louis; meeting of Theodulph and Louis. 164. fol. 195v (Louis the Pious, 8) two-column miniature: Messengers between Louis and Constantinople; Louis holds a parliament at Aix-la-Chapelle. 165. fol. 197 (Louis the Pious, 10) two columns: Accident to Louis on a stairway leading from his chapel; council at Aix-la-Chapelle. 166. fol. 198v (Louis the Pious, 11) two-column miniature: Louis has a prelate degraded and shorn; Bernard blinded; death of Marcoman of Brittany. 167. fol. 199v (Louis the Pious, 12) two-column miniature: Duke Borna complains to Louis; siege of a castle. 168. fol. 201 (Louis the Pious, 13) two-column miniature: Lothaire receives an envoy; Pope Paschasius crowns Lothaire emperor; Drogo chosen as bishop. 169. fol. 202v (Louis the Pious, 14) two-column miniature: Louis holds a parliament; submission of Bretons. 170. fol. 203v (Louis the Pious, 15+) two-column miniature: Louis receives a present of plate; Abbot Hilduin (haloed) of Saint-Denis translates saints Peter, Paul, and Marcellus. 171. fol. 205 (Louis the Pious, 16) Louis sends traitors to prison. 172. fol. 206v (Louis the Pious, 17) two-column miniature: Purgation of Judith; traitors pardoned. 173. fol. 207v (Louis the Pious, 18+) Louis's sons set Pope Gregory against him. 174. fol. 208 (Louis the Pious, 18+) Meeting of Louis and Gregory. 175. fol. 209v (Louis the Pious, 19) two-column miniature: Lothaire takes Louis from Soissons; envoys from Constantinople. 176. fol. 211 (Louis the Pious, 20) two-column miniature: Odo surprised; burning of Châlons. 177. fol. 212v (Louis the Pious, 21) two-column miniature: Treating for peace; sack of a town. 178. fol. 214 (Louis the Pious, 22) two-column miniature: Louis at Mass; the comet; Louis questions the astronomer. 179. fol. 215v (Louis the Pious, 23) two-column miniature: Louis receives messengers; Louis holds a parliament. 180. fol. 217 (Louis the Pious, 24) two-column

miniature: Louis, on sickbed, gives crown and sword to Lothaire and has an inventory of treasure made. 181. fol. 219 (Charles the Bald, 1) two-column miniature: Battle of Fontenoy. 182. fol. 220 (Charles the Bald, 2) two-column miniature: Charles, setting out on a journey, met by messengers. 183. fol. 221v (Charles the Bald, 3) two-column miniature: Louis the German sends a messenger. 184. fol. 222v (Charles the Bald, 3+) Messengers riding. 185. fol. 223 (Charles the Bald, 4) two-column miniature: Charles leaves Aix-la-Chapelle; his marriage with Richilda. 186. fol. 224 (Charles the Bald, 5) two-column miniature: Louis the German, on sickbed, receives messengers from the pope; Ratislaus blinded. 187. fol. 225v (Charles the Bald, 6) two-column miniature: Louis the German dictates an oath to his sons; Carloman, son of Charles the Bald, blinded. 188. fol. 227v (Charles the Bald, 7) two-column miniature: Messengers between Louis the German and the pope. 189. fol. 229 (Charles the Bald, 8) two-column miniature: Carloman, son of Louis the German, makes terms with Charles. 190. fol. 230v (Charles the Bald, 9) two-column miniature: Emperor Charles at the Council of Metz. 191. fol. 231v (Charles the Bald, 10) two-column miniature: Battle of Charles and Louis, his nephew. 192. fol. 232v (Charles the Bald, 11) King Charles receives two bishops as envoys. 193. fol. 233v (Charles the Bald, 12) Body of Charles taken to Saint-Denis by two bishops in presence of Louis the Stammerer. 194. fol. 234 (Charles the Bald, 13) Monk of Saint-Denis has a vision of Charles. 195. fol. 235v (Charles the Bald, 14) two-column miniature: Charles and monks; Charles gives a town to Saint Denis, who holds the top half of his head. 196. fol. 237v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) two-column miniature: Louis the Stammerer receives the sword and scepter from Empress Richilda; his coronation. 197. fol. 239 (Louis the Stammerer, 2) two-column miniature: The pope refuses to crown the queen; Assembly of pope and prelates at Troyes. 198. fol. 240 (Louis the Stammerer, 3) two-column miniature: Louis the Stammerer makes peace with his cousin Louis, son of Louis the German. 199. fol. 241 (Louis the Stammerer, 4) two-column miniature: Deathbed of Louis the Stammerer; regalia entrusted to Thierry. 200. fol. 242 (Louis the Stammerer, 5) two-column miniature: Coronation of Carloman and Louis III. 201. fol. 243v (Louis the Stammerer, 6) two-column miniature: Carloman returns from Vienne; the defeat of the Normans. 202. fol. 244v (Louis the Stammerer, 7) Translation of saints' relics (illustrates Louis the Stammerer, 6+). 203. fol. 245 (Louis the Stammerer, 7) Onslaught of Normans. 204. fol. 245v (Charles the Simple, 1) two-column miniature: Flight of Louis, son of Charles the Simple, and his mother; Normans burn a church; Saint Benedict appears to Sigillophus. 205. fol. 247 (Charles the Simple, 2) two-column miniature: Fight with the Normans; Charles the Simple gives his daughter to Rollo. 206. fol. 248 (Charles the Simple, 3 and Raoul, 1) two-column miniature: Armies in the sky and on earth; Charles imprisoned; Raoul crowned. 207. fol. 249 (Raoul, 2) two-column miniature: Duke William defeats a mutiny in camp. 208. fol. 249v (Louis VI, 1) two-column miniature: Red hosts seen in the sky; coronation. 209. fol. 250v (Louis IV, 2) two-column miniature: Duke William refuses the monks' charity; he is attacked by a boar; he accepts their gifts; he restores Jumièges. 210. fol. 251v (Louis IV, 3) Murder of Duke William (illustrates Louis IV, 2+). 211. fol. 252 (Louis IV, 3) Louis takes possession of the young Duke Richard. 212. fol. 253 (Louis IV, 4) two-column miniature: Louis receives a message; Surrender of Rouen. 213. fol. 253v (Louis IV, 5) Danes defeat the French. 214. fol. 255 (Lothaire, 1) Ansegisus expelled from the see of Troyes. 215. fol. 255v (Lothaire, 2) Duke Richard gives presents to his messengers (illustrates Lothaire, 1+). 216. fol. 256 (Lothaire, 2) Lothaire meets the duke at Eaune. 217. fol. 256v (Lothaire, 3) Raid of Danes. 218. fol. 257v (Louis V, 1) Lothaire drives Otho's army into the Aisne (illustrates Lothaire, 3+). 219. fol. 257v (Charles, 1) Coronation of Louis, son of Lothaire (illustrates Louis V, 1). 220 fol. 258 (Charles, 1) Bishop permits forces of Hugh Capet to capture Charles and his wife. 221. fol. 258 (Hugh Capet, 1) Council of Reims. 222. fol. 259 (Robert, 1) two-column miniature: Siege of Melun. 223. fol. 259v (Robert, 2) Deathbed of Duke Richard of Normandy. 224. fol. 260v (Robert, 3) two-column miniature: Odo,

count of Chartres, defeated; he disguises himself as a shepherd. 225. fol. 262 (Robert, 4) two-column miniature: Surrender of Auxerre; siege of Avalon. 226. fol. 263v (Henry, 1) two-column miniature: Henry I of France asks aid of Duke Robert of Normandy; horses presented to Henry; siege of a castle. 227. fol. 265v (Henry, 2) two-column miniature: Burning of Argentan; Battle of Val-es-Dunes; surrender of a castle. 228. fol. 266v (Henry, 3) two-column miniature: Duke William the Bastard defeats the French; he sends a herald to Henry. 229. fol. 267 (Henry, 4) Henry sends a protest to the emperor concerning Saint-Denis. 230. fol. 268v (Henry, 5) Abbot of Saint-Denis sends messengers. 231. fol. 269v (Henry, 6) Henry sends a bishop; his marriage to Anne. 232. fol. 270 (Philip I, 1) two-column miniature: Fulk of Anjou makes terms with Philip I; he defeats his brother Geoffrey; he imprisons him. 233. fol. 271 (Philip I, 2) Bertha in prison; Bertrande and Fulk of Anjou. 234. fol. 272 (Philip I, 3) Death of William Rufus. 235. fol. 272v (Philip I, 4) two-column miniature: Battle scene; complaint of Hughes de Clermont; siege of Clermont. 236. fol. 273v (Philip I, 5) Fight before a castle. 237. fol. 274v (Philip I, 6) two-column miniature: Disputes at Chateau Montaigu. 238. fol. 275v (Philip I, 7) Philip gives Louis Montlehery. 239. fol. 276 (Philip I, 8) Attack on Montlehery. 240. fol. 276v (Philip I, 9) two-column miniature: Robert Giscard and Boemond defeat two emperors in one day. 241. fol. 277v (Philip I, 10) Pope Paschasius meets Abbot Suger. 242. fol. 278v (Philip I, 11) Imperial envoys and the pope. 243. fol. 279 (Philip I, 12) The pope celebrates the eucharist for Emperor Henry. 244. fol. 280v (Philip I, 13) two-column miniature: Siege of Gournay-sur-Marne. 245. fol. 282 (Philip I, 14) Prowess of Louis VI. 246. fol. 282v (Philip I, 15) Funeral of Philip I. 247. fol. 284 (Louis VI, 1) two-column miniature: Messengers arrive too late to halt coronation. 248. fol. 284v (Louis VI, 2) Capture and imprisonment of Odo of Corbeil. 249. fol. 286 (Louis VI, 3) two-column miniature: Henry I of England receives French envoys near Gisors. 250. fol. 288 (Louis V, 4) Murder of Guy de Roche-Guyon. 251. fol. 289v (Louis VI, 5) Louis VI enters Meun. 252. fol. 290 (Louis VI, 6) Countess of Chartres appeals to Louis VI for help. 253. fol. 291 (Louis VI, 7) Siege of Puisat. 254. fol. 292 (Louis VI, 8) Louis defeats Count Thiebaud. 255. fol. 293 (Louis VI, 9) Bouchard, count of Corbeil, takes his spear from his countess. 256. fol. 294v (Louis VI, 10) Louis defeats Thiebaud's men. 257. fol. 295v (Louis VI, 11) Count Thiebaud surrenders to Louis. 258. fol. 296v (Louis VI, 12) Louis takes Crécy or Nouvion. 259. fol. 298 (Louis VI, 13) two-column miniature: Louis with his army; battle with Steven; burning of Gasny by the French. 260. fol. 299 (Louis VI, 14) Henry I of England sleeps with arms of France (sic ) at hand. 261. fol. 300v (Louis VI, 15) two-column miniature: Louis VI rides to meet Pope Gelasius; funeral of Gelasius. 262. fol. 301v (Louis VI, 16) Suger before Pope Calixtus. 263. fol. 302v (Louis VI, 17) two-column miniature: Louis VI receives news of imperial invasion; he sends a letter; he prays before Saint Denis, who holds the upper portion of his cranium. 264. fol. 303v (Louis VI, 18) Louis VI gives orders to his army. 265. fol. 304v (Louis VI, 19) two-column miniature: Bishop of Clermont complains to Louis VI; Louis attacks Clermont. 266. fol. 306 (Louis VI, 20) Murder of Charles, count of Flanders. 267. fol. 306 (Louis VI, 20) Murderers hanged. 268. fol. 307v (Louis VI, 21) Siege of Coucy. 269. fol. 308 (Louis VI, 22) Schism of cardinals. 270. fol. 309 (Louis VI, 23) Philip, son of Louis VI, killed by a boar. 271. fol. 310v (Louis VI, 24) Sickbed of Louis VI. 272. fol. 311 (Louis VI, 25) two-column miniature: Louis VI visits Saint-Denis. 273. fol. 312v (Louis VII, 1) two-column miniature: Louis VII returns to Paris from Aquitaine. 274. fol. 313v (Louis VII, 2) Deathbed of William, duke of Aquitaine. 275. fol. 314 (Louis VII, 3) Louis VII leads crusaders. 276. fol. 316v (Louis VII, 7) Crusaders in flight in a wood. 277. fol. 317 (Louis VII, 8) Funeral of Guy de Ponthieu. 278. fol. 317v (Louis VII, 9) Division of crusading army when crossing a mountain. 279. fol. 318v (Louis VII, 10) two-column miniature: Louis VII reaches the camp of the advance guard. 280. fol. 319 (Louis VII, 11) Louis VII marches to Antioch. 281. fol. 320 (Louis VII, 13) Council of princes in Jerusalem. 282. fol. 321 (Louis VII, 14) two-column miniature: The Emperor and his council; Louis

VII and his council. 283. fol. 321v (Louis VII, 15) Approach to Damascus. 284. fol. 322 (Louis VII, 16) two-column miniature: Siege of Damascus. 285. fol. 322v (Louis VII, 17) two-column miniature: Attempts to destroy the walls; Conrad slays a Turk. 286. fol. 323 (Louis VII, 18) Encampment before Damascus. 287. fol. 325 (Louis VII, 21) two-column miniature: Emperor Conrad sails away; Louis VII takes leave. 288. fol. 325v (Louis VII, 23) Divorce of Louis VII. 289. fol. 326v (Louis VII, 25) Coronation of Pope Alexander III. 290. fol. 327v (Louis VII, 26) Bishop of Clermont complains to Louis VII; Louis defeats the count of Clermont. 291. fol. 327v (Louis VII, 27) The count of Châlons attacks the monk of Cluny. 292. fol. 328v (Louis VII, 28) two-column miniature: The abbey of Vezelay attacked; complaint made to Louis VII. 293. fol. 329v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) two-column miniature: Louis VII and nobles pray for a son and Christ blesses them; birth of Philip Augustus. 294. fol. 330v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 2) two-column miniature: Louis VII holds a council; Philip on a boarhunt. 295. fol. 331 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 3) Coronation of Philip Augustus with help of Henry II's son. 296. fol. 332v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 5) two-column miniature: Philip rides to Saint-Denis; Philip and Isabel at mass after their marriage. 297. fol. 333v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 6) Banishment of Jews. 298. fol. 334 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 8) Destruction of synagogues. 299. fol. 334v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 9) Philip opens a market. 300. fol. 335v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 10) Vision of Durand. 301. fol. 337 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 12) Philip visited by the patriarch of Jerusalem and the master of the Temple. 302. fol. 338 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 14) Philip receives petitions from abbeys of Burgundy. 303. fol. 340 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 17) two-column miniature: Voyage of Rollo; he attacks Rouen. 304. fol. 340v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 18) Philip visits Saint-Denis; resignation of Abbot William. 305. fol. 341 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 19) Philip receives an envoy; he gives his sister Margaret in marriage to the king of Hungary. 306. fol. 343v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 22) two-column miniature: Philip sends an envoy; the envoy received by Henry II and his queen. 307. fol. 344v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 23) Philip receives an envoy; Philip and Henry II take the cross. 308. fol. 345 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 24) Philip addresses the clergy. 309. fol. 345v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 25) Siege engine at Montrichard. 310. fol. 347 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) two-column miniature: Attack on Le Mans; Philip fords the Loire to attack Tours. 311. fol. 347v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 2) Coronation of Richard I; burning of Gisors. 312. fol. 348v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 3) Philip dictates his will; his army. 313. fol. 350 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 4) Meeting of Philip and Tancred. 314. fol. 350v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 5) two-column miniature: Philip arrives at Acre. 315. fol. 351v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 6) two-column miniature: Sickbed of Philip's son, Louis; procession with relics from Saint-Denis. 316. fol. 352v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 7) Capture of Acre. 317. fol. 353v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 8) two-column miniature: Philip at Saint-Denis with exhibition of relics. 318. fol. 354 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 9) Philip receives messengers. 319. fol. 355 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 10) Siege of Gisors. 320. fol. 356 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 11) two-column miniature: Philip assembles his army; attack on Rouen. 321. fol. 356v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 12) Battle with English. 322. fol. 357v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 13) Battle with Richard at Arques. 323. fol. 358v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 14) Attack on a town. 324. fol. 360 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 15) two-column miniature: Battle with Richard before Gisors. 325. fol. 361 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 17) Peter of Capua mediates between Philip and Richard. 326. fol. 361v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 18) two-column miniature: Arthur of Brittany does homage to Philip. 327. fol. 362 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 19) Philip and John make peace. 328. fol. 362v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 20) Arthur of Brittany (here a king) pays homage to Philip Augustus. 329. fol. 363v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 21) Death of Andronicus. 330. fol. 364v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 22) The pope sends legates; a legate before Philip. 331. fol. 365v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 23) two-column miniature: Submission of Normans; Philip attacks Rouen. 332. fol. 366 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 24) Siege of Loches. 333. fol. 367 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 25) two-column miniature: Fighting in Aquitaine. 334. fol. 368v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III,

1) two-column miniature: Amaury de Bene lectures at Paris; he retracts before the pope. 335. fol. 369v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 2) Philip fights with the count of Auvergne. 336. fol. 370v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 3) Treaty with the emperor renewed. 337. fol. 371v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 4) Attack on a castle. 338. fol. 372v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 5) Fighting in Lombardy. 339. fol. 373 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 6) two-column miniature: Philip awaits his fleet. 340. fol. 373v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 7) King John of England attacks a castle. 341. fol. 374v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 8) two-column miniature: The pope excommunicates the Albigenses; the crusade against them. 342. fol. 375 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 9) two-column miniature: Siege. 343. fol. 376v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 10) two-column miniature: Armies of Philip and John approach each other. 344. fol. 377 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 11) French on the march to Bouvines. 345. fol. 379 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 13) two-column miniature: Battle. 346. fol. 379v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 14) Battle. 347. fol. 380v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 15) Battle between horse and foot soldiers. 348. fol. 381 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 16) Battle between foot and horse soldiers. 349. fol. 381v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 17) Flight of imperial army. 350. fol. 382v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 18) Philip reproaches Count Ferrand. 351. fol. 383 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 19) Prisoner before Philip. 352. fol. 384 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 20) two-column miniature: Battle scene; King returns to Paris, Count Ferrand carried as a prisoner. 353. fol. 385 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 22) two-column miniature: French battle with King John of England; Louis on the march. 354. fol. 386 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 24) Bishops at the funeral of Philip Augustus. 355. fol. 386v (Louis VIII, 1) two-column miniature: Coronation of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile. 356. fol. 368 (Louis VIII, 2) two-column miniature: Louis holds a parliament; siege engine at Rochelle. 357. fol. 388v (Louis VIII, 3) Rochelle attacked from the sea. 358. fol. 389v (Louis VIII, 4) Siege of Avignon.

The following illustrate a different translation of Guillaume de Nangis's Vie de Saint Louis than was normally used in the Grandes Chroniques . I have assigned chapter numbers here that correspond to those given in Grandes Chroniques , ed. Viard, vol. 10. This text occurs as well in B.N. fr. 2615 and Cambrai, B.M. 682. 359. fol. 390v (Saint Louis, 1) two-column miniature: Coronation of Saint Louis; siege of a castle. 360. fol. 391v (Saint Louis, 2) Battle. 361. fol. 392v (Saint Louis, 3) Surrender of a castle. 362. fol. 393 (Saint Louis, 4) Restoration of Saint-Denis; monks hold the saint clou . 363. fol. 394 (Saint Louis, 5) two-column miniature: Thiebaud, count of Champagne, marches against Louis; Louis forgives him. 364. fol. 395 (Saint Louis, 6) two-column miniature: Louis receives the Crown of Thorns and other relics from Constantinople. 365. fol. 396 (Saint Louis, 7) Attack on a city on crusade. 366. fol. 397 (Saint Louis, 8) Louis sends an envoy; prelates in prison. 367. fol. 398 (Saint Louis, 9) Louis attacks the count de la Marche. 368. fol. 399 (Saint Louis, 10) two-column miniature: Battle with the English. 369. fol. 400 (Saint Louis, 10+) Siege of a castle by the Tartars. 370. fol. 401 (Saint Louis, 11) Election of Pope Innocent IV. 371. fol. 402 (Saint Louis, 12) Council of Lyons. 372. fol. 403 (Saint Louis, 12+) two-column miniature: The pope sends Odo to Paris; nobles take the cross. 373. fol. 403v (Saint Louis, 13) two-column miniature: Louis visits the pope. 374. fol. 404v (Saint Louis, 14) two-column miniature: Louis departs on his first crusade. 375. fol. 405 (Saint Louis, 15) Louis receives envoys. 376. fol. 406 (Saint Louis, 16) The king of Cyprus gives Louis a letter. 377. fol. 407 (Saint Louis, 17) Louis converses with envoys. 378. fol. 407v (Saint Louis, 18) Louis and the king of Cyprus dismiss the envoys. 379. fol. 408v (Saint Louis, 19) Louis receives Armenian envoys. 380. fol. 409v (Saint Louis, 20) two-column miniature: Attack on Damietta. 381. fol. 410v (Saint Louis, 21) two-column miniature: Capture of Damietta. 382. fol. 411 (Saint Louis, 22) two-column miniature: Louis sails from Damietta; battle. 383. fol. 412 (Saint Louis, 23) two-column miniature: Battle scene; deaths from pestilence. 384. fol. 413 (Saint Louis, 24) two-column miniature: Louis sick and a captive. 385. fol. 414 (Saint Louis, 25) two-column miniature: Louis leaves Damietta; voyages; arrives at Acre. 386. fol. 415v (Saint Louis, 26) two-column

miniature: Louis builds a fortress; goes on pilgrimage to Nazareth. 387. fol. 416v (Saint Louis, 27) two-column miniature: Massacre at Sidon; Louis buries the dead. 388. fol. 417 (Saint Louis, 28) Louis sails for France. 389. fol. 418 (Saint Louis, 28+) William, king of the Romans, killed. 390. fol. 418v (Saint Louis, 29) Louis makes officers swear to his établissements . 391. fol. 420v (Saint Louis, 30) two-column miniature: Punishment of a blasphemer; children caught in the forest of Coucy. 392. fol. 422 (Saint Louis, 32) Louis washes poor men's feet; feeding the poor. 393. fol. 423 (Saint Louis, 34) Nimbed Louis at confession; disciplined by his confessor. 394. fol. 423v (Saint Louis, 35) two-column miniature: Nimbed Louis feeding the poor (two scenes). 395. fol. 424v (Saint Louis, 37) Cure of scrofula. 396. fol. 425 (Saint Louis, 38) two-column miniature: Charles of Anjou addresses the men of Marseilles; his army. 397. fol. 426 (Saint Louis, 39) two-column miniature: Henry III visits Louis; Henry at Saint-Denis. 398. fol. 426v (Saint Louis, 39+) Louis receives a letter about the Holy Land. 399. fol. 427 (Saint Louis, 39+) two-column miniature: Attack of the Tartars in the Holy Land. 400. fol. 427v (Saint Louis, 40) Civil war in England. 401. fol. 429v (Saint Louis, 42) two-column miniature: Charles sails for Rome; the pope crowns him. 402. fol. 430v (Saint Louis, 43) Charles drives back Manfred. 403. fol. 431 (Saint Louis, 44) Battle of Benevento. 404. fol. 432 (Saint Louis, 45) two-column miniature: Defeat of Manfred. 405. fol. 433 (Saint Louis, 46) Charles of Anjou fights with Conradin. 406. fol. 433v (Saint Louis, 47) Armies divided by a river. 407. fol. 434v (Saint Louis, 48) two-column miniature: Charles defeats Henry of Spain. 408. fol. 436 (Saint Louis, 49) two-column miniature: Conradin and Henry brought prisoners to Charles (nimbed, perhaps Louis IX). 409. fol. 436v (Saint Louis, 50) Cardinal Simon preaches a crusade before nimbed Louis. 410. fol. 437v (Saint Louis, 51) Nimbed Louis sails on his second crusade. 411. fol. 438v (Saint Louis, 52) Landing at Cagliari; sick men carried ashore. 412. fol. 439v (Saint Louis, 54) Council on board ship; nimbed Louis. 413. fol. 440v (Saint Louis, 55) two-column miniature: Nimbed Louis lands at Tunis; French cut off by Saracens in a tower. 414. fol. 441 (Saint Louis, 56) Capture of Carthage. 415. fol. 442 (Saint Louis, 57) two-column miniature: Treacherous attack by Saracens. 416. fol. 442v (Saint Louis, 57) Entrenching the camp. 417. fol. 443v (Saint Louis, 58) Nimbed Louis instructs his son. 418. fol. 444v (Saint Louis, 59) two-column miniature: Deathbed of nimbed Louis.

STYLE: At least six distinct artistic styles. I (Mahiet [Master of the Vie de Saint Louis , B.N. fr. 5716]): gatherings 2, 5–14, 17, 19, 22–26, 38. II (Master of the Cambrai Missal [Cathedral of Cambrai]): gatherings 20–21. III: gatherings 3, 4, 30. IV: gatherings 15, 16, 18, 21 (except bifolium, fols. 234–39), 29, 31–37. V: gathering 28. VI: bifolium fols. 234–39 in gathering 21.

PROVENANCE: Arms in the margin of fol. 3 (France ancient, a bordure gueles are those born by John the Good before his coronation. An effaced inscription on fol. 445v is visible under ultraviolet light: "Jehan Ce rommant est monss. le Duc." There is an inscription on fol. 445 as well: "Cest livre est à moy Homfrey Duc de Gloucestre du don les exsecuteurs le seigneir de Faunhope." Warner notes that Humphery became duke of Gloucester in 1414 and died in 1447, and suggests that Humphrey probably acquired it after 1428 when Sir John Chandos, grandson of the lord of the manor of Fownhope County, died.

REFERENCES: Julius Gilson and Georges Warner, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and Kings Collections (London, 1921), 2:209–12, 4, pls. 99, 100; Delisle, "Notes sur quelques manuscrits."

London, British Library, Royal 20 C VII
Grandes Chroniques de France (from the life of Philip III, the Bold, to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–8(57)8; 9(65)7, binding too tight to determine which folio lacks; 10(72)8–13(96)8; 14(104)4, there is a 106 bis (blank and ruled recto and verso); 15(107)8–

28(211)8. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Cy commence l'ystoire du roy phelippe. . . . T: Nous avons du bon roy saint loys . . . ; fol. 2 R: Comment le roy loys de zecille. . . . T: Autres fors advint . . . ; fol. 3 bataille. Quant ceulz . . . ; fol. 216: R: Comment le roy Charles. . . . T: L'an mil. . . . Explicit: fol. 216v: . . . grant foison de biens.

MINIATURES: The following corrects and expands Warner. 1. fol. 1 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou arrives at the deathbed of Saint Louis in Tunis. 2. fol. 1v (Philip III, 3) Charles of Anjou fights the Saracens. 3. fol. 2 (Philip III, 4) Philip builds a fort to control the food supply of Tunis. 4. fol. 2v (Philip III, 5) The king of Tunis and his army approach the French camp. 5. fol. 4v (Philip III, 7) Departure of the French from Tunis. 6. fol. 5v (Philip III, 10) Death of Tibault, king of Navarre. 7. fol. 6 (Philip III, 11) Philip and knights mourn over the body of Queen Isabella. 8. fol. 6v (Philip III, 12) Murder of Henry of Germany in the church at Viterbo. 9. fol. 7 (Philip III, 14) Funeral of Saint Louis, Queen Isabella, and others. 10. fol. 8 (Philip III, 15) two-column miniature: At right, the king is crowned; in center, he gives the sword, Joyeuse, to the count of Artois; at left, the Count carries it before him. 11. fol. 8v (Philip III, 16) Saint Louis instructs his sons from his deathbed. 12. fol. 8v (Philip III, 17) Philip fights with barons. 13. fol. 10 (Philip III, 19) Marriage of Philip with Mary of Brabant. 14. fol. 10v (Philip III, 20) two-column miniature: Coronation of Mary of Brabant; cleric kneels before nobles and clergy. 15. fol. 11 (Philip III, 21) Death of Ferdinand of Castile. 16. fol. 12 (Philip III, 22) The abbot of Saint-Denis consults a mendicant wise women. 17. fol. 13 (Philip III, 23) King of Castile receives envoys. 18. fol. 13v (Philip III, 24) two-column miniature: French troops encamped before a castle. 19. fol. 14v (Philip III, 25) Count of Artois in conversation with the king of Castile as a messenger arrives. 20. fol. 15 (Philip III, 26) Pierre de la Brosse hanged. 21. fol. 18 (Philip III, 37) Naval defeat of Charles, prince of Salerno. 22. fol. 19 (Philip III, 40) French destroy Genoa. 23. fol. 20v (Philip III, 43) two-column miniature: Defeat and fatal wound of Peter III of Aragon. 24. fol. 21v (Philip III, 45) Queen and nobles mourn Philip at his deathbed. 25. fol. 22v (Philip IV, 1) Edward I does homage to Philip. 26. fol. 23 (Philip IV, 3) Battle of Luxembourg. 27. fol. 23v (Philip IV, 4) two-column miniature: Charles of Salerno taken from prison and brought before Alfonso of Aragon. 28. fol. 24 (Philip IV, 5) Christians of Acre attack the Saracens. 29. fol. 24v (Philip IV, 6) Siege of Acre. 30. fol. 25v (Philip IV, 8) English landing in Normandy. 31. fol. 26 (Philip IV, 9) Battle of the count of Armagnac and the count of Foix. 32. fol. 26v (Philip IV, 10) English force at sea. 33. fol. 26v (Philip IV, 11+) Burning of the count of Auxerre. 34. fol. 27v (Philip IV, 13) Siege of Rions; Gascons hanged. 35. fol. 28 (Philip IV, 15) John, king of Scotland, brought before Edward I. 36. fol. 28v (Philip IV, 17) Capture of John of Saint-John and others by the French. 37. fol. 29v (Philip IV, 20) The count of Bar and others invade Champagne. 38. fol. 29v (Philip IV, 21) French besiege Lille. 39. fol. 30 (Philip IV, 22) Robert of Artois fights the Flemish. 40. fol. 30v (Philip IV, 25) Translation of Saint Louis; the pope swings a censer, and the king, cardinals, and others kneel below the tomb. 41. fol. 31 (Philip IV, 29) Baptism of the king of Tartary. 42. fol. 31v (Philip IV, 31) Murder of a bishop. 43. fol. 32 (Philip IV, 32) Guy of Flanders and his sons submit to Philip. 44. fol. 32 (Philip IV, 37) Jews of Magdeburg steal a child and crucify it. 45. fol. 33v (Philip IV, 41) Fighting at Bruges. 46. fol. 34 (Philip IV, 42) two-column miniature: Battle of Courtrai. 47. fol. 35 (Philip IV, 44) Army marching away from Arras. 48. fol. 36 (Philip IV, 47) Battle of Saint-Omer. 49. fol. 36v (Philip IV, 49) Council of Barons and clergy at Paris. 50. fol. 37 (Philip IV, 50+) Philip, son of Guy, count of Flanders, approaches Saint-Omer. 51. fol. 37 (Philip IV, 52) Deathbed of Pope Boniface VIII. 52. fol. 38 (Philip IV, 54) two-column miniature: Two apparitions of the Devil to Adam, a Cistercian conversus, and his servant. 53. fol. 39 (Philip IV, 55) Guy of Flanders, his son, William, and others riding. 54. fol. 39 (Philip IV, 56) Charles of Valois tortures a false prophetess. 55. fol. 39v (Philip IV, 57) Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle. 56. fol. 40v (Philip IV, 58) Funeral of Jeanne, queen of France and Navarre. 57. fol. 40v (Philip IV, 59) Coronation of

Pope Clement V. 58. fol. 41 (Philip IV, 60) Head of Saint Louis in a reliquary placed on the altar of Notre-Dame. 59. fol. 41v (Philip IV, 61) two-column miniature: Rioters pillage a house in Paris. 60. fol. 42v (Philip IV, 63) Arrest of the Templars. 61. fol. 43 (Philip IV, 64) Henry of Luxembourg crowned emperor (pope wrongfully portrayed as present). 62. fol. 44v (Philip IV, 65) Templars burnt. 63. fol. 45 (Philip IV, 66) Army sent against the archbishop of Lyons. 64. fol. 47 (Philip IV, 68) two-column miniature: Cardinal preaches to the kings of France, England, and Navarre; at right, procession of Paris citizens. 65. fol. 48 (Philip IV, 70) Burning of the grand master of the Templars and another. 66. fol. 49 (Philip IV, 73) Funeral procession of Philip the Fair. 67. fol. 51 (Philip IV, 76) Enguerrand de Marigny hanged. 68. fol. 52 (Louis X, 1) Coronation. 69. fol. 53 (Louis X, 7) Death of Louis X. 70. fol. 53v (Philip V, 1) Pope John XXII receives Flemish envoys. 71. fol. 55v (Philip V, 6) Third crusade of the Pastoureaux; Jews throw their children from a tower. 72. fol. 56v (Philip V, 7) two-column miniature: Burning of lepers as poisoners. 73. fol. 58 (Charles IV, 1) Pope receives messengers from the French king. 74. fol. 60 (Charles IV, 5) two-column miniature: Jourdain de L'Isle dragged at horses' heels. 75. fol. 60v (Charles IV, 6) two-column miniature: Discovery of a sorcerer's artifices at a crossroads. 76. fol. 62 (Charles IV, 9) King of Bohemia defeats Austrians and Saracens. 77. fol. 65v (Charles IV, 13) Coronation of Queen Jeanne. 78. fol. 66v (Charles IV, 14) Marsiglio of Padua and John of Jandun converse with Louis, duke of Bavaria. 79. fol. 68 (Charles IV, 15) Deathbed of Charles. 80. fol. 68 (Philip of Valois, 1) Discussion between barons and clerics. 81. fol. 68v (Philip of Valois, 2) Coronation of the antipope, Peter of Corvara. 82. fol. 70v (Philip of Valois, 5) two-column miniature: French and Flemish armies; at left, King Philip in his tent prepares for flight; at right, the hill of Cassel. 83. fol. 72v (Philip of Valois, 6) two-column miniature: Edward III does homage to Philip. 84. fol. 73v (Philip of Valois, 8) The sick come to the child of Pomponne to be healed. 85. fol. 74v (Philip of Valois, 9) The Franciscan antipope, Peter of Corvara, submits to the pope. 86. fol. 75 (Philip of Valois, 10) Burning of the damoiselle of Divion. 87. fol. 76v (Philip of Valois, 11+) Archbishop of Rouen preaches a crusade. 88. fol. 78v (Philip of Valois, 13) Doctors attend John, duke of Normandy. Numbers 89–122 are unfinished; figures are sketched, but only the grounds are painted in color. 89. fol. 81v (Philip of Valois, 17) Castle. 90. fol. 83v (Philip of Valois, 19) two-column miniature: Great naval force. 91. fol. 84v (Philip of Valois, 20) Armies of England and France. 92. fol. 88v (Philip of Valois, 25) Battle of Spaniards with Saracens. 93. fol. 89v (Philip of Valois, 28) two-column miniature: Mourners at the deathbed of John, duke of Brittany. 94. fol. 92v (Philip of Valois, 31) Philip mediates between Norman nobles. 95. fol. 93v (Philip of Valois, 32) Olivier de Clisson beheaded on a scaffold. 96. fol. 94 (Philip of Valois, 32+) Forgers of seals deprived of their hands on a scaffold. 97. fol. 95 (Philip of Valois, 33) two-column miniature: John, duke of Normandy and his suite. 98. fol. 95v (Philip of Valois, 34) Andrew, husband of Queen Johanna of Sicily, strangled in bed. 99. fol. 96 (Philip of Valois, 35) Mounted troops on the march in Normandy. 100. fol. 97v (Philip of Valois, 36) two-column miniature: English admitted into Lannion. 101. fol. 98v (Philip of Valois, 37) two-column miniature: Citizen of Compiègne dismembered on the scaffold. 102. fol. 99 (Philip of Valois, 38) English army attacks a town. 103. fol. 100v (Philip of Valois, 39) two-column miniature: French army besieges Aiguillon. 104. fol. 102 (Philip of Valois, 40) An advocate of Laon, disguised as a Praemonstratensian, arrested. 105. fol. 102v (Philip of Valois, 41) Traitor hanged after mutilation. 106. fol. 104 (Philip of Valois, 42) two-column miniature: Siege of La Roche Derrien. 107. fol. 107 (John the Good, 1) two-column miniature: Coronation of John and his queen. 108. fol. 107v (John the Good, 2) King John makes Charles d' Espagne constable. 109. fol. 108 (John the Good, 4) Meeting in the lists of Henry, duke of Lancaster, and Otto of Brunswick. 110. fol. 108v (John the Good, 5) Charles d'Espagne murdered in bed. 111. fol. 109v (John the Good, 7) The count d'Harcourt and his son reconciled to the king. 112. fol. 110 (John the Good, 8) King John and his army. 113. fol. 110 (John the Good, 9) King receives a

messenger from Navarre. 114. fol. 110v (John the Good, 10) King John takes leave of the dauphin. 115. fol. 111 (John the Good, 11) Challenge sent to the king of England. 116. fol. 111 (John the Good, 12) The king convokes the Estates. 117. fol. 111v (John the Good, 13) The dauphin does homage for Normandy. 118. fol. 112 (John the Good, 15) Revolt at Arras. 119. fol. 112v (John the Good, 16) two-column miniature: The king of France and his army; on right, the count of Harcourt and others being beheaded. 120. fol. 113 (John the Good, 17) The marshal of France arrests the chief rebels at Arras. 121. fol. 113 (John the Good, 18) Siege of Breteuil. 122. fol. 114 (John the Good, 19) two-column miniature: blank. 123. fol. 114v (John the Good, 20) Charles, son of John the Good, assembles the Three Estates. 124. fol. 116v (John the Good, 21) blank. 125. fol. 117 (John the Good, 23) blank. 126. fol. 117v (John the Good, 24) blank. 127. fol. 117v (John the Good, 25) blank. 128. fol. 117v (John the Good, 26) blank. 129. fol. 118 (John the Good, 27) blank. 130. fol. 118v (John the Good, 28) blank. 131. fol. 119 (John the Good, 31) blank. 132. fol. 120 (John the Good, 32) blank. 133. fol. 120v (John the Good, 33) blank. 134. fol. 120v (John the Good, 34) blank. 135. fol. 121 (John the Good, 35) blank. 136. fol. 121 (John the Good, 37) blank. 137. fol. 121v (John the Good, 38) two-column miniature: blank. 138. fol. 122 (John the Good, 39) blank. 139. fol. 122v (John the Good, 40) blank. 140. fol. 123 (John the Good, 42) blank. 141. fol. 124 (John the Good, 45) blank. 142. fol. 124v (John the Good, 46) blank. 143. fol. 125 (John the Good, 47) two-column miniature: blank. 144. fol. 125v (John the Good, 48) blank. 145. fol. 125v (John the Good, 49) blank. 146. fol. 126 (John the Good, 50) blank. 147. fol. 127 (John the Good, 52) blank. 148. fol. 127 (John the Good, 53) blank. 149. fol. 127v (John the Good, 55) blank. 150. fol. 128 (John the Good, 56) blank. 151. fol. 128 (John the Good, 58) blank. 152. fol. 129 (John the Good, 59) blank. 153. fol. 129v (John the Good, 61) blank. 154. fol. 131 (John the Good, 68) The regent, with his clerks, addresses the people of Champagne. 155. fol. 132 (John the Good, 69) Parisians remove crossbows from the Louvre. 156. fol. 132v (John the Good, 72) The regent converses with the king of Navarre. 157. fol. 133 (John the Good, 74) Outbreak of the Jacquerie. 158. fol. 133v (John the Good, 75) two-column miniature: Beheading of the bridgemaster and the king's carpenter at Paris; the executioner falling in a fit. 159. fol. 134 (John the Good, 77) Fight outside Meaux. 160. fol. 134v (John the Good, 78) The king of Navarre has the leader of the Jacquerie beheaded. 161. fol. 134v (John the Good, 79) The king of Navarre addresses the Parisians. 162. fol. 135v (John the Good, 82) The regent blockades Paris. 163. fol. 135v (John the Good, 83) The regent and the king of Navarre confer in a tent: 164. fol. 136 (John the Good, 84) Battle renewed. 165. fol. 136v (John the Good, 85) two-column miniature: Passage of the Seine by a bridge of boats and pillage of Vitry. 166. fol. 137 (John the Good, 86) two-column miniature: Battle on the bridge. 167. fol. 138 (John the Good, 87) two-column miniature: English at Paris imprisoned in the Louvre; at right, Parisians surprised by an English ambush at Saint-Cloud. 168. fol. 138v (John the Good, 88) English released from the Louvre. 169. fol. 139 (John the Good, 89) two-column miniature: The provost of merchants and others killed and stripped. 170. fol. 139v (John the Good, 90) Charles Toussac and Josseran de Mâcon beheaded. 171. fol. 139v (John the Good, 91) The regent is defied by the king of Navarre. 172. fol. 140 (John the Good, 92) Two traitors beheaded. 173. fol. 140 (John the Good, 93) Melun occupied by the English (banners of Saint George). 174. fol. 140v (John the Good, 94) Battle before a castle in Picardy. 175. fol. 140v (John the Good, 96) The king of Navarre with banner and his army. 176. fol. 140v (John the Good, 97) The chancellor of Navarre carried in irons on a door. 177. fol. 141 (John the Good, 98) Suburbs of Amiens burnt. 178. fol. 141v (John the Good, 99) Assault on a castle. 179. fol. 141v (John the Good, 102) Parisians appealing to the regent on behalf of prisoners. 180. fol. 142 (John the Good, 104) Two cardinals riding to Paris. 181. fol. 142v (John the Good, 105) English enter Lagny. 182. fol. 142v (John the Good, 106) English defeat before Troyes. 183. fol. 142v (John the Good, 107) English capture Auxerre. 184. fol. 143v (John the Good, 110) The regent communicates terms of

peace from England to the Parisians. 185. fol. 144v (John the Good, 112) The regent holds a council. 186. fol. 145v (John the Good, 114) The king of Navarre addresses the council. 187. fol. 145v (John the Good, 115) The regent addresses the people. 188. fol. 146v (John the Good, 118) The regent riding into Paris. 189. fol. 147 (John the Good, 119) two-column miniature: blank. 190. fol. 147v (John the Good, 120) blank. 191. fol. 158 (John the Good, 130) blank. 192. fol. 158v (John the Good, 131) blank. 193. fol. 159 (John the Good, 132) blank. 194. fol. 159v (John the Good, 133) blank. 195. fol. 160v (John the Good, 135) two-column miniature: blank. 196. fol. 161 (John the Good, 136) blank. 197. fol. 162 (John the Good, 138) blank. 198. fol. 162v (John the Good, 140) blank. 199. fol. 163 (John the Good, 141) blank. 200. fol. 163v (Charles V, 1) two-column miniature: blank. 201. fol. 164 (Charles V, 2) blank. 202. fol. 164 (Charles V, 3) blank. 203. fol. 164v (Charles V, 4) blank. 204. fol. 165 (Charles V, 5) blank. 205. fol. 166 (Charles V, 7) blank. 206. fol. 166v (Charles V, 8) blank. 207. fol. 167 (Charles V, 9) blank. 208. fol. 167 (Charles V, 10) blank. 209. fol. 168 (Charles V, 11) blank. 210. fol. 171v (Charles V, 14) blank. 211. fol. 172 (Charles V, 15) blank. 212. fol. 172 (Charles V, 16) blank. 213. fol. 173 (Charles V, 17) two-column miniature: blank. 214. fol. 173v (Charles V, 19) blank. 215. fol. 182 (Charles V, 21) Marriage of Philip, duke of Burgundy, and Margaret of Flanders. 216. fol. 184v (Charles V, 23) The duke of Lancaster sailing to Calais. 217. fol. 185 (Charles V, 24) Hill of Tournehem—English on left; Burgundians retiring on right. 218. fol. 185v (Charles V, 25) Duchess of Burgundy and ladies riding into Paris. 219. fol. 186 (Charles V, 29) English army with banner of Saint George. 220. fol. 186v (Charles V, 30) Bertrand de Guesclin girt with a sword by the king as constable. 221. fol. 187v (Charles V, 31) two-column miniature: The duke of Anjou leads Pope Gregory XI to the palace at Avignon; cardinals and others follow. 222. fol. 187v (Charles V, 33) Deathbed of Queen Jeanne. 223. fol. 187v (Charles V, 34) The king of Navarre does homage to the king of France. 224. fol. 188v (Charles V, 35) Two cardinal legates kneel before the king. 225. fol. 188v (Charles V, 36) Cardinal of Beauvais gives up the seals as chancellor of France. 226. fol. 189 (Charles V, 37) Birth of Louis, second son of Charles V. 227. fol. 189 (Charles V, 38) Heretical books and robes of the Turlupins burnt. 228. fol. 189v (Charles V, 39) Sea battle off La Rochelle. 229. fol. 190 (Charles V, 40) Poitevins surrender to the French. 230. fol. 190v (Charles V, 41) Baptism of Isabelle, daughter of Charles V. 231. fol. 191v (Charles V, 44) The duke of Anjou receives the keys of La Rochelle. 232. fol. 192 (Charles V, 46) Charles promulgates a law in Parliament. 233. fol. 192 (Charles V, 47) Coronation of Richard II. 234. fol. 193 (Charles V, 48) The duke of Anjou and Du Guesclin and army. 235. fol. 194 (Charles V, 50) The keys of a town surrendered to the duke of Anjou. 236. fol. 194v (Charles V, 52) Charles V receives a letter from the emperor. 237. fol. 195 (Charles V, 53) Charles sends messengers. 238. fol. 196v (Charles V, 55) The dukes of Berry and Burgundy and others riding. 239. fol. 196v (Charles V, 56) The duke of Bar meeting the emperor and the king of the Romans. 240. fol. 197 (Charles V, 57) The emperor and his son kneel before the relics at Saint-Denis. 241. fol. 197v (Charles V, 58) The magistrates of Paris greet the emperor. 242. fol. 198v (Charles V, 60) two-column miniature: The king, dukes of Berry, Burgundy and others meet the emperor and the king of the Romans. 243. fol. 198v (Charles V, 61) Procession of the emperor and king of France and others. 244. fol. 199 (Charles V, 66) Banquet of the emperor and king. 245. fol. 200 (Charles V, 81) two-column miniature: Funeral procession for Queen Jeanne of Bourbon. 246. fol. 200v (Charles V, 83/84) Charles V, seated, giving orders for the funeral. 247. fol. 201 (Charles V, 87) Deathbed of Pope Gregory XI. 248. fol. 201v (Charles V, 88) Charles V receives a letter. 249. fol. 201v (Charles V, 90) Charles, son of the king of Navarre, received by Charles V. 250. fol. 202v (Charles V, 91) Pierre du Tertre, the king of Navarre's secretary, writing his confession. 251. fol. 203v (Charles V, 92) Pierre du Tertre and Jacques de la Rue blindfolded on the scaffold. 252. fol. 204v (Charles V, 94) The king receives the bishop of Famagusta and a Dominican. 253. fol. 208v (Charles V, 97) Coronation of Robert of Geneva as Clement VII. 254. fol. 210 (Charles V, 101) The king receives the cardinal of

Limoges in state at the Louvre. 255. fol. 210v (Charles V, 102) The king addresses Breton barons. 256. fol. 211v (Charles V, 103) The king receives two cardinal legates. 257. fol. 212 (Charles V, 105) two-column miniature: The people of Ghent kill the bailiff of the count of Flanders. 258. fol. 212v (Charles V, 106) Revolt at Montpellier. 259. fol. 213 (Charles V, 106+) The duke of Anjou and a cardinal ride into Montpellier. 260. fol. 213v (Charles V, 107) Sentence against the University of Montpellier read from a scaffold. 261. fol. 214 (Charles V, 108) Surrender of Châteauneuf: Du Guesclin lying dead in bed. 262. fol. 214v (Charles V, 109) English armies at sea. 263. fol. 214v (Charles V, 110) Battle of the men of Ghent (banner inscribed "Gant") and the count of Flanders (banner with his arms). 264. fol. 215 (Charles V, 111) Deathbed of Charles V. 265. fol. 216 (Charles VI, 1) two-column miniature: Coronation. 266. fol. 216v (Charles VI, 2) The Jews of Paris plundered.

STYLE: Five artists. I: later repainting(?), fols. 2, 2v, 4v, 5v, 6, 6v, 7, 8, 8v. II (Virgil Master): fols. 1, 1v. III (Follower of the Virgil Master): gatherings 2, 6, 17, 18, 19. IV (Follower of the Virgil Master): gatherings 3, 9, 10, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. V (Follower of the Virgil Master): gatherings 4, 5, 7, 8(?).

PROVENANCE: On fol. 134 is the name Richard Gloucestre, who (as Gilson and Warner suggest) was probably the duke of Gloucester, who became Richard III in 1483.

REFERENCE: Gilson and Warner, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts , 2:372–74, 4: pl. 117.

London, British Library, Sloane Ms. 2433, vols. A, B, and C
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: Original foliation is in brackets. Vol. A: 1(1)12–13(145)12; 14(157)12, 12th lacks. Vol. B: 1(1[168])1, last folio of previous gathering; 2(2[169])12–14(146[313])12; 15(158[325])12, 12th excised. Vol. C: 1(1[346])2; 2(3[348])12–10(99[434])12; 11(111[446])13, 13th added; 12(124[459])12–14(148[483])12; 15(160[495])4. Incipits: Vol. A: fol. 1: R: Ce sont les grans croniques. . . . T: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: Le xvi^e comment . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of chronicle): du roy Jehan . . . ; fol. 4: Redoublez que ilz. . . . Vol. C: fol. 163: de leur aage. . . . Explicit: fol. 163v: . . . foison de biens.

MINIATURES: Vol. A: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Monk writing. 2. fol. 3 (I, 1) four parts: Siege of a city/ Battle of French and Romans?/ Building of Sicambria/ Coronation of Pharamond. 3. fol. 5v (I, 7) Barons chase Childeric out of Paris. 4. fol. 6v (I, 10) King Chilperic prepares to tell Queen Basina about his visions. 5. fol. 11v (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 6. fol. 15 (II, 1) Clerics and barons discuss before King Childebert. 7. (II, 9) blank, filled with text. 8. fol. 23 (II, 15) Childebert founds the abbey of Saint-Germain. 9. fol. 26 (II, 19) blank, filled with text. 10. fol. 30v (III, 1) Two soldiers watch King Chilperic strangle Queen Galswintha (here, without crown). 11. fol. 35 (III, 6) blank, filled with text. 12. fol. 42 (III, 14+) blank, filled with text. 13. fol. 44v (III, 18) Queen Fredegunda supervises burning of sorcerers. 14. fol. 51 (IV, 1) King Guntram receives Childebert whom he appointed as heir. 15. fol. 57v (IV, 14) blank, filled with text. 16. fol. 59 (IV, 16+) blank, filled with text. 17. fol. 60v (IV, 20) Queen Brunhilda tortured. 18. fol. 62v (IV, 24) blank, filled with text. 19. fol. 63v (V, 1) King Clotaire gives the Lombards a treaty. 20. fol. 67 (V, 6+) blank, filled with text. 21. fol. 69 (V, 9+) blank, filled with text. 22. fol. 71 (V, 12+) blank, filled with text. 23. fol. 78v (V, 22) Clovis II loses his senses because he tried to remove a bone of Saint Denis from the reliquary. 24. fol. 81 (V, 25) blank, filled with text. 25. fol. 82v (V, 27) blank, filled with text. 26. fol. 86v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1). 27. fol. 97v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 13) Men cut out the tongue of Pope Leo. 28. fol. 99 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) blank, filled with text. 29. fol. 102v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 5) blank, filled with text. 30. fol. 105v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne judges traitors. 31. fol. 112 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 10) Emperor Charlemagne raises a dead baby to life and cures it of its infirmities with relics brought

back from Constantinople. 32. fol. 114v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) blank, filled with text. 33. fol. 115v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 2) Walls of Luiserne fall down at Charlemagne's prayers. 34. fol. 120 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 7) Giant Ferragut carries off French barons. 35. fol. 121 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 8+) Roland kills Ferragut. 36. fol. 121v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 9) Battle of French and Saracens. 37. fol. 123v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 38. fol. 126v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 4) blank, filled with text. 39. fol. 127v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 5+) blank, filled with text. 40. fol. 132 (Louis the Pious, 1) King Charlemagne and barons take the infant Louis to Rome. 41. fol. 136 (Louis the Pious, 6) blank, filled with text. 42. fol. 140 (Louis the Pious, 11) Emperor Louis supervises execution of his nephew, Bernard, and other traitors. 43. fol. 155 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 44. fol. 165v (Charles the Bald, 12) blank, filled with text. Vol. B: 45. fol. 1v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Queen (sic ) Richilda presents sword and scepter to Louis. 46. fol. 5 (Louis the Stammerer, 5) blank, filled with text. 47. fol. 10v (Louis IV, 1) Coronation. 48. fol. 18 (Robert, 1) blank, filled with text. 49. fol. 22 (Henry, 1) blank, filled with text. 50. fol. 27 (Philip I, 1) blank, filled with text. 51. fol. 37v (Louis VI, 1) blank, filled with text. 52. fol. 54v (Louis VI, 20) blank, filled with text. 53. fol. 59v (Louis VII, 1) blank, filled with text. 54. fol. 70v (Louis VII, 27) blank, filled with text. 55. fol. 72 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Christ appears above an altar before which Louis VII, Queen Alix, and barons and ladies kneel in prayer. 56. fol. 82v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 22+) blank, filled with text. 57. fol. 85 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Surrender of Tours or Le Mans. 58. fol. 88 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 5) Abbot and monks of Saint-Denis bring relics to bedside of Philip Augustus's sick son. 59. fol. 89v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 8) Philip supervises execution of Jews. 60. fol. 100v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Philip speaks to courtiers. 61. fol. 105v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 10) Battle of Bouvines. 62. fol. 113 (Louis VIII, 1) Louis besieges Avignon. 63. fol. 117 (Saint Louis, 1) Coronation (illustrates Saint Louis, 2). 64. fol. 122 (Saint Louis, 21) Louis IX carries Crown of Thorns and other relics brought from the Holy Land in procession. 65. fol. 139v (Saint Louis, 77) Louis IX cares for the poor. 66. fol. 148v (Saint Louis, 110) Attack on Carthage. 67. fol. 151 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, arrives at deathbed of Saint Louis. 68. fol. 156v (Philip III, 15) King of Scotland brought before English king, Edward I. 69. fol. 163 (Philip III, 35) blank, filled with text. Vol. C: 70. fol. 1 (Philip IV, 1) Edward I pays homage to Philip. 71. fol. 2v (Philip IV, 6) blank, filled with text. 72. fol. 7v (Philip IV, 25) Translation of Saint Louis, whose body is surrounded by angels. 73. fol. 10 (Philip IV, 42) Battle of Courtrai. 74. fol. 12 (Philip IV, 47) Battle of Saint-Omer. 75. fol. 14v (Philip IV, 57) Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle. 76. fol. 18v (Philip IV, 65) Burning of the Templars. 77. fol. 24v (Louis X, 1) Coronation. 78. fol. 26. (Philip V, 1) Coronation. 79. fol. 31 (Charles IV, 1) Marriage of Charles IV and Maria of Bohemia. 80. fol. 40v (Philip of Valois, 1) At left, coronation; at right, barons discuss the succession. 81. fol. 43 (Philip of Valois, 5+) Battle of French and Flemish. 82. fol. 56v (Philip of Valois, 20) Battle of Saint-Omer. 83. fol. 69v (Philip of Valois, 39) Battle of Crécy. 84. fol. 78 (John the Good, 1) Coronation. 85. fol. 82 (John the Good, 16) King supervises execution of rebellious Norman knights. 86. fol. 83 (John the Good, 19) Battle of Poitiers. 87. fol. 89v (John the Good, 40) blank, filled with text. 88. fol. 93v (John the Good, 58) Murders of the marshals of Clermont and Champagne and of Regnault d'Acy in the dauphin's presence. 89. fol. 99 (John the Good, 83) blank, filled with text. 90. fol. 107 (John the Good, 119) blank, filled with text. 91. fol. 116v (John the Good, 133) blank, filled with text. 92. fol. 122 (Charles V, 1) Entry of Charles into Paris after coronation. 93. fol. 128v (Charles V, 16) Baptism of Charles VI. 94. fol. 137 (Charles V, 21) Marriage of Philip the Bold and Margaret of Flanders. 95. fol. 142 (Charles V, 37) Baptism of Louis, second son of Charles V. 96. fol. 149v (Charles V, 60) Meeting of Charles V and his uncle, Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor. 97. fol. 157v (Charles V, 97) Cardinals and pope enter Fondi in the kingdom of Naples. 98. fol. 163 (Charles VI, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: Netherlandish artist in Paris, c. 1410–20 (see Meiss).

REFERENCE: Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourg Brothers and Their Contemporaries (New York, 1974), 25 n. 62, and pl. 83.

London, Guildhall, Ms. 244
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8; 2(9)8; 3(17)8, 8th lacks; 4(29)8–18(136)8; 19(144)12; 20(156)8–43(340)8; 44(348)10, 1st excised; 45(357)8–61(485)8; 62(493)4. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Cy commence les croniques. . . . T: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: conde raison si peut . . . ; fol. 3: emprindrent l'empereur . . . ; fol. 4 (2nd folio of text): assist et la prist . . . ; fol. 496: d'oise et la riviere de Marne. . . . Explicit: fol. 496v: T:  . . . consentirent et orent agreable. R: Cy finissent les croniques de France jusques au roy Charles VI^e de son nom.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) four parts: Horsemen, among them one French prince, ride/ Elenus the poet dictating/ Battle/ Figure clad in fleur-de-lis robe, crowned, receives crowd. 2. fol. 14 (II, 1) Clovis and Clotilda enthroned with their four crowned sons on a bench to the left. 3. fol. 29v (III, 1) Marriage of King Chilperic and Queen Galswintha. 4. fol. 51v (IV, 1) Battle between three kings and their armies—Guntram and Childebert against Gondoald(?) (if so, illustrates IV, 2). 5. fol. 65v (V, 1) King Dagobert supervises construction of Saint-Denis (illustrates V, 9). 6. fol. 89v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1). 7. fol. 134 (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Louis the Pious points out relics to clerics (illustrates Louis the Pious, 10?). 8. fol. 156v (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 9. fol. 169v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Emperor (sic ) presents sword and scepter to Louis. 10. fol. 184 (Robert, 1) French king and army besiege Melun. 11. fol. 192v (Philip I, 1) Philip I and army besiege castle of Monmeliant. 12. fol. 202v (Louis VI, 1) Pope Gelasian greeted by French king as he flees from Rome to take refuge in France (illustrates Louis VI, 15). 13. fol. 223v (Louis VII, 1) Marriage of Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine (illustrates Louis VII, 2). 14. fol. 235v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) At left, angel swoops down to Louis VII sleeping in bed and holding a chalice; at right, Queen Alix sits in bed and midwives hold her baby. 15. fol. 275v (Louis VIII, 1) Louis VIII besieges La Rochelle (illustrates Louis VIII, 2). 16. fol. 279v (Saint Louis, 1) Louis VIII besieges Avignon. 17. fol. 313v (Philip III, 1) Saint Louis and army besiege Tunis(?). 18. fol. 331v (Philip IV, 1) Homage of Edward I of England to Philip; battle scene in foreground. 19. fol. 355v (Louis X, 1) Coronation. 20. fol. 357v (Philip V, 1) Coronation. 21. fol. 362 (Charles IV, 1) Homage of a king (?). 22. fol. 272v (Philip of Valois, 1) Homage of Edward III of England to Philip (illustrates Philip of Valois, 6). 23. fol. 410v (John the Good, 1) Coronation of John; jousting in foreground. 24. fol. 416 (John the Good, 19) Battle of Poitiers. 25. fol. 455v (Charles V, 1) Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon stand during coronation ceremony.

STYLE: Four artists. I: fols. 14, 51v, 65, 89v, 184, 202v, 223v, 235v, 275v, 313v, 331v, 355v, 357v, 362, 410v, 455v. II: fols. 29v, 156v, 192v, 279v, 372v, 416. III: fol. 134. IV (Principal artist of B.N. fr. 823): fol. 169v.

REFERENCES: Neil Ripley Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries (Oxford, 1969–), 1:69–70; P. W. Reeves, "The Guildhall Chronicles of the Kings of France," Guildhall Miscellany 2 (1953): 3–15.

Lyon, Bibliothèque de la Ville de Lyon, Ms. 880
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1350)

COLLATION: 1(1)8, 2nd and 6th lack; 2(7)8–35(271)8; 36(279)7, 7th added; 37(286)8–52(406)8; 53(414)5, 5th tipped to 1st. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Ce sont les croniques . . . T: C'il qui ceste euvre . . . ; fol. 2 lacks; fol. 3 (second folio of the chronicle): lignie. Eneas qui . . . ; fol. 418: L'an de grace. . . . Explicit: fol. 418v: . . . pardurablement apres sa mort.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Monk writing. 2. folio lacks between fols. 1 and 2 (I, 1) offset. 3. fol. 3 (I, 4) Coronation of Pharamond. 4. folio lacks between fols. 4 and 5 (I, 10) offset. 5. fol. 7 (I, 15) Coronation of Clovis. 6. fol. 9v (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 7. fol. 13 (II, 1) Four sons of Clovis enthroned. 8. fol. 21 (II, 14) Queen Clotilda prays in the Church of Saint-Martin at Tours. 9. fol. 30 (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha as she sleeps. 10. fol. 33 (III, 4) Murder of Sigebert. 11. fol. 42 (III, 14) Bishops contradict King Chilperic's heresy. 12. fol. 52v (IV, 1) At left, kneeling king offers one of two enthroned kings a crown; at right, two other kings stand (? King Guntram designates his nephew, Childebert, as his heir). 13. fol. 63v (IV, 20) Torture of Queen Brunhilda. 14. fol. 66v (V, 1) Surrender of Saxons to Clotaire II. 15. fol. 70v (V, 6) Clotaire II kills Duke Bertold. 16. fol. 75 (V, 12) Emperor Heraclius (here a king) battles the Saracens. 17. fol. 81 (V, 19) Archbishop of Poitiers arrives to hear about the vision of Dagobert's death seen by John, a hermit. 18. fol. 85v (V, 25) Coronation, either Chilperic II, Clotaire IV, or Thierry IV. 19. fol. 86v (V, 26) Charles Martel battles Saracens. 20. fol. 92 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Emperor Charlemagne enthroned, holding globe and scepter (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. II). 21. fol. 102v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 12+) Charlemagne's son, King Pepin, defeats the king of the Huns. 22. fol. 105 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor at Rome. 23. fol. 108v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 5) Surrender of messenger from Saragossa. 24. fol. 111v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne receives the messenger of the Eastern emperor (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. III, 5). 25. fol. 121v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to Charlemagne. 26. fol. 130v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) King (sic ) Charlemagne receives gifts sent by the Saracens. 27. fol. 138 (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Louis enthroned holding orb and scepter. 28. fol. 159v (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 29. fol. 182v (Lothaire, 1) King enthroned. 30. fol. 185 (Hugh Capet, 1) Coronation. 31. fol. 189 (Henry, 1) Queen Constance and her two sons at the deathbed of King Robert. 32. fol. 204 (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 33. fol. 210v (Louis VI, 8) King Louis battles Count Thibaut. 34. fol. 239v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Queen sleeps in bed; King Louis VII sits in a chair and holds his swaddled infant. 35. fol. 245v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 12) Philip receives messengers from the Eastern emperor. 36. fol. 248 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 18) Philip speaks with monks of Saint-Denis. 37. fol. 253v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Capture of Le Mans or Tours. 38. fol. 256v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 5) Philip leads army into ships (? departure for Acre). 39. fol. 262 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 14) Capture of chateau of Aumale. 40. fol. 269 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Amaury de Bene preaching. 41. fol. 274 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 10) Battle of Bouvines. 42. fol. 277v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 14) Philip is knocked off his horse by footsoldiers with iron hooks. 43. fol. 282v (Louis VIII, 1) Coronation. 44. fol. 286 (Louis IX, 1) Nimbed Louis IX enthroned. 45. fol. 292 (Saint Louis, 23) Count Thibaut crowned king of Navarre. 46. fol. 298v (Saint Louis, 43) King Louis receives messengers from Tartaria. 47. fol. 304v (Saint Louis, 59) Louis leaves messengers in Damietta to guard his goods and prisoners. 48. fol. 311 (Saint Louis, 77) Nimbed Louis IX washes the feet of the poor. 49. fol. 315 (Saint Louis, 91) Charles of Anjou is crowned king of Sicily. 50. fol. 318 (Saint Louis, 98) Battle of Henry of Castile and Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily. 51. fol. 320 (Saint Louis, 105) King Louis and army enter ships to go on crusade. 52. fol. 323 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, arrives at Tunis. 53. fol. 325v (Philip III, 7) Kings of Tunis and France make peace. 54. fol. 329 (Philip III, 15) Coronation of Philip. 55. fol. 336v (Philip III, 35) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, pays homage to the pope. 56. fol. 340v (Philip IV, 1) Edward I of England, not crowned, pays homage to Philip. 57. fol. 342v (Philip IV, 6) Capture of Acre by the sultan of Babylon. 58. fol. 347v (Philip IV, 25) King Philip lifts the nimbed body of Saint Louis from his sepulchre as bishops watch. 59. fol. 350v (Philip IV, 42) Battle of Courtrai. 60. fol. 352v (Philip IV, 47) King discusses with Cardinal Le Moine (illustrates Philip IV, 46). 61. fol. 354 (Philip IV, 54) A monk battles the devil. 62. fol. 355v (Philip IV, 57) Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle. 63. fol. 362v (Philip IV, 69) Henry, the

Holy Roman Emperor, receives communion. 64. fol. 365v (Philip V, 1) Coronation. 65. fol. 370 (Charles IV, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: Several artists took part. Among the most distinctive are: I (Principal artist of B.N. fr. 823): fols. 286, 311? II: fols. 75, 102v, 105, 130v, 185, 189, 245v, 253v, 315, 336v, 340v, 350v, 362v, 370. III: fols. 30, 70v, 318. IV: fol. 298v. V: fols. 85v, 108v, 248.

PROVENANCE: On the back flyleaf, below an illegible sixteenth-century inscription, is a signature. Delisle cites speculation that this is the signature of Charles VI or John of Berry. Unfortunately, it cannot be read, even with ultraviolet light.

REFERENCES: Léopold Delisle, Recherches sur la libraire de Charles V (Paris, 1907), 1:317–18; Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts, Catalogue général . . . Départements 30:241.

Lyon, Bibliothèque de la Ville de Lyon, P.A. 30
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–10(73)8; 11(81)2; 12(83)9; 13(92)8–33(252)8; 34(260)4; 35(264)1; 36(265)8–41(297)8; 42(305)9, 6th tipped; 43(314)8–46(338)8; 47(346)3, 1st excised; 48(349)8–54(397)8; 55(405)6; 56(411)8–60(443)8; 61(451)6. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Cy commence les grans croniques. T: C'il qui ceste . . . ; fol. 2: france et com ment il . . . ; fol. 3: R: Comment les francois sont. . . . T: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 4 (second folio of text): son filz. L'autre . . . ; fol. 456: d'aniou frere du. . . . Explicit: fol. 456v: . . . grant foison de biens.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Monk presents book to king. 2. fol. 3 (I, 1) four parts: Horsemen ride out of a city/ Coronation of Pharamond/ Battle between French and Romans/ King supervises construction of Sicambria. 3. fol. 11 (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 4. fol. 14v (II, 1) Clovis's four sons divide the realm. 5. fol. 19 (II, 9) Kings Clotaire and Childebert kill their nephews. 6. fol. 24 (II, 18) Battle between French, led by the king, and the Saxons. 7. fol. 26 (II, 21) King leads French army in battle. 8. fol. 29v (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha while she sleeps and two women watch. 9. fol. 35v (III, 8) King Chilperic assembles a council to condemn the archbishop of Rouen. 10. fol. 40v (III, 14) Prelates contradict King Chilperic's heresy. 11. fol. 44 (III, 18) Sorceresses burnt at the stake and tortured on wheels. 12. fol. 46v (III, 22) King Guntram insults the messengers of King Childebert, his nephew. 13. fol. 50 (IV, 1) Discussion of three kings. 14. fol. 53v (IV, 8) Queen Fredegunda holds her crowned baby and rides at the head of an army against King Childebert's army. 15. fol. 57v (IV, 16) King Theoderic defeats King Theodebert. 16. fol. 62v (V, 1) King Clotaire battles the Lombards. 17. fol. 75v (V, 20) Barons of France and Burgundy present Clovis II with gold. 18. fol. 84 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Coronation. 19. fol. 95v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor. 20. fol. 101v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne supervises construction. 21. fol. 110v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James and four angels appear to Charlemagne as he sleeps; three bearded men are by his bed. 22. fol. 119 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 23. fol. 125v (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Louis receives scepter from kneeling queen (? miscopies Louis the Stammerer, 1). 24. fol. 146v (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 25. fol. 158v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Woman (sic ) presents sword and scepter to the king. 26. fol. 180v (Philip I, 1) King and army sail to Holy Land. 27. fol. 190 (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 28. fol. 211 (Louis VII, 1) Louis VII enters Paris. 29. fol. 223 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Christological vision of Louis VII. 30. fol. 235v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Siege of Tours or Le Mans. 31. fol. 250 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Philip supervises burning of heretics. 32. fol. 265v (Saint Louis, 1) Coronation (illustrates Saint Louis, 2). 33. fol. 295v (Philip III, 2) Philip and his army return to France in ships. 34. fol. 311 (Philip IV, 1) Battle between knights. 35. fol. 322v (Philip IV, 54) A monk battles the devil. 36. fol. 334 (Louis X, 1) Army rides in landscape. 37. fol. 335v (Philip V, 1) Coronation. 38. fol. 340 (Charles IV, 1) King discusses

with a baron. 39. fol. 349 (Philip of Valois, 1) Barons discuss the succession. 40. fol. 381 (John the Good, 1) Coronation. 41. fol. 418 (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon. 42. fol. 456 (Charles VI, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: Two artists. I: fols. 1, 11, 14v, 19, 24, 26, 29v, 35v, 40v, 44, 46v, 50, 53v, 57v, 62v, 75v, 95v, 101v, 110v, 119, 125v, 146v, 211?, 223?, 265v, 295v, 311?, 322v?, 334, 340, 349. II: fols. 3, 84, 158v, 180v?, 190, 235v?, 250, 335v, 381, 418, 456.

REFERENCE: Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts, Catalogue général . . . Départements , 31:13.

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. Gall. 4
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to end of Philip Augustus, Bk. II)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–7(49)8; 8(53)8, skips foliation from 54–59; 9(65)8–33(257)8; 34(265)8, last lacks. Incipits: fol. 1: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: le xx^e parle de la cause . . . ; fol. 3: son fils qui espousa . . . ; fol. 4 (second folio of text): leur plut moult et moult . . . ; fol. 271: les gens qui habitoient. . . . Explicit: fol. 271v: . . . monsieur saint denis de France. R: Le premier chapitre parle comment. . . [rubric for Philip Augustus Bk. III, 1].

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 2v (I, 1) four parts: Coronation of Pharamond/ Founding of Sicambria/ Battle scene/ Barons eject Childeric I from kingdom. 2. fol. 14v (II, 1) Execution of King Sigismund of Burgundy and his children. 3. fol. 31v (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha. 4. fol. 53 (IV, 1) King receives messengers. 5. fol. 66 (V, 1) Three men kneel before the two daughters of Romilde—the queen of Germany and the duchess of Bavaria (illustrates IV, 24+). 6. fol. 87 (V, 28) Grifon leads army against his brothers' forces. 7. fol. 90v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Einhard writing. 8. fol. 103v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Emperor Charlemagne judges those who had conspired against Pope Leo III. 9. fol. 110 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) King Charlemagne supervises construction of Aix-la-Chapelle. 10. fol. 120 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to sleeping King Charlemagne. 11. fol. 126 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 8) Charlemagne and others watch Roland kill Ferragut. 12. fol. 129 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 13. fol. 137 (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Charlemagne has Louis crowned king of Aquitaine. 14. fol. 160 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 15. fol. 168v (Charles the Bald, 9) Charles the Bald supervises the baptism of the Normans. 16. fol. 174 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Louis leads an army on horseback. 17. fol. 177v (Louis the Stammerer, 5) Coronation of Boson and Charles. 18. fol. 183 (Louis IV, 1) Coronation. 19. fol. 187 (Lothaire, 1) Coronation. 20. fol. 190v (Robert, 1) King Robert supervises the siege of Melun. 21. fol. 209 (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 22. fol. 224v (Louis VI, 19) King Louis accepts the surrender of Clermont. 23. fol. 231 (Louis VII, 1) Louis receives message of his father's death. 24. fol. 243v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Coronation. 25. fol. 253v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 22) Battle of English and French. 26. fol. 256v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Surrender of Le Mans or Tours. 27. offset on fol. 271v suggests that this manuscript originally continued past the second book of the life of Philip Augustus to include at least the third book of Philip's life.

STYLE: At least four artists participated. I: fols. 14v, 103v, 110. II: fols. 31v, 53, 66, 120, 126, 129?, 137?. III: fols. 87, 90v. IV (Follower of Virgil Master): fols. 2v?, 160, 168v, 174?, 177v, 183v, 187, 190v, 209v?, 224v?, 231?, 243v, 253v, 256v.

New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. 536
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1384)

COLLATION: 1(1)2; 2(3)12–9(87)12; 10(99)12, 5th and 6th lack; 11(109)12; 12(121)12; 13(133)12, 8th lacks; 14(144)12, 5th lacks; 15(155)12; 16(167)4; 17(171)13, 13th tipped; 18(184)12–20(208)12; 21(220)6; 22(226)14; 23(240)12–33(360)12; 34(372)6, 5th excised. Incipits: fol. 1: R:

Cy commence les fais des roys. . . . T: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of text): de methode si comme . . . ; fol. 376: ensuivant se parti. . . . Explicit: fol. 376v: . . . devant le corps du dit conte.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Monk writing. 2. fol. 2 (I, 1) four parts: Three scenes with fugitives at sea (Helenos, Aeneas, and Antenor?)/ Presentation of book to Charles VI. 3. fol. 3 (I, 4) Construction of Paris. 4. fol. 4 (I, 7) Barons eject Childeric I from kingdom. 5. fol. 7 (I, 15) Clovis, on horseback, besieges Soissons. 6. fol. 9v (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 7. fol. 12 (II, 1) Queen Clotilda divides realm among her four sons. 8. fol. 21v (II, 19) Burning of the monastery of Saint-Martin at Tours. 9. fol. 24 (II, 23) Division of the realm among the four sons of Clotaire. 10. fol. 26 (III, 1) Fredegunda watches King Chilperic strangle Queen Galswintha as she sleeps. 11. fol. 39v (III, 21) Escape of Gondoalz from prison. 12. fol. 43 (IV, 1) Kings Guntram and Childebert receive messengers. 13. fol. 54 (V, 1) Clotaire and French battle Lombards. 14. fol. 60 (V, 11) Baptism of Dagobert's illegitimate son, Sigebert. 15. fol. 65v (V, 20) Barons of France and Burgundy pay homage to Clovis, youthful heir to Dagobert. 16. fol. 67v (V, 23+) Coronation of Clotaire; his mother, Queen Bauthieut, watches. 17. fol. 69 (V, 25) Charles Martel imprisoned by his mother. 18. fol. 71 (V, 28) Surrender of Duke Hunan of Aquitaine. 19. fol. 73v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Einhard writing. 20. fol. 83v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome. 21. fol. 89 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) King Charlemagne supervises construction of Aix-la-Chapelle. 22. fol. 96v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to enthroned Charlemagne. 23. folio following fol. 102 lacks (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) offset. 24. fol. 107v (Louis the Pious, 1) King Louis enters Aquitaine. 25. fol. 126 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 26. fol. 137 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Council of barons with Louis. 27. folio lacks following fol. 139 (Louis the Stammerer, 5). 28. fol. 140v. (Louis the Stammerer, 7) Louis III abducts a nun from the convent of Chiele. 29. fol. 141 (Charles the Simple, 1) Archbishop of Rouen welcomes Rollo, the first duke of Normandy, who disembarks with his army. 30. fol. 143 (Louis IV, 1) Queen Algive and her son, Louis IV, receive message from a cardinal (sic ) in England. 31. fol. 146v (Lothaire, 1) Lothaire receives the barons. 32. folio lacks after fol. 147 (Louis V, 1 or Hugh Capet, 1) offset. 33. fol. 148 (Robert, 1) Robert writes in his study. 34. fol. 150v (Henry, 1) Henry and his army confront his mother and her army. 35. fol. 154v (Philip I, 1) Marriage of Philip I and Queen Berthe. 36. fol. 163 (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 37. fol. 181 (Louis VII, 1) Young King Louis rides from Aquitaine to Paris. 38. fol. 191 (Philip Augustus Bk. I, 1) Christological vision of Louis VII. 39. fol. 201v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Surrender of Tours or Le Mans. 40. fol. 214 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Philip Augustus supervises the burning of heretics. 41. fol. 224 (Louis VIII, 1) Coronation of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile, King John of Jerusalem in attendance. 42. fol. 228 (Saint Louis, 1) Louis VIII rides into a courtyard. 43. fol. 255 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, arrives at the deathbed of Saint Louis in Tunis. 44. fol. 268v (Philip IV, 1) Edward I (here a duke) pays homage to Philip. 45. fol. 286v (Louis X, 1) Louis X recalls the Jews into France. 46. fol. 287v (Philip V, 1) Coronation. 47. fol. 291 (Charles IV, 1) Pope performs marriage of Charles IV and Maria of Bohemia. 48. fol. 299v (Philip of Valois, 2) Louis of Bavaria crowned king (sic ) by pope. 49. fol. 326v (John the Good, 1) John the Good knights men. 50. fol. 353v (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon. 51. fol. 368v (Charles VI, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: Master of the Cité des Dames .

REFERENCE: De Ricci and Wilson, Census , 2:1468 no. 536.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce Ms. 217
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–30(233)8; 31(241)6; 32(247)8–41(319)8; 42(327)2; 43(329)8–56(433)8; 57(441)6, 6th excised. Incipits: fol. 1: C'il qui ceste oeuvre commence . . . ; fol. 2: R: Cy

commence la genealogie des roys . . . T: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 3 (2nd folio of text): divers noms car les uns . . . ; fol. 445: accompli son xii an. . . . Explicit: fol. 445: . . . et emmenerent grant foison de. R: Cy fenissent les croniques de France jusques au fais de Roy Charles VI^e qui contiennent ccccxliiij feullez.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (I, 1) four parts: Horsemen set out from city/ Elenus, the poet, dictating/ Battle/ Coronation of Pharamond? 2. fol. 12 (II, 1) Clovis and Clotilda enthroned with their four crowned sons seated on a bench to the left. 3. fol. 26v (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha. 4. fol. 45v (IV, 1) Battle (three kings): Guntram and Childebert against Gondoald? (if so, illustrates IV, 2). 5. fol. 57v (V, 1) King Dagobert supervises construction of Saint-Denis (illustrates V, 9). 6. fol. 77v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome. 7. fol. 94 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne is greeted by the emperor of Constantinople outside the city walls (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. III, 6). 8. fol. 103v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James and an angel appear to the sleeping Emperor Charlemagne. 9. fol. 108v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 7) Emperor Charlemagne and King Marsile watch the battle between Roland and Ferragut. 10. fol. 112 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 11. fol. 120 (Louis the Pious, 1) King Louis, enthroned, points out relics to clerics (illustrates Louis the Pious, 10?). 12. fol. 141 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 13. fol. 153 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Emperor (sic ) presents sword and scepter to Louis. 14. fol. 174 (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 15. fol. 192 (Louis VII, 1) Wedding of Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine (illustrates Louis VII, 2). 16. fol. 202v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) At left, queen reclines on a bed and is handed her baby by two midwives; at right, King Louis VII lies in bed and looks up at an angel who swoops down with a chalice. 17. fol. 214 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Siege of Acre (illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 5). 18. fol. 227v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Philip Augustus enthroned, surrounded by his court. 19. fol. 238v (Louis VIII, 1) Louis VIII besieges La Rochelle (illustrates Louis VIII, 2). 20. fol. 242v (Saint Louis, 1) Louis VIII besieges Avignon. 21. fol. 276 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, and army enter ships. 22. fol. 292 (Philip IV, 1) Battle. 23. fol. 313v (Philip V, 1) Wedding (illustrates Philip V, 2). 24. fol. 320 (Charles IV, 1) Coronation. 25. fol. 330 (Philip of Valois, 3) King Edward III of England pays homage to Philip (illustrates Philip of Valois, 6). 26. fol. 349 (Philip of Valois, 31) Philip hears complaints of Norman barons. 27. fol. 364 (John the Good, 1) Coronation. 28. fol. 405v (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon.

STYLE: Two artists. I: related to the style of Jehan de Nizières—all miniatures but those on fols. 228–329. II: miniatures on fols. 228–329.

REFERENCE: Reeves, "Guildhall Chronicles," 3–15.

Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms. 5223
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–38(297)8; 39(305)4; 40(313)8–42(329)8; 43(337)10, 5th excised; 44(346)8–58(458)8; 59(466)6, 6th excised. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Cy sont les croniques des roys de France. . . . T: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: R: Le premier chapitre. . . . T: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of text): Entre la grant mer et . . . ; fol. 470: Si comme l'en disoit. . . . Explicit: fol. 470: . . . lesquelx le consentirent et orent agreable.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 2 (I, 1) four parts: Enthroned monk writes manuscript, others discuss/ Founding of Sicambria/ Battle/ Nobles watch monks present book to Charles VI. 2. fol. 14 (II, 1) Queen Clotilda divides realm among her four sons. 3. fol. 29 (III, 1) At the instigation of Fredegunda, King Chilperic slits the throat of Queen Galswintha as she sleeps. 4. fol. 49v (IV, 1) King Guntram dictates to a scribe as a second king watches. 5. fol. 62 (V, 1) French army routs the Lombards. 6. fol. 85 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Charlemagne enthroned with nobles; Einhard writes at left. 7. fol. 97v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo

III crowns Charlemagne king (sic ) in Rome. 8. fol. 104 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne receives relics (the saint clou ) from messengers (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. III, 9). 9. fol. 112v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James, accompanied by two angels, shows sleeping Emperor Charlemagne the vision of the starry road. 10. fol. 121 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 11. fol. 128 (Louis the Pious, 1) Louis the Pious exiles Adalaric, a Gascon noble. 12. fol. 149v (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 13. fol. 161 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Emperor (sic ) presents Louis with sword and scepter. 14. fol. 176 (Robert, 1) Robert besieges the city of Melun. 15. fol. 179v (Henry, 1) King and knights besiege a city. 16. fol. 184v (Philip I, 1) Battle, in which armies led by two kings defeat those led by two emperors. 17. fol. 194v (Louis VI, 1) Battle. 18. fol. 215 (Louis VII, 1) Wedding of Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine (illustrates Louis VII, 2). 19. fol. 227 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Coronation (illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 3). 20. fol. 239 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Siege of Le Mans or Tours. 21. fol. 253v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Suppression of Amaurian heresy. 22. fol. 264 (Louis VIII, 1) Coronation of Louis VIII. 23. fol. 268 (Saint Louis, 1) Siege of Avignon by Louis VIII. 24. fol. 301 (Philip III, 1) French king and army outside Tunis. 25. fol. 318 (Philip IV, 1) Edward I of England pays homage to Philip. 26. fol. 341v (Louis X, 1) Coronation of Louis X. 27. fol. 343 (Philip V, 1) Enthroned king surrounded by clerics and nobles. 28. fol. 347v (Charles IV, 1) King submits to another ruler (? Louis, son of the count of Nevers, pays homage to Charles for the county). 29. fol. 356v (Philip of Valois, 1) Knight pays homage to Philip of Valois (? surrender of the count of Flanders, illustrates Philip of Valois, 5). 30. fol. 392v (John the Good, 1) Coronation of John the Good. 31. fol. 397v (John the Good, 19+) Battle of Poitiers. 32. fol. 433 (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne de Bourbon.

STYLE: Principal artist of B.N. fr. 823.

PROVENANCE: This book was in the possession of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy at the time of the inventory taken in 1420: "no. 239. Item. ung autre grant livre des cronicques de france couvert de drap de soye de damas noir, duquel les fermouers sont coupez et ostez, commencant ou ii^e fueillet Entre le grant mer et ou derrenier Si comme l'on disoit ."

REFERENCES: Georges Doutrepont, Inventaire de la "librairie" de Philippe le Bon (1420) (Brussels, 1906), 161–62 no. 239; Henri Martin, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (Paris, 1889), 5:165.

Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Institut, Ms. 324
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: original foliation given in brackets. 1(1[59])8, 1st and 2nd lack; 2(7[65])8; 3(15[81])8; 4(23[41])8, 2nd to 8th excised; 5(24[49])8; 6(32[48])1; 7(33[42])6; 8(43[73])8–12(71[113])8; 13(79[121])9, 9th (fol. 87[137]) tipped; 14(88[138])6; 15(94[144])9, 2nd tipped; 16(103[153])8–60(455[537])8; 61(463[545])8, 8th excised. The correct order of the text is gatherings 4, 7, 6, 5, 1, 2, 8, 3, 9–61. Before gathering 4, the text from the origins to the middle of III, 3 lacks. At the beginning of gathering 1, two folios containing from the middle of III, 18 to the middle of III, 20 are missing. In the current thirteenth gathering, between the eighth and ninth folios, eight folios containing the middle of Charlemagne, Bk. III, 6 to the middle of Charlemagne, Bk. III, 7 are missing. Finally, between gatherings 26 and 27, 30 folios containing the middle of Louis VI, 5 to Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 4 are missing. Incipits: missing. Explicit: fol. 469v [551v]: . . . grant foison de.

MINIATURES: Contains one historiated initial; in addition many initials three lines high contain faces. 1. fol. 109 [159] (Louis the Pious, 1) 6-line HI: Nude man holding a leaf over his nakedness presents a chalice to a bearded man on the other side of a table (?) (no textual source).

STYLE: At least two artists. I: fol. 109[159]. II: fol. 403[485].

Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Ms. 2028
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–27(209)8; 28(217)9, 9th added(?); 29(226)10, 10th excised; 30(234)8–57(450)8; 58(458)8, 8th excised. Incipits: fol. 1: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: le xviii^e chapitre comment la royne . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of chronicle): garde car ilz . . . ; fol. 463: a plaisiers. Et alerent. . . . Explicit: fol. 463v: . . . le consentirent et orent agreable. Cy fenissent le fais de bon roy charles le quint.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 2 (I, 1) large miniature: Flight from Troy; boats bear arms of France and Brittany. 2. fol. 14 (II, 1) Clotilda divides realm among her four sons. 3. fol. 31 (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha; outside Fredegunda talks to nobles. 4. fol. 52v (IV, 1) King Guntram designates his nephew, Childebert, as his heir in Burgundy. 5. fol. 65v (V, 1) Treaty with the Lombards. 6. fol. 88 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Einhard writing. 7. fol. 99v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Emperor Charlemagne receives messengers from Constantinople. 8. fol. 106 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne, his queen, and their son supervise the construction of Aix-la-Chapelle. 9. fol. 115 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to Charlemagne and his army. 10. fol. 124 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Charlemagne receives Ganelon, who brings presents from the Saracens. 11. fol. 131 (Louis the Pious, 1) Charlemagne has the pope crown the infant Louis king of Aquitaine. 12. fol. 152v (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy; arms of Burgundy, of Charlemagne, and France ancienne . 13. fol. 164v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Empress Richilda gives Louis scepter and sword. 14. fol. 178v (Robert, 1) King Robert dictates to scribe. 15. fol. 182 (Henry, 1) Queen Constance wants to crown her second son Robert, duke of Burgundy, as king of France instead of Henry. 16. fol. 186v (Philip I, 1) Eudes Arpin, count of Bourges, sells the county to Philip I and goes on crusade. 17. fol. 196 (Louis VI, 1) Louis receives messengers sent to prevent his coronation. 18. fol. 215v (Louis VII, 1) Mourners by the bier of Louis VI. 19. fol. 226 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Louis VII's Christological vision. 20. fol. 263 (Louis VIII, 1) Coronation of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile. 21. fol. 267 (Saint Louis, 1) Death of Louis VIII in Montpensier. 22. fol. 300 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, arrives at the deathbed of Saint Louis. 23. fol. 317 (Philip IV, 1) Duke Edward of England pays homage to Philip. 24. fol. 339 (Louis X, 1) Coronation of Louis X and Clemence of Hungary. 25. fol. 340v (Philip V, 1) Philip V talks to cardinal sent to negotiate peace between France and Flanders. 26. fol. 345 (Charles IV, 1) Marriage of Charles IV and Maria of Bohemia performed by the pope. 27. fol. 354v (Philip of Valois, 1) A pregnant queen, barons, and clerics discuss the royal succession. 28. fol. 389v (John the Good, 1) John the Good knights a noble. 29. fol. 427v (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon.

STYLE: Two artists. I (Master of the Cité des Dames ): fols. 2, 14, 31, 124, 131, 152v, 164v, 178v, 182, 186v, 196, 215v, 226, 263, 267, 300, 317, 339, 340v, 345, 354v, 389v, 427v. II (Master of the Épistre Othéa ): fols. 52v, 65v, 88, 99v, 106, 115.

REFERENCES: Auguste Marie Louis Émile Molinier, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Mazarine (Paris, 1885–92), 2:328 no. 2028: Jean Porcher, Les manuscrits à peintures en France du XIII^e au XVI^e siècle (Paris, 1955), 76 no. 151.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 73
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–10(73)8; 11(81)4; 12(85)9, 1st tipped(?); 13(94)8–27(206)8; 28(214)4; 29(218)8; 30(226)3; 31(229)8–42(319)8; 43(327)7, 1st tipped (? has catchword on verso); 44(334)8–49(374)8; 50(382)2; 51(384)8–55(416)8; 56(424)8, 2nd lacks; 57(431)8–60(455)8. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Cy commence les grans. . . . T: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: fist contre le roy alarich . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of text): des francois anemis des . . . ; fol. 462: de chastellet et sentre. . . . Explicit: fol. 462v: . . . lesquels le consentment et orent agrable.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 2 (I, 1) four parts: Paris and Helen set sail for Troy/ Greeks arrive at Troy/ Flight from Troy/ Presentation of book to king. 2. fol. 13v (II, 1) Clovis and Clotilda divide realm among their three sons. 3. fol. 28v (III, 1) King receives message. 4. fol. 50 (IV, 1) Nobles kneel before King Guntram and his heir, his nephew King Childebert. 5. fol. 63 (V, 1) Saint Arnoul makes peace between King Clotaire and Dagobert (illustrates V, 5). 6. fol. 86v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Einhard writing. 7. fol. 128v (Louis the Pious, 1) Charlemagne crowns young Louis king of Aquitaine. 8. fol. 150 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 9. fol. 163 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Empress Richilda brings a crown and main-de-justice to Louis. 10. fol. 171v (Louis IV, 1) Queen Algive receives French messengers asking her to bring her young son back to France. 11. fol. 195v (Louis VI, 1) Philip I mourned by nobles and clergy (illustrates Philip I, 15). 12. fol. 226v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Monks explain Louis VII's dreams about his son. 13. fol. 238v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Philip leads his troops. 14. fol. 263v (Louis VIII, 1) Birth of Louis VIII. 15. fol. 267 (Saint Louis, 1) Barons murmuring against the king (illustrates Saint Louis, 3?). 16. fol. 298v (Philip III, 1) Coronation. 17. fol. 313v (Philip IV, 1) Homage of King Edward I of England to Philip. 18. fol. 340v (Charles IV, 1) King sends messenger. 19. fol. 351 (Philip of Valois, 1) Barons discuss the royal succession. 20. fol. 386 (John the Good, 1) John knighting three nobles. 21. folio after fol. 424 lacks (Charles V, 1?).

STYLE: Follower of the Virgil Master.

PROVENANCE: The earliest known owner of this manuscript was Robert Jolivet, abbot of Mont Saint-Michel from 1410–44, who joined the English in 1420. He bought this book in 1438. Colophon (fol. 462): "Iste cronicas(?) sunt Robert abbet. montis sancti michaelis in periculo marie empte per eum anno domini m^mo cccc tricesimo ottavo." The manuscript probably passed to the abbey with other goods after his death; it stayed there until the seventeenth century.

REFERENCES: Léopold Delisle, Le cabinet des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Imperiale (Paris, 1891), 3:385; Henri Omont et al., Bibliothèque nationale. Catalogue général des manuscrits français (Paris, 1895–1918), Anciens fonds français 1:5 no. 73

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 2597
Grandes Chroniques de France (from I, 14 to 1380)

COLLATION: First gathering of eight lacks; 1(1)8–49(385)8; 50(393)4; 51(397)8–55(429)8; 56(437)6; 57(443)2. Incipits: fol. 1: si se souffoy . . . ; fol. 2: Ou gestes en caves . . . ; fol. 442: s'en furent a ypre. . . . Explicit: fol. 442v: T: Et y mourut grant foison de leurs gens et de leurs chevaux. R: Explicit.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (I, 14) Pope Anastasis in purgatory with a bishop. 2. fol. 1v (I, 15) Coronation of Clovis. 3. fol. 2 (I, 16) Clotilda takes care of beggars. 4. fol. 4 (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 5. fol. 7 (II, 1) Clovis and Clotilda enthroned with their four crowned sons seated at the right. 6. fol. 24v (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha. 7. fol. 49v (IV, 1) Battle. 8. fol. 64 (IV, 25) King Clotaire meeting with his barons. 9. fol. 65 (V, 1) King Dagobert supervises construction of Saint-Denis (illustrates V, 9). 10. fol. 79v (V, 20) Clovis II riding with nobles. 11. fol. 86 (V, 28) Pepin battles his brothers. 12. fol. 89v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Charlemagne crowned emperor by a bishop (sic ) (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1). 13. fol. 103 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Charlemagne crowned emperor by a bishop (sic ). 14. fol. 110 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Meeting of Emperor Charlemagne and Emperor Constantine at Constantinople (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. III, 6). 15. fol. 114 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 5) Arrival of messengers from Constantinople (?). 16. fol. 120v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James and an angel appear to Charlemagne. 17. fol. 130v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 18. fol. 138 (Louis the Pious, 1) King Louis points out relics to clerics (illustrates Louis the Pious, 10?). 19. fol. 162 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 20. fol. 179 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Emperor (sic ) presents Louis

with a scepter. 21. fol. 199 (Hugh Capet, 1) Battle, one army led by king. 22. fol. 223 (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 23. fol. 246v (Louis VII, 1) Marriage of Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine (illustrates Louis VII, 2). 24. fol. 260v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) At left, two midwives present the queen, who lies in bed, with her baby; at right, an angel swoops down to the king, who sleeps in his bed. 25. fol. 275 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Siege of Acre (illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 5). 26. fol. 292 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Philip Augustus enthroned at court. 27. fol. 305 (Saint Louis, 1) King enthroned in tent receives message. 28. fol. 338 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, and army enter ships. 29. fol. 346 (Philip IV, 1) Battle. 30. fol. 360 (Louis X, 1) Wedding of Louis and Clemence of Hungary. 31. fol. 371 (Philip of Valois, 1) Coronation of Jeanne of Navarre and Louis of Evreux as king and queen of Navarre. 32. fol. 393 (John the Good, 1) Coronation. 33. fol. 417v (Charles V, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: Artist of Épistre Othéa (Cambridge Newnham College Library, Ms. 900 [5]).

REFERENCE: Omont, Catalogue général, Anciens fonds français 1:435 no. 2597.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 2604
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)12–43(505)12; 44(517)4, 2nd excised. Incipits: fol. 1: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: le iii^e comment et . . . ; fol. 3: in ans astamus . . . ; fol. 4 (second folio of chronicle): en cesse seconde . . . ; fol. 518: sant royal et. . . . Explicit: fol. 518v: . . . grant foison de leurs biens.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Monk writing. 2. fol. 2v (I, 1) four parts: Coronation of Pharamond/ Foundation of Sicambria/ King and soldiers ride out of a city/ Battle of French and Romans. 3. fol. 12v (I, 20) two miniatures: Clovis defeats Alemanni (illustrates I, 18)/ Baptism of Clovis. 4. fol. 16v (II, 1) King Clovis and Queen Clotilda enthroned, their four sons seated at the left. 5. fol. 34 (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha while she sleeps. 6. fol. 57v (IV, 1) King Guntram receives messengers. 7. fol. 72v (V, 1) King Clotaire receives messengers. 8. fol. 98 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Einhard writing. 9. fol. 111 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) King Charlemagne condemns those who deposed the pope. 10. fol. 118 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Construction of architecture commissioned by Charlemagne. 11. fol. 128 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to the sleeping Emperor Charlemagne. 12. fol. 137 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Two groups of footsoldiers—the left has one king; the right, two kings. 13. fol. 145 (Louis the Pious, 1) King Charlemagne brings Louis to a bishop (sic ) to be crowned king of Aquitaine. 14. fol. 168v (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 15. fol. 182 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Knights riding. 16. fol. 195 (Lothaire, 1) Enthroned King Lothaire receives bishops. 17. fol. 205 (Philip I, 1) Hooded cleric brings noble child to Philip I. 18. fol. 215v (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 19. fol. 236 (Louis VII, 1) Louis receives homage of a young man (no textual source). 20. fol. 248v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Coronation (illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 3). 21. fol. 261v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Surrender of Tours or Le Mans to Philip. 22. fol. 278 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Enthroned and haloed bishop places hand on the head of a figure kneeling before him as clerics watch (Pope orders Amaury de Bene to cease heretical preaching?). 23. fol. 291 (Louis VIII, 1) Before an enthroned king, a young king (at the left), backed by bishops, points at a haloed bishop (at the right) who blesses a second bishop (no textual source). 24. fol. 295 (Saint Louis 1) Coronation (illustrates Saint Louis, 2). 25. fol. 330v (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, arrives at the deathbed of Louis IX. 26. fol. 349 (Philip IV, 1) Edward I of England pays homage to Philip. 27. fol. 374 (Louis X, 1) Coronation. 28. fol. 381 (Charles IV, 1) King Charles, enthroned at court, receives three men and a dog; the foremost man opens a box, which contains a second dog (no textual source). 29. fol. 392v (Philip of Valois, 1) Barons discuss the royal succession. 30. fol. 432v (John the Good, 1) Coronation of John the Good and Bonne of Luxembourg. 31. fol. 476v (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon.

STYLE: Three artists. I: fols. 16v, 34. II: fols. 1, 2v, 12v. III: fols. 57v, 72v, 98, 111, 118, 128, 137, 145, 168v, 182, 195, 205, 215v, 236, 248v, 261v, 278, 291, 295, 330v, 349, 374, 381, 392v, 432v, 476v.

REFERENCE: Omont, Catalogue général, Anciens fonds français . 1:435–36 no. 2604.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 2606
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–18(137)8; 19(145)12; 20(157)8–25(197)8; 26(205)8, there is a 206 bis; 27(212)8; 28(220)8; 29(228)13, 13th tipped; 30(241)12; 31(253)12; 32(265)8–37(305)8; 38(313)6; 39(319)8–45(367)8; 46(375)2; 47(377)1?; 48(378)8–52(410)8; 53(418)9, 1st tipped (?); 54(427)8–57(451)8; 58(459)8, there is a 460 bis; 59(466)8–62(490)8; 63(498)6, 6th excised. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Le proheme de l'aucteur qui translata. . . . T : Celui qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: que il ot fondemment . . . ; fol. 3: que ils furent moult . . . ; fol. 502: du roy notable. . . . Explicit: fol. 502v: . . . et emmencerent grant foison de.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 2 (I, 1) four parts: Ruler leaving city in formal procession/ Duke enthroned/ Clovis's battle with the Alemanni (angel appears with fleur-de-lis; Clovis bears shield with three toads) / Baptism of Clovis. 2. fol. 13v (II, 1) Clotilda divides realm among her four sons. 3. fol. 30 (III, 1) Chilperic leads French army against the Saxons. 4. fol. 51 (IV, 1) Battle, both armies are led by a king. 5. fol. 61 (IV, 20) Brunhilda brought before Clotaire II. 6. fol. 64 (V, 1) Stag hunted by King Dagobert and companions finds refuge in the church of Saint-Denis (illustrates V, 2). 7. fol. 87 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Charlemagne, already wearing imperial crown, is on horseback and meets the pope, who rides a mule, outside Rome (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. I, 7). 8. fol. 99v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Coronation of Charlemagne as emperor by Pope Leo III. 9. fol. 106v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne receives messages from the emperor of Constantinople (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. III, 5). 10. fol. 116 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Charlemagne and others watch Roland battle Ferragut (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 7). 11. fol. 122 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 8) Theological discussion between Roland and Ferragut. 12. fol. 125 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) At right, Charlemagne receives the messages from Ganelon; at left, Kings Marsile and Bagliant lean over the walls of a city. 13. fol. 133 (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Charlemagne has the pope crown Louis king of Aquitaine. 14. fol. 156v (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 15. fol. 170 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) French army at sea in four ships. 16. fol. 179 (Louis IV, 1) Duke William of Normandy and other barons supervise the coronation of Louis. 17. fol. 183v (Lothaire, 1) Coronation of Lothaire; Lothaire and his queen led into palace by a duke. 18. fol. 186v (Robert, 1) Marriage of Robert's son. 19. fol. 191 (Henry, 1) King and other nobles kneel before an altar with an elaborate reliquary on it (illustrates Henry, 4). 20. fol. 196v (Philip I, 1) William the Conqueror lands in England. 21. fol. 206v (Louis VI, 1) Pope (sic ) crowns Louis VI; at right, a monk gives the barons whatever they want to ensure that Louis's coronation takes place. 22. fol. 229 (Louis VII, 1) Louis VII marries Eleanor of Aquitaine (illustrates Louis VII, 2). 23. fol. 241 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Louis VII's Christological vision. 24. fol. 254 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Capture of Tours or Le Mans. 25. fol. 270 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Surrender of a city to Philip. 26. fol. 277 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 13) Battle of Bouvines: Philip Augustus fights Otto III, the Holy Roman Emperor. 27. fol. 282 (Louis VIII, 1) King and army besiege La Rochelle (illustrates Louis VIII, 2). 28. fol. 285v (Saint Louis, 1) Louis VIII establishes prelates in their churches. 29. fol. 312 (Saint Louis, 93) Battle in which Count Charles of Anjou (here king of France) captures Marsile. 30. fol. 319v (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, arrives at deathbed of Saint Louis outside Tunis. 31. fol. 337v (Philip IV, 1) Homage of Edward I of England before Philip IV. 32. fol. 361v (Louis X, 1) King points out hanged man to horsemen riding with him. 33. fol. 363 (Philip V, 1) Burning of lepers (illustrates Philip V, 7). 34. fol. 367v (Charles

IV, 1) Either homage of Louis, son of the count of Nevers (illustrates Charles IV, 4) or Queen Isabelle of England and her son, the future Edward III, visiting Isabelle's brother, Charles IV (illustrates Charles IV, 11). 35. fol. 379 (Philip of Valois, 1) Homage of Edward III of England to Philip (illustrates Philip of Valois, 6). 36. fol. 419 (John the Good, 1) Coronation of John the Good and Bonne of Luxembourg. 37. fol. 424v (John the Good, 19) Battle of Poitiers. 38. fol. 461v (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon. 39. fol. 502 (Charles VI, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: At least two artists. I (Second artist of B.N. fr. 823): fols. 2, 13v, 30, 51, 61, 84, 87, 99v, 106v, 116, 122, 125, 133, 156v, 170, 179, 183v, 186v, 191, 196v, 206v, 229v, 241, 254, 270, 277, 282, 285v, 312, 319v, 337v, 379, 419, 424v, 461v, 502. II (Principal artist of B.N. fr. 823): fols. 361v, 363, 367v.

REFERENCE: Omont, Catalogue général, Anciens fonds français , 1:436 no. 2606.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 2608
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)12–25(289)12; 26(301)12, there is a 304 bis; 27(312)12; 28(324)12; 29(336)12, bifolium (4th and 9th folios) misbound—should be reversed; 30(348)12–34(396)12; 35(408)12, bifolium (6th and 7th folios) misbound—should be reversed; 36(420)12; 37(432)12, there is a 432 bis; 38(443)12–45(527)12; 46(539)6. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Ce sont des croniques. . . . T: C'ils qui ceste . . . ; fol. 2: Le quint parole . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of chronicle): princes de Troye . . . ; fol. 4: la tene sespandment . . . ; fol. 543: ensuivant xi^e jour. . . . Explicit: fol. 543: . . . grant foison de biens.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Monk presents chronicle to Saints Louis and Denis. 2. fol. 2v (I, 1) four parts: Greeks landing in Troy/ Siege of Troy/ Coronation of Pharamond/ Battle of French and Romans. 3. fol. 4 (I, 4) Construction of the city of Paris. 4. fol. 6v (I, 10) King Chilperic tells Queen Basina of his three visions. 5. fol. 10 (I, 15) Coronation of Clovis. 6. fol. 13 (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 7. fol. 17 (II, 1) Four sons of Clovis enthroned. 8. fol. 26 (II, 14) Queen Clotilda prays in the Church of Saint-Martin at Tours. 9. fol. 36v (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha. 10. fol. 39v (III, 4) Murder of Sigebert. 11. fol. 50 (III, 14) Bishops contradict King Chilperic's heresy. 12. fol. 61 (IV, 1) At right, a young and an old king enthroned; the younger king points to the head of the older king, who offers a crown to an old king kneeling before him. At the left, two other kings watch (should be King Guntram designates his nephew, Childebert, as his heir). 13. fol. 73v (IV, 20) Torture of Queen Brunhilda. 14. fol. 77 (V, 1) Surrender of Saxons to Clotaire II. 15. fol. 81v (V, 6) Clotaire II kills Duke Bertold. 16. fol. 86v (V, 12) King (sic ) Heraclius battles Saracen. 17. fol. 93 (V, 19) At right, the hermit John tells the archbishop of Poitiers of his vision; at left, the vision: Dagobert tormented by devils in a boat. 18. fol. 98 (V, 25) Charles Martel escapes from prison. 19. fol. 99v (V, 26) Charles Martel battles Saracens. 20. fol. 105 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Emperor Charlemagne enthroned; holds sword and orb (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1). 21. fol. 117 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 12) Charlemagne's son, King Pepin, defeats the king of the Huns. 22. fol. 119v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Emperor Charlemagne, enthroned with Pope Leo III, judges those who had tortured the pope. 23. fol. 124 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 5) Surrender of messengers from Saragossa. 24. fol. 127v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne supervises construction. 25. fol. 138 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to sleeping Emperor Charlemagne and shows him the starry sky. 26. fol. 147v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Emperor Charlemagne receives gifts sent by the Saracens. 27. fol. 155v (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Louis enthroned, holding orb and scepter. 28. fol. 180 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 29. fol. 207v (Lothaire, 1) King Lothaire enthroned. 30. fol. 210v (Hugh Capet, 1) Coronation. 31. fol. 214v (Henry, 1) Queen Constance and one of her sons at King Robert's deathbed. 32. fol. 230v (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 33. fol. 237 (Louis VI, 8) King Louis battles Count

Thibault. 34. fol. 265 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) While Alix sleeps, Louis VII kisses the infant Philip, and a midwife prepares his bath. 35. fol. 271 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 12) Philip receives a messenger from the Eastern emperor. 36. fol. 274 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 18) Philip speaks with the abbot and monks of Saint-Denis. 37. fol. 279 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Capture of Le Mans or Tours. 38. fol. 282 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 5) Philip Augustus and army load into ships (departure for Acre?). 39. fol. 288 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 14) Capture of the chateau of Aumale. 40. fol. 295v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Amaury de Bene preaching. 41. fol. 301v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 10) Battle of Bouvines. 42. fol. 304 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 14) Philip Augustus's battle with Count Ferrand. 43. fol. 308 (Louis VIII, 1) Louis VIII reads message brought by a messenger. 44. fol. 311v (Saint Louis, 1) Nimbed Louis IX enthroned, holding fleur-de-lis scepter in a cloth-draped hand; angels hover above. 45. fol. 318 (Saint Louis, 23) Count Thibault crowned king of Navarre. 46. fol. 325 (Saint Louis, 43) Coronation (no textual source). 47. fol. 331 (Saint Louis, 59) Louis IX sails from Egypt. 48. fol. 337 (Saint Louis, 77) Nimbed Louis IX washes the feet of the poor. 49. fol. 339 (Saint Louis, 98) Battle of Henry of Castile and Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, who wears fleur-de-lis. 50. fol. 341 (Saint Louis, 91) Charles of Anjou engages a ship to take him to Rome for his coronation. 51. fol. 346 (Saint Louis, 105) Nimbed Louis IX and army enter ships to go on crusade. 52. fol. 349v (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, disembarks at Tunis and receives message of Louis's death. 53. fol. 352 (Philip III, 7) Kings of France and Tunis make peace. 54. fol. 355v (Philip III, 15) Coronation of Philip III. 55. fol. 363v (Philip III, 35) A king and nobles watch Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, seek support of pope against the king of Aragon. 56. fol. 367v (Philip IV, 1) Edward I pays homage to Philip. 57. fol. 369v (Philip IV, 6) Capture of Acre by the sultan of Babylon. 58. fol. 375 (Philip IV, 25) Philip IV and others carry the coffin of Saint Louis on their shoulders. 59. fol. 377v (Philip IV, 42) Battle of Courtrai. 60. fol. 379v (Philip IV, 47) Battle of Saint-Omer. 61. fol. 381 (Philip IV, 54) Battle between a monk and the devil. 62. fol. 382v (Philip IV, 57) Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle. 63. fol. 390 (Philip IV, 69) Henry, the Holy Roman Emperor, receives communion. 64. fol. 395 (Philip V, 1) Coronation. 65. fol. 400 (Charles IV, 1) Marriage of Charles IV and Maria of Bohemia. 66. fol. 449v (John the Good, 1) King John watches bishop crown Jeanne of Burgundy queen. 67. fol. 454 (John the Good, 16) Charles, king of Navarre, is brought before King John as a prisoner; rebellious Normans are executed. 68. fol. 455v (John the Good, 19) Battle of Poitiers. 69. fol. 466v (John the Good, 58) At left, King (sic ) Charles accepts a hood with Étienne Marcel's colors (red and blue); at right, Marcel's men kill the marshals of Clermont and Champagne. 70. fol. 473 (John the Good, 83) King (sic ) Charles and Charles, king of Navarre, swear a truce. 71. fol. 475v (John the Good, 89) Death of the provost of merchants. 72. fol. 481v (John the Good, 119) English king and his forces fight the French outside Reims. 73. fol. 483v (John the Good, 124) Treaty of Brétigny. 74. fol. 495v (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon. 75. fol. 503 (Charles V, 16) Baptism of Charles VI. 76. fol. 521v (Charles V, 47) Coronation of Richard II of England.

STYLE: At least two artists. Bohemian style, from the time of King Wenceslaus. I: fols. 4, 13, 77, 98, 99v, 105, 117, 119v, 138, 279, 282, 288, 295v, 301v, 304, 308, 311v, 318, 325, 331(?), 337, 339, 341, 346, 349v, 352, 355v, 363v, 367v, 369v, 375, 377v, 379v, 381, 382v, 390, 395v, 400, 449v, 454, 455v, 466v, 473(?), 475v, 481v(?), 483v, 495v, 503, 521v. II: fols. 1, 2v, 6v, 10, 17, 26, 36v, 39v, 50, 61, 73v, 81, 86v, 93, 124(?), 127v(?), 147v, 155v(?), 180, 207v, 210v, 214v, 230v, 237(?), 265, 271, 274(?).

PROVENANCE: Charles VI was the first owner. On fol. 1, his emblems, two winged stags with crowns around their necks, hold a crowned shield of france moderne . The manuscript passed into the collection of John of Berry, who inscribed it on fol. 543: "Ce livre est au duc de Berry. Jehan." Later the manuscript was in the collection of Jean du Mas, Seigneur de l'Isle (died 1495) who added his arms (d'or à la fasce de gueules, accompagnée de trois besants

d'azure ) and his badge (a pilgrim staff and pouch) on fol. 2v. Meiss mistakenly identified these as the arms of Aimeri de Rochechouart.

REFERENCES: Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Late Fourteenth Century (London, 1969), 314, 400 n. 30; Omont, Catalogue général, Anciens fonds français , 1:436 no. 2608; Marcel Thomas, The Golden Age: Manuscript Painting at the Time of John, Duke of Berry (New York, 1979), 73, pl. 17; Unpublished notes, Section Codicologique, Institut de Recherches et d'Histoire des Textes, Paris.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 2613–14
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: original foliation in brackets. Vol. I: 1(1)8–30(233)8; 31(241)5; 32(246)8; 33(254)6. Vol. II: 1(1[259])8–30(233[491])8. Incipits: Vol. I: fol. 1: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: les Romains . . . ; fol. 3: R: Le premier chapitre. . . . T: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 4 (second folio of chronicle): moult fut liez . . . ; fol. 258: complier son. . . . Vol. II: fol. 278: franc et environ. . . . Explicit: Vol. II: fol. 278v: . . . et orent agreable.

MINIATURES: Only those on fol. 3 were completed; the rest are blank. 1. fol. 3 (I, 1) four parts: Trojans work in and around their city/ Greeks land at Troy/ Battle between Greeks and Trojans and destruction of Troy/ Greeks found a new settlement. 2. fol. 16 (II, 1) blank. 3. fol. 33v (III, 1) blank. 4. fol. 56v (IV, 1) blank. 5. fol. 71 (V, 1) blank. 6. fol. 96v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) blank. 7. fol. 110 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) blank. 8. fol. 117v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) blank. 9. fol. 127v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) blank. 10. fol. 137v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) blank. 11. fol. 145v (Louis the Pious, 1) blank. 12. fol. 170 (Charles the Bald, 1) blank. 13. fol. 184v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) blank. 14. fol. 198 (Lothaire, 1) blank. 15. fol. 201v (Robert, 1) blank. 16. fol. 206 (Henry, 1) blank. 17. fol. 211 (Philip I, 1) blank. 18. fol. 223 (Louis VI, 1) blank. 19. fol. 246 (Louis VII, 1) blank. Vol. II: 20. fol. 259 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) blank. 21. fol. 299v (Louis VIII, 1) blank. 22. fol. 303v (Saint Louis, 1) blank. 23. fol. 340 (Philip III, 1) blank. 24. fol. 361 (Philip IV, 1) blank. 25. fol. 388v (Louis X, 1) blank. 26. fol. 390v (Philip V, 1) blank. 27. fol. 396 (Charles IV, 1) blank. 28. fol. 407v (Philip of Valois, 1) blank. 29. fol. 448v (John the Good, 1) blank. 30. fol. 494v (Charles V, 1) blank.

PROVENANCE: On fol. 3, four shields fill the intercolumnar margin. The second and fourth are arms borne by a branch of the Chatillon family—their regular arms (de gueules a trois pals de vair au chef d'or ) with a small shield at the top containing the arms of Birenne (d'azur semé de billettes d'or au lion d'or brochant sur le tout ). The first and third shields show these arms impaled with the arms (trois aigles d'or azure bec et serrés de gueules ) of Frederic Linange, who married Marie of Blois, daughter of Guy de Chatillon, count of Blois, in 1347. (Heraldic research conducted by Mme. Hélène Loyau, Section Codicologique, Institut de la Recherches et de l'Histoire des Textes, Paris.)

REFERENCE: Omont, Catalogue général, Anciens fonds français , 1:436 no. 2613–14.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 2615
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins through the life of Philip III(?), continued through the life of Philip V, then through 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–23(177)8; 24(185)8, 1st lacks; 25(193)8–32(249)8; 33(257)8, 6th lacks; 34(265)8–40(313)8; 41(321)10; 42(331)4, 1st lacks; 43(334)8–46(358)8; 47(366)6; 48(372)8–50(388)8; 51(396)4, 1st excised; 52(399)8; 53(407)8; 54(415)10; 55(425)2, 2nd excised. Incipits: fol. 1: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: a la pucelle . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of text): la fourmenz mouteplies . . . ; fol. 261 (possible first ending): aider et si ne. . . . Second ending gone (end of life of Philip V); fol. 425: En l'an. . . . Explicit: fol. 261v (possible first explicit): T:  . . . sans la dispencasion de son evesque soverain. (Later added: la maniere que je vous ai

dit dessus. R: Ci fini l'istoire de phe. filz s. loys.); fol. 425v: T: orent agreable. R: Cy fini l'ystoire du roi Charles le cinquiesme. Cy apres parle du couronnement Charles le sisimesime et de K.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Abbot dictates to two monks. 2. fol. 3 (I, 4+) Coronation of Pharamond. 3. fol. 3v (I, 5+) Coronation of Clodio. 4. fol. 4 (I, 6) Coronation of Meroveus. 5. fol. 4v (I, 7) Coronation of Childeric. 6. fol. 7v (I, 15+) Coronation of Clovis. 7. fol. 9v (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 8. fol. 12v (II, 1) King Childebert receives acclamation of three bishops and three noblemen (his brothers?). 9. fol. 21v (II, 18+) King Clotaire enthroned; two nobles and two bishops in attendance. 10. fol. 24 (II, 23+) Coronation of Caribert; crown supported by three bishops and three nobles (his brothers?). 11. fol. 28 (III, 5) King enthroned. 12. fol. 39 (III, 20) Queen Fredegunda holds her son and sits by her brother-in-law, King Guntram; barons pay homage to the child. 13. fol. 40 (III, 22) Guntram, enthroned, receives two messengers. 14. fol. 46v (IV, 8+) Battle: Fredegunda holding her second son, Clotaire, rides with knights against the army of Childebert. 15. fol. 48 (IV, 11+) Battle between the forces of Kings Theodebert and Theoderic and those of King Clotaire II. 16. fol. 56 (V, 5) Clotaire II crowns Dagobert king of Austrasia. 17. fol. 58v (V, 9+) Coronation of Dagobert as king of France. 18. fol. 66 (V, 20) Coronation of Clovis II. 19. fol. 67v (V, 23+) Coronation of Clotaire. 20. fol. 67v (V, 23++) Coronation of Theoderic. 21. fol. 68 (V, 23+++) Coronation of Childeric. 22. fol. 69 (V, 24+) Coronation of Clovis III. 23. fol. 69 (V, 24++) Coronation of Childebert. 24. fol. 69v (V, 24+++) Coronation of Dagobert. 25. fol. 70 (V, 25+) Coronation of Chilperic II. 26. fol. 70v (V, 25++) Coronation of Thierry IV; Charles Martel present, among others. 27. fol. 72 (V, 27+) Charles Martel gives his realm to his sons Pepin and Carloman, who are enthroned with him. 28. fol. 72 (V, 28) Surrender of Grifon's army to that of his brothers, Pepin and Carloman. 29. fol. 72v (V, 28+) Pope Stephen crowns Pepin. 30. fol. 74v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, ch. list) Bishop crowns the two sons of Pepin, Charlemagne and Carloman. 31. fol. 79v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 7+) Charlemagne supervises the pope as he crowns Charlemagne's two sons, Pepin and Louis. 32. fol. 85v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Charlemagne crowned by nobles and clergy. 33. fol. 90v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 7) Charlemagne crowns Louis emperor. 34. fol. 115v (Louis the Pious. 7+) Charlemagne crowns Louis emperor. 35. fol. 124 (Louis the Pious, 19+) Nobles and bishops reinvest Louis with imperial regalia. 36. fol. 126 (Louis the Pious, 22+) Emperor Louis the Pious and bishops crown Charles king of Neustria. 37. fol. 133 (Charles the Bald, 8+) Pope crowns Charles emperor. 38. fol. 137v (Louis the Stammerer, 1+) Coronation of Louis as king. 39. fol. 139 (Louis the Stammerer, 5+) Coronation of Boson and Charles. 40. fol. 140v (Louis the Stammerer, 7+) Coronation of Louis III. 41. fol. 141 (Louis the Stammerer, 7++) Coronation of Odo Capet. 42. fol. 141 (Louis the Stammerer, 7+++) Coronation of Charles the Simple. 43. fol. 143 (Raoul, 1+) Coronation of Raoul. 44. fol. 143v (Louis IV, 1) Coronation of Louis IV. 45. fol. 146v (Lothaire, 1) Coronation of Lothaire. 46. fol. 148 (Louis V, 1) Coronation of Louis V. 47. fol. 148v (Hugh Capet, 1) Coronation of Hugh Capet. 48. fol. 149 (Robert, 1) Coronation of Robert. 49. fol. 151v (Henry, 1) Coronation of Henry. 50. fol. 154v (Philip I, 1) Coronation of Philip. 51. fol. 161 (Louis VI, 1) Coronation of Louis. 52. fol. 173 (Louis VI, 23+) Coronation of Louis VII by pope. 53. folio lacks after fol. 184 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 3) offset. 54. fol. 214v (Louis VIII, 1+) Coronation of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile by bishops and nobles; John of Brienne, king of Jerusalem, is present.

The following illustrates a second translation of Guillaume of Nangis's life of Saint Louis, which appears in B.N. fr. 2615, Cambrai, B.M. 682, and B.L. Royal 16 G VI. Chapter numbers given here correspond to the edition of the text in Grandes Chroniques , ed. Viard, vol. 10. 55. fol. 217 (Saint Louis, 1) Coronation of Louis IX; a king not required by the text is present.

The following texts correspond to those in the critical edition. 56. fol. 252 (Philip III, 15) Coronation of Philip. 57. folio lacks after fol. 262 (Philip IV, 1). 58. fol. 279 (Louis X, 1) Coronation of Louis. 59. fol. 280v (Philip V, 1) Coronation of Philip by bishops; at right, sergeants-at-arms; at left, sergeant-at-arms with hand on the shoulder of a crowned child, John the "Postume." 60. fol. 284 (Charles IV, 1) King, queen, and nobles outside a town. 61. fol. 295 (Philip of Valois, 1) Barons discuss the royal succession. 62. fol. 334 (John the Good, 1) Coronation of John. 63. fol. 347 (John the Good, 43) Bishops counsel the regent, Charles, to yield to the requests of Charles, king of Navarre. 64. fol. 355v (John the Good, 77) The French defeat the rebel army of the Jacquerie. 65. fol. 364 (John the Good, 114) Charles the Bad, king of Navarre, speaks before the council of the regent, Charles. 66. fol. 367v (John the Good, 124) Dictation of the Treaty of Brétigny to a scribe. 67. fol. 382v (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon. 68. fol. 399 (Charles V, 21) Marriage of Philip, duke of Burgundy, and Margaret of Flanders; Philip wears a robe strewn with p s and marguerites .

STYLE: Nine different artists. I (The Royal Master): gatherings 1–8, 12, 15, 28(?). II (The Royal Master [?]): gatherings 21, 22. III (Master of the Roman de Fauvel [Geoffroy de Saint-Léger?]): gathering 35. IV (Painter D of the Vie de Saint Denis , The Sisinnius Master): gathering 32. V: gatherings 9–11, 19, 20. VI: gatherings 16–18. VII: gathering 16. VIII: Repainted faces on fol. 79v (gathering 10). IX: gatherings 36, 37, 43–47, 49, 52.

REFERENCES: Charlotte Lacaze, The "Vie de Saint Denis" Manuscript (New York, 1979), 237–39; Carla Lord, "Three Manuscripts of the Ovide Moralisée," Art Bulletin 57 (1975): 161–75; Omont, Catalogue général, Anciens fonds français , 1:436 no. 2615; Joan Diamond Udovitch, "The Papeleu Master: A Parisian Manuscript Illuminator of the Early Fourteenth Century" (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1979) 2 vols.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 2616–20
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: Original foliation (Roman numerals) is used here; it continues throughout the four volumes B.N. fr. 2616: 1(1)2; 2(3)6; 3(9)8–10(65)8; 11(73)4; 12(77)8; 13(85)4. B.N. fr. 2617: 1(89)4; 2(93)8–9(149)8. B.N. fr. 2618: 1(157)8–11(237)8; 12(245)2, two single leaves. B.N. fr. 2619: 1(247)8, 1st and 2nd excised (bound in previous volume); 2(253)10, 10th excised; 3(262)8–14(350)8; 15(358)2; 16(360)10, 4th, 8th, and 9th excised; 17(368)10, 7th excised; 18(401)8; 19(409)1. B.N. fr. 2620: 1(410)4, 1st excised (bound in previous volume); 2(413)8–5(437)8; 6(445)10; 7(455)8–10(479)8; 11(487)4. Incipits: fol. 1: C'il que ceste euvre commence . . . ; fol. 2: derechief theodore . . . ; fol. 3: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 4 (second folio of text): damement se ferirent . . . ; fol. 490 sur ce ilz eussent. . . . Explicit: fol. 490: . . . et emmenerent grant foison de.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 3 (I, 1) four parts: Ruler leaving city in formal procession/ Duke enthroned/ Battle between two armies/ Coronation of Pharamond(?). 2. fol. 15 (II, 1) Four sons of Clovis enthroned. 3. fol. 31 (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles sleeping Queen Galswintha with a scarf. 4. fol. 52 (IV, 1) King Guntram sits up in bed, extends hand to his heir, King Childebert. 5. fol. 65v (V, 1) Dagobert cuts the beard of his teacher (illustrates V, 3). 6. fol. 81 (V, 22) Clovis II loses his senses because he took one of the bones from the reliquary of Saint Denis. 7. fol. 91v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 6) Coronation (?) (no relation to text). 8. fol. 101v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome. 9. fol. 108 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne sits in judgment of his son, Pepin, who wears a robe strewn with p s. 10. fol. 114 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 8) Emperor Charlemagne prays before relics (the Crown of Thorns and nails). 11. fol. 115v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 10) Emperor Charlemagne takes leave of the emperor of Constantinople. 12. fol. 118 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to the sleeping

Emperor Charlemagne. 13. fol. 123v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 7) Charlemagne and armies watch Roland fight Ferragut (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 8). 14. fol. 135v (Louis the Pious, 1) Coronation. 15. fol. 145 (Louis the Pious, 13) Pope Pascal crowns Lothaire as Holy Roman Emperor. 16. fol. 157v (Charles the Bald, 1) King receives cardinals and nobles. 17. fol. 169v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Empress Richilda gives Louis a sword and main-de-justice . 18. fol. 172v (Louis the Stammerer, 5) Coronation of Louis's sons, Charles and Boson. 19. fol. 181 (Lothaire, 1) Lothaire's expedition against Emperor Otto (illustrates Lothaire, 3). 20. fol. 183v (Robert, 1) City surrenders to Robert. 21. fol. 191 (Philip I, 1) Battle. 22. fol. 201 (Louis VI, 1) Siege of a city. 23. fol. 221v (Louis VII, 1) Surrender of a city (no textual source). 24. fol. 234 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Louis VII prays for an heir before an altar. 25. fol. 247 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Battle. 26. fol. 262v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Philip supervises the burning of heretics. 27. fol. 274 (Louis VIII, 1) Saint Valery appears to Hugh Capet. 28. fol. 278 (Saint Louis, 1) Coronation. 29. fol. 312v (Philip III, 1) Battle. 30. fol. 330v (Philip IV, 1) Homage of Edward of England to Philip. 31. fol. 357 (Philip V, 1) Coronation. 32. fol. 362v (Charles IV, 1) Wedding of Charles IV and Maria of Bohemia. 33. fol. 373v (Philip of Valois, ch. list) Coronation. 34. fol. 413 (John the Good, 1) Coronation. 35. fol. 452v (Charles V, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: Three artists. I (Second artist of B.N. fr. 823): fols. 3, 15, 31, 52, 65v, 101v, 108, 114, 115v, 118, 123v, 135v. II: fols. 81, 91v, 181, 183v, 191, 201, 221v, 234, 247, 262v, 274, 278, 312v, 330v, 357, 362v, 373v, 413, 452. III (Follower of the Virgil Master): fols. 145, 157v, 169v, 172v.

REFERENCE: Omont, Catalogue général, Anciens fonds français , 1:436 nos. 2616–20.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 2813
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1350, continued to 1375, and then to 1379)

COLLATION: See Hedeman, "Valois Legitimacy," 110–15. Incipits: Former vol. I: fol. 1: R: Ce sont les croniques. . . . T: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: Le xix comment et par . . . ; fol. 3 no text; fol. 4: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 5 (second folio of chronicle): de tout le monde . . . ; fol. 263: sa terre et. . . . Former vol. II: fol. 265: no text; fol. 266: le xl du miracle . . . ; fol. 267: il vint pres . . . ; fol. 492: il nomma lois . . . Explicits: Former vol. I: fol. 263v: . . . son pere le bon roy philippe. Former vol. II: fol. 492: . . . et sur la vraye croix.

MINIATURES: 1: fol. 3v (Facing I, 1) Full-page miniature: Coronation. 2. fol. 4 (I, 1) four parts: Greeks landing in Troy/ Siege of Troy/ Founding of Sicambria/ French defeat Romans. 3. fol. 5v (I, 4) Founding of Paris. 4. fol. 7v (I, 10) King Childeric's three visions. 5. fol. 10 (I, 15) King Clovis slays the rash knight. 6. fol. 12v (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 7. fol. 15v (II, 1) Four sons of Clovis enthroned. 8. fol. 23 (II, 14) Clotilda prays in the Church of Saint-Martin at Tours. 9. fol. 31 (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles his sleeping wife, Queen Galswintha, with a scarf. 10. fol. 33v (III, 4) Murder of Sigebert. 11. fol. 41v (III, 14) Bishop contradicts Chilperic's heresy. 12. fol. 50v (IV, 1) King Guntram designates his nephew, King Childebert, as his heir. 13. fol. 60v (IV, 20) Torture of Queen Brunhilda. 14. fol. 63 (V, 1) King Clotaire battles the Lombards. 15. fol. 66v (V, 6) King Clotaire kills Duke Bertoald. 16. fol. 70v (V, 12) Emperor Heraclius, a Saracen ruler, and their armies battle on a bridge. 17. fol. 76 (V, 19) John, a hermit, tells the bishop of Poitiers of his vision. 18. fol. 80 (V, 25) Charles Martel receives a messenger. 19. fol. 81 (V, 26) Charles Martel (here a king) defeats Saracens. 20. fol. 85v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) two miniatures: Einhard writing/ Coronation of Charlemagne. 21. fol. 90v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 7) Charlemagne supervises the coronation by the pope of his sons, Pepin and Louis. 22. fol. 95v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 13) Romans gouge out eyes and cut tongue of Pope Leo. 23. fol. 97 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor. 24. fol. 102 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 7) Council of bishops dispute dogma in Charlemagne's presence. 25. fol. 103v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne enthroned with globe and scepter.

26. fol. 105v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 4) Eastern emperor dispatches a bishop with a letter. 27. fol. 106v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 5) The messenger from the Eastern emperor arrives before Charlemagne. 28. fol. 108 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 7) Charlemagne and Eastern emperor kneel before the Crown of Thorns. 29. fol. 109v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 9) A bishop carries the saint clou to Emperor Charlemagne. 30. fol. 112v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to sleeping Emperor Charlemagne. 31. fol. 114v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 3+) Battle against Saracens. 32. fol. 115v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 5) Disputation between King Agolant and King (sic ) Charlemagne. 33. fol. 116v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 6) King (sic ) Charlemagne routs the Saracens. 34. fol. 118 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 8) Battle between Roland and Ferragut. 35. fol. 119 (Charlemagne, Bk IV, 9) Saracens attempt to frighten the French knights' horses. 36. fol. 121 (Charlemagne, Bk V, 1) two miniatures: Emperor Charlemagne receives presents from the Saracen kings/ Battle of Roncevaux. 37. fol. 122 v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 3) Nimbed Roland, lying on the battlefield, makes his confession and angels bear away his soul. 38. fol. 123v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 4) Archbishop Turpin's vision of King Marsile in hell. 39. fol. 124 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 5) two miniatures: Battle of footsoldiers/ Execution of Ganelon. 40. fol. 128 (Louis the Pious, 1) two miniatures: Emperor Charlemagne supervises the coronation of his son Louis as king of Aquitaine by the pope/ Louis with his advisors. 41. fol. 132v (Louis the Pious, 8) Emperor Louis receives a message from the emperor of Constantinople. 42. fol. 136v (Louis the Pious, 12) Pope crowns Michael as emperor of Constantinople. 43. fol. 139 (Louis the Pious, 15) King (sic ) Louis enthroned with nobles and bishops. 44. fol. 140v (Louis the Pious, 17) Emperor Louis chastises his son Pepin. 45. fol. 142 (Louis the Pious, 18) Emperor Louis, imprisoned at Soissons, leans out of a tower to hook the sword from the belt of one of his sleeping guards. 46. fol. 148 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 47. fol. 149 (Charles the Bald, 2) King Charles, enthroned with his queen, receives messengers. 48. fol. 150v (Charles the Bald, 4) Messengers swear upon a Bible to keep conventions. 49. fol. 152v (Charles the Bald, 6) Charles receives messengers. 50. fol. 154v (Charles the Bald, 8) Pope crowns Charles emperor at Rome. 51. fol. 156 (Charles the Bald, 10) Charles defeats his nephew Louis, king of Germany. 52. fol. 160 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Empress Richilda presents two swords (sic ) to Louis. 53. fol. 161 (Louis the Stammerer, 2) Pope dines with King Louis. 54. fol. 161v (Louis the Stammerer, 3) Peace between King Louis of France and King Louis of Germany. 55. fol. 164 (Louis the Stammerer, 6) Carloman receives messengers. 56. fol. 165 (Charles the Simple, 1) The Normans disembark. 57. fol. 166v (Charles the Simple, 2+) Baptism of Rollo. 58. fol. 168 (Louis IV, 1) Coronation. 59. fol. 169 (Louis IV, 2+) Arnoul, count of Flanders, and his henchmen. 60. fol. 171v (Lothaire, 1) Coronation. 61. fol. 173v (Louis V, 1) HI: Louis receives a messenger. 62. fol. 173v (Charles, 1) HI: Charles receives a messenger. 63. fol. 174 (Robert, 1) Robert beseiges Melun. 64. fol. 177 (Henry, 1) Henry and his army confront his mother and her forces. 65. fol. 179v (Henry, 6) The chief of the Norman soldiers throws a lion over the walls of the palace. 66. fol. 182 (Philip I, 1) Philip enthroned with his queen and children. 67. fol. 187 (Philip I, 10) Pope Pascal in council with Philip. 68. fol. 191v (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 69. fol. 194 (Louis VI, 4) A lord is murdered in his castle. 70. fol. 195v (Louis VI, 6) Hugh du Puisat complains to the king. 71. fol. 200 (Louis VI, 12) Traitors are hanged. 72. fol. 201v (Louis VI, 14) Louis VI in battle. 73. fol. 202v (Louis VI, 15) King kneels before the pope, who took refuge in France. 74. fol. 206v (Louis VI, 20) Murder of Charles, count of Flanders, in church at Bruges. 75. fol. 208 (Louis VI, 22) Cardinals and bishops discuss. 76. fol. 211 (Louis VII, 1) Coronation. 77. fol. 212v (Louis VII, 3) The Holy Roman Emperor, the French king, and others ride off on crusade. 78. fol. 216v (Louis VII, 13) Louis receives a messenger. 79. fol. 221 (Louis VII, 26) Battle between Louis VII and the duke of Clermont. 80. fol. 223 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) two miniatures: Louis VII's Christological vision/ Louis VII and Queen Alix pray before an altar with a crucifix; Louis holds up a diminutive Philip Dieudonné . 81. fol. 223v (Philip

Augustus, Bk. I, 3) Coronation. 82. fol. 227v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 12) Philip receives messengers from the Holy Land. 83. fol. 230 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 18) Philip visits with the monks at Saint-Denis. 84. fol. 234v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Capture of Le Mans or Tours. 85. fol. 237 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 5) Siege of Acre. 86. fol. 238v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 7) Surrender of Acre. 87. fol. 242 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 14) Philip routs King Richard of England and his army. 88. fol. 245v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 21) Barons capture Constantinople. 89. fol. 248v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Amaury de Bene preaches heresy. 90. fol. 252v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 8) Albigensian Crusade. 91. fol. 253v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 10) Battle of Bouvines. 92. fol. 256 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 14) Victorious army rides away. 93. fol. 258v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 20) Philip returns to Paris. 94. fol. 260v (after the life of Philip Augustus, before presentation poem) Monk presents book to king. 95. fol. 261 (Louis VIII, 1) Saint Valery appears to Hugh Capet. 96. fol. 265 (folio before the ch. list for the life of Saint Louis) FPM (six scenes): Birth of Louis IX/ Education of Louis IX/ Louis IX feeds the leper monk at Royaumont/ Louis IX washes the feet of the poor/ Louis IX buries the crusaders' bones at Sidon/ Louis IX whipped by his confessor. 97. fol. 265v (ch. list, life of Saint Louis) Monk writing. 98. fol. 266v (Saint Louis, 1) two miniatures: Surrender of Avignon/ Coronation of Louis IX (illustrates Saint Louis, 2). 99. fol. 269v (Saint Louis, 10) Death of Saint Isabel, daughter of the king of Hungary. 100. fol. 274v (Saint Louis, 31) Battle of the French and English. 101. fol. 277 (Saint Louis, 38) Louis IX visits the Pope. 102. fol. 278v (Saint Louis, 44) King of Cyprus receives John of Brienne's letter. 103. fol. 281 (Saint Louis, 52) Siege of Damietta. 104. fol. 285v (Saint Louis, 69) Nimbed Louis IX sails back to France with his troops. 105. fol. 288v (Saint Louis, 77) Louis IX washes the feet of the poor. 106. fol. 290 (Saint Louis, 84) Henry III of England pays homage to Louis IX. 107. fol. 294 (Saint Louis, 91) Charles of Anjou is crowned king of Sicily. 108. fol. 295 (Saint Louis, 93) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, defeats King Manfred. 109. fol. 296v (Saint Louis, 98) Battle of Henry of Castile and Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily. 110. fol. 298v (Saint Louis, 105) King and army set sail. 111. fol. 299v (Saint Louis, 110) Capture of Carthage. 112. fol. 302 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, at the deathbed of Louis IX. 113. fol. 304 (Philip III, 7) Meeting of kings of Tunis and France. 114. fol. 307 (Philip III, 15) Coronation of Philip. 115. fol. 313v (Philip III, 31) Pope and cardinals meet with Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily (wears French arms). 116. fol. 318 (Philip IV, 1) Edward I of England pays homage to Philip. 117. fol. 324 (Philip IV, 25) Philip supervises the translation of the relics of Saint Louis. 118. fol. 326 (Philip IV, 42) Battle of Courtrai. 119. fol. 328 (Philip IV, 47) Battle of Saint-Omer. 120. fol. 329 (Philip IV, 54) A monk battles the devil. 121. fol. 330v (Philip IV, 57) Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle. 122. fol. 339 (Louis X, 1) Coronation. 123. fol. 340v (Philip V, 1) Coronation. 124. fol. 344 (Charles IV, 1) Marriage of Charles IV and Maria of Bohemia. 125. fol. 350 (Charles IV, 13) Queen Isabelle of England takes leave of her brother, Charles IV. 126. fol. 353v (Philip of Valois, 1) Coronation. 127. fol. 355v (Philip of Valois, 5) Battle with the Flemish. 128. fol. 357 (Philip of Valois, 6) Edward III of England prepares to pay homage to Philip of Valois. 129. fol. 357v (Philip of Valois, 6+) two-column miniature: Edward III of England pays homage to Philip of Valois. 130. fol. 368 (Philip of Valois, 19) Naval battle between French and English. 131. fol. 385v (Philip of Valois, 42) Siege of La Roche Derain. 132. fol. 393 (John the Good, 1) Coronation. 133. fol. 394 (John the Good, 3+) two-thirds of a page: Meeting of the Order of the Star/ Feast of the Order of the Star. 134. fol. 395 (John the Good, 6) King John pardons Charles, king of Navarre. 135. fol. 397 (John the Good, 14) John meets with the Third Estate. 136. fol. 398 (John the Good, 16) King John supervises the execution of rebellious Normans. 137. fol. 399 (John the Good, 19) Battle of Poitiers. 138. fol. 399 bis (John the Good, 20) two miniatures: The dauphin meets with the Estates General/ Footsoldiers. 139. fol. 401 (John the Good, 23) Robert of Clermont defeats forces of Philip of Navarre in Normandy. 140. fol. 402v (John the Good, 31) Robert le Coq, Bishop of

Laon, preaches in parlement. 141. fol. 404v (John the Good, 37) Charles, dauphin of France, speaks to the provost of merchants. 142. fol. 405v (John the Good, 40) Charles, king of Navarre, speaks to clerics. 143. fol. 407 (John the Good, 49) Charles, king of Navarre, speaks to the Parisians at the markets. 144. fol. 409v (John the Good, 58) two miniatures: Sergeants-at-arms of Étienne Marcel/ Étienne's soldiers murder the Marshals of Clermont and Champagne in the presence of the dauphin, Charles, who accepts a hood with Étienne Marcel's colors (red and blue). 145. fol. 414 (John the Good, 74) Beginning of the Jacquerie. 146. fol. 414v (John the Good, 77) Defeat of the Parisian forces at Meaux. 147. fol. 415 (John the Good, 79) Charles, king of Navarre, preaches in the town hall. 148. fol. 416 (John the Good, 83) The regent, Charles, and Charles, king of Navarre, swear a truce. 149. fol. 417 (John the Good, 86) Battle between the armies of the regent and of Paris. 150. 436v (John the Good, 136) King John's entry into Paris. 151. fol. 438 (John the Good, 138) two-column miniature: John the Good returns to London. 152. fol. 439 (Charles V, 1) two miniatures: Peers support the crown at the coronation of Charles V/ Peers support the crown at the coronation of Jeanne of Bourbon. 153. fol. 439v (Charles V, 4) Burgos surrenders to Bertrand du Guesclin. 154. fol. 442 (Charles V, 10) Residents of Viterbo maltreat pope's men. 155. fol. 446v (Charles V, 16) two-column miniature: Baptismal procession for Charles VI. 156. fol. 447 (Charles V, 17) Charles supervises the execution of King Peter of Spain. 157. fol. 460v (Charles V, 34) Charles, king of Navarre, pays homage to Charles V. 158. fol. 467 (Charles V, 52) Charles V receives letter from Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, announcing his visit. 159. fol. 467v (Charles V, 53) Entry of Emperor Charles IV and his son Wenceslaus, king of the Romans, into Cambrai. 160. fol. 467v (Charles V, 53+) Charles IV, wearing his imperial insignia, reads the seventh lesson during the Christmas mass. 161. fol. 468v (Charles V, 55) Messengers from the dukes of Burgundy and Berry meet the emperor and his son. 162. fol. 469 (Charles V, 58) one-and-one-half-column miniature: The provosts of Paris and of the merchants greet Charles IV, who is carried in a litter. 163. fol. 470 (Charles V, 60) two-column miniature: Meeting between Charles V and the emperor and his son. 164. fol. 470 (Charles V, 60+) Sergeants-at-arms. 165. fol. 470v (Charles V, 61) two-thirds of a page: Entry into Paris of King Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV, and Wenceslaus. 166. fol. 471v (Charles V, 63) Charles V greets the seated emperor with a kiss. 167. fol. 472 (Charles V, 64) Parisians give presents to Charles IV and Wenceslaus. 168. fol. 473v (Charles V, 66) two-thirds of a page: Great feast in the Grande Salle of the Palace. 169. fol. 475 (Charles V, 68) Emperor Charles IV meets with members of the University of Paris. 170. fol. 476v (Charles V, 69) Emperor Charles IV makes offers to Charles V in a meeting with the king's council. 171. fol. 477 (Charles V, 70) The emperor visits Queen Jeanne of Bourbon. 172. fol. 478 (Charles V, 72) two miniatures: The emperor has Wenceslaus swear loyalty to Charles V/ The emperor arrives at the abbey of Saint-Mor-des-Fosses (illustrates Charles V, 73). 173. fol. 478v (Charles V, 74) The emperor and his son receive presents from Charles V. 174. fol. 479 (Charles V, 76) Charles V and the emperor Charles IV exchange rings. 175. fol. 480 (Charles V, 79) Charles V stands by the dauphin, who receives letters from the emperor. 176. fol. 480v (Charles V, 82) two-column miniature: Funeral procession of Jeanne of Bourbon.

STYLE: Several artists took part; the most distinctive are: I (Master of the Coronation of Charles VI): fols 3v, 4. II (Follower of the Coronation Master): fols 265, 394, 473v. III (Follower of the Coronation Master): fols. 436, 438. IV (Master of the Coronation Book of Charles V ): fols. 326, 328, 329, 330v, 339, 340v, 344, 350, 355v, 368, 439, 439v, 480v. V (Follower of the Master of the Bible of Jean de Sy): fols. 103v, 105v, 106v, 108, 109v, 112. VI (Perhaps principal artist of B.N. fr. 823): fols. 149, 150v, 154, 160, 161, 161v, 165, 179, 194, 195v, 200, 201, 227v, 230. VII: fols. 66v, 156, 164, 173v, 174, 177.

PROVENANCE: The two volumes of this text were executed for Charles V; his colophon, scraped away by a later owner, is legible with ultraviolet light on fol. 263v (see Fastes

du gothique ). This manuscript is not mentioned in inventories of Charles V. It may have belonged to John of Berry after his brother's death. Delachenal quotes an entry from an inventory at Bourges (now lost) c. 1416 that describes this manuscript: "No. 49 Un livre des croniques de France, en deux volumes écrit en française de lettres de forme, très notablement historié et enluminé au commencement et en plusieurs lieux. Au commencement du deuxième feuillet du premier volume est écrit de tout le monde et au commencement du troisième feuillet de l'autre volume il vint près. "

REFERENCES: Roland Delachenal, ed., Grandes Chroniques de France (Paris, 1910–20), 3:viii–xxv; Delisle, Recherches , 1: 312–14 no. 90; Paris, Grand Palais, Fastes du gothique , (Paris, 1981), 329–31 no. 284, 338–39 no. 294; Anne D. Hedeman, "Copies in Context: The Coronation of Charles V in his Grandes Chroniques de France ," in Coronations: Medieval and Early Modern Monarchic Ritual , ed. János Bak (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1990), 72–87; idem, "Restructuring the Narrative," Studies in the History of Art 16 (1985): 171–81; idem, "Valois Legitimacy," Art Bulletin 66 (1984): 97–117; Avril, Gousset and Guenée, Les Grandes Chroniques; Omont, Catalogue général, Anciens fonds français , 1: 494 no. 2813; Paris, Bibilothèque Nationale, La librairie de Charles V (Paris, 1968), 112 no. 195; Claire Richter Sherman, The Portraits of Charles V of France (New York, 1969), 41–44; Marcel Thomas, "La visite de l'Empereur Charles IV," Congrès Internationale des bibliophiles (Vienna, 1971), 85–98.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 2814
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1223).

COLLATION: 1(1)8–29(233)8. Incipits: fol. 1: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: la victoire qu'il ot . . . ; fol. 239: mesme temps par. . . . Explicit: manuscript has been misplaced (and unavailable for consultation) since 1980.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Presentation of manuscript to king.

REFERENCE: Omont, Catalogue général, Anciens fonds français , 1:494 no. 2814.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 6466–67
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: Vol. I: 1(2)8; 2(10)6; 3(15)8–12(87)8; 13(95)4; 14(99)8–27(203)8; 28(211)4; 29(219)8; 30(227)8; 31(235)4; 32(239)8–34(255)8; 35(263)1, three-quarters blank substituted folio. Vol. II: 1(2)8, first 13 lines scraped (contained text transcribed on fol. 263 of vol. I); 2(10)8–19(146)8; 20(154)2; 21(156)8–36(276)8; 37(284)1. Incipits: Vol. I: fol. 2: de la genealogie . . . ; fol. 3: comment childeric . . . ; fol. 15: text begins, but has been cut out. Vol. II: fol. 284: R: de la loy. . . . T: Parce que le roy. . . . Explicit: fol. 284: . . . et emmerent grand foison de biens.

MINIATURES: All have been cut out; they were positioned as follows: 1. fol. 2 (Table of Contents) two-column miniature. 2. fol. 16 (I, 1) two-column miniature. 3. fol. 17 (I, 6). 4. fol. 17v (I, 6?). 5. fol. 17v (I, 7). 6. fol. 18 (I, 8). 7. fol. 19 (I, 10). 8. fol. 21v (I, 14). 9. fol. 22 (I, 15). 10. fol. 22 (I, 16). 11. fol. 25 (I, 20). 12. fol. 28 (II, 1). 13. fol. 44 (II, 23). 14. fol. 69v (IV, 1). 15. fol. 80v (IV, 20). 16. fol. 83 (IV, 25). 17. fol. 83v (V, 1). 18. fol. 90 (V, 9). 19. fol. 99 (V, 20). 20. fol. 106 (V, 28). 21. fol. 109 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1). 22. fol. 123v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1). 23. fol. 126v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 3?). 24. fol. 128 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 4). 25. fol. 131 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1). 26. fol. 135 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 6). 27. fol. 141v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1). 28. fol. 148 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 7). 29. fol. 152 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1). 30. fol. 159v (Louis the Pious, 1). 31. fol. 185v (Charles the Bald, 1). 32. fol. 200v (Louis the Stammerer, 1). 33. fol. 204v (Louis the Stammerer, 5). 34. fol. 210 (Louis IV, 1). 35. fol. 215 (Lothaire, 1). 36. fol. 218v (Robert, 1). 37. fol. 239v (Louis VI, 1). Vol. II: 38. fol. 2 (Louis VII, 1). 39.

fol. 15 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1). 40. fol. 28v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1). 41. fol. 44 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1). 42. fol. 57v (Louis VIII, 1). 43. fol. 60v (Saint Louis, 1). 44. fol. 95v (Philip III, 1). 45. fol. 113 (Philip IV, 1). 46. fol. 139 (Louis X, 1). 47. fol. 141 (Philip V, 1). 48. fol. 145 (Charles IV, 1). 49. fol. 156 (Philip of Valois, 1). 50. fol. 196 (John the Good, 1). 51. fol. 235 (Charles V, 1).

STYLE: The few corners of miniatures that remain recall the style of the Master of the Cité des Dames .

PROVENANCE: A scraped signature of John of Berry on fol. 285 enabled me to identify this manuscript, which was originally one volume, as manuscript 970 in the inventory of 1413 published by Guiffrey: "Item un livre des croniques de France, escript en francoys, de lettre de court, très bien historié en plusieurs lieux; et au commencement du second fueillet de la table dudit livre a escript comment Childerich couvert de veluiau noir, deux fermouers de laton, et V bouilons de mesmes su chascune aiz; lequel livre Jehan de la Barre, receveur general de toutes finances en languedoc et duchée de Guienne, donna à Monseigneur, ou mois d'avril apres Pasques án mil cccc et huit."

REFERENCES: Jules Guiffrey, ed., Inventaires de Jean de Berry (1401–1416) 2 vols. (Paris, 1894–96) 1: 257, no. 970; Omont, Catalogue général, Ancien supplément français , 1:38 nos. 6466–67.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 10132
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins through life of Philip Augustus [1223], continued with translation of Guillaume de Nangis through Louis X [1316], then continued again with a French translation and continuation of the chronicle of Jean de Saint-Victor to 1329)

COLLATION: 1(1)6; 2(7)12; 3(19)8–23(179)8; 24(187)8, all blank, unruled, different quality of parchment; 25(195)8–30(235)8; 31(243)8, all blank, unruled, different quality of parchment; 32(251)8; 33(259)8; 34(267)8, 3rd–6th lack; 35(271)8–44(343)8; 45(351)12; 46(363)8–48(379)8; 49(387)4; 50(391)8; 51(399)8; 52(407)8, 3rd lacks; 53(414)4, blank, ruled. Incipits: fol. 1: Ci commence les croniques . . . ; fol. 2: Ci commence li chapitres . . . ; fol. 19 (first folio with contemporary numeration): R: Ci commence les grans croniques. . . . T: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 20: tenue qu'en nule autre . . . ; fol. 21 (second folio of chronicle): avec luis des essillez . . . ; fol. 400 (first ending): et cardinaus . . . ; fol. 413 (second ending): et fist. . . . Explicits: fol. 400 (original ending): . . . le dessus dit Robert Conte d'Artois. fol. 413v: . . . et aussi celle folle renomee de ces enstant cella.

MINIATURES: Directions to the illuminator, given in lower margins of many folios, are recorded below (with abbreviations expanded). 1. fol. 19 (Prologue) two-column miniature: Destruction of and flight from Troy. 2. fol. 20v (I, 1) Tree of Jesse iconography; left half of tree has uncrowned heads, right half crowned (derives from rubric for prologue). 3. fol. 23 (I, 5) King Clodion beseiges a city. 4. fol. 32 (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 5. fol. 36v (II, 1) Clovis and Clotilda divide the realm between their four sons. 6. fol. 57 (III, 1) Chilperic strangles his wife, Queen Galswintha, as she sleeps. 7. fol. 84 (IV, 1) King Guntram, in bed, crowns queen, who leans over him (no textual source). 8. fol. 102v (V, 3) Young crowned Dagobert cuts the beard of his teacher. 9. fol. 127v (V, 28) Pepin, crowned and with bared sword, stands on the back of a lion; three barons kneel at the left. 10. fol. 132 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Emperor (sic ) Charlemagne's son, King Pepin, accused of treason, is brought before Charlemagne under armed guard (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. I, 11). 11. fol. 147 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne, who kneels outside a church, emperor. Direction: "Comment li reis Charlemagne entre en l'eglise s'pierre de rome. Comment li pape asist asist [sic ] le couronne empereale sour le chief et il est a genous devant le pape." 12. fol. 155v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) King Charlemagne supervises construction. Direction: "Comment un roy fier et orguilleus fait fonder une chapelle noble et real." 13. fol. 159v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 4) Emperor Constantine of

Constantinople sends messengers to Charlemagne asking for help against the Saracens. Direction: "Comment un empereur siet en un faudestuel et baille letres a chevaliers qui sont devant lui a genous." 14. fol. 160 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 5) King (sic ) Charlemagne receives messenger from Constantinople. Direction: "[trimmed]. . . Charlemagne le grant." 15. fol. 165 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 10) Outside Constantinople, King Charlemagne bids farewell to Emperor Constantine; an assistant holds relics. 16. fol. 167v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, before ch. list) Battle between four knights. Direction: trimmed. 17. fol. 168v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) King Charlemagne sleeps; above, starry sky. Direction: "Comment Charlemagne est [then portion crossed out: a toutes ses os contre surazin et assaut une cite et le sarracen sont] en son lie et voit en son dormant un grant chemin ou ciel qui s'en aloit vers espaigne et vers gallice." 18. fol. 174 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 6) Emperor Charlemagne in discussion with Agolant (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 5). 19. fol. 180v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 20. fol. 220 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of two kings and knights. Direction: "Une grant bataille de chevaliers et de rois et d'autre gent." 21. fol. 233v (Charles the Bald, 13) Vision of Charles the Bald; angel shows Charles hell. 22. fol. 237 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Louis, uncrowned, sends messengers. Direction: "Comment il envoie ses mesaires as barons pour avoir l'otroi de la corone sanf danit [?] et. . . . " 23. fol. 241 (Louis the Stammerer, 5) Outside a church, a bishop receives Louis and Carloman. Direction: "Comment l'en couronne ii enfans en une abbaie et les couronne une evesque et plusieurs barons qui i sont." 24. fol. 252v (Lothaire, 1) Bier of Louis IV surrounded by mourners. Direction: "Comment i roy est en biere et grant luminaure entour et grant plente de dames et de chevalier et de clergie." 25. fol. 255 (Louis V, 1) King stands in a landscape. 26. fol. 255 (Charles, 1) Coronation. Direction: "Comment l'en couronne un ieune roy." 27. fol. 255v (Hugh Capet, 1) Marriage of Philip Augustus and Elizabeth of Hainault. Direction: "Comment i roy espeuse une dame et la plusieurs chevaliers et plente de clergie." 28. fol. 256 (Robert, 1) Knights approach a castle. Direction: "Comment il asist clos et fors murs et diave tout entour et avec lui a grant plent. . . . " 29. fol. 260v (Henry, 1) Army besieges a castle. Direction: "Comment un guene chevalier chevache avec grant plente de gent en vers un chastel." 30. fol. 266v (Philip I, 1) A woman sleeps; midwives hold baby. Direction: "Commens une dame gist d'enfant et comment les femmes qui avec li sont le recoivent entre lor bras." 31. fol. 275 (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. Direction: "comment il fu [trimmed]." 32. fol. 299 (Louis VII, 1) King Louis VII supervises a building campaign. Direction: "Comment il fait fonda. . . [trimmed]." 33. fol. 301 (Louis VII, 3) Louis VII and companions set off on crusade. Direction: "[trimmed]. . . de chevaliers et de prelas." 34. fol. 314 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) A woman sleeps in a bed at the left; at right, several nobles offer a child, hands joined in prayer, over an altar; the head of Christ peers from a cloud. Directions: "Comment il fu nez et comment il fu presente ser/ . . . [trimmed]." 35. fol. 329v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Battle. Direction: "les grans batailles qu'il fist et qu'il ot." 36. fol. 354 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 10) Battle of Bouvines.

The following represents a different translation of the life of Louis VIII, of Guillaume de Nangis's Life of Saint Louis , and of the lives of Philip III and Philip IV than was normally used in the Grandes Chroniques . I have assigned chapter numbers here that correspond to the text as it appears in B.N. fr. 10132. Portions of these same texts appear as well in Castres, B.M.; B.R. 5; and Grenoble, Ms. 407 rés. 37. fol. 362 (Louis VIII, 1) Louis VIII receives a messenger. 38. fol. 363v (Saint Louis, 1) Nimbed Louis IX supervises construction. 39. fol. 368 (Saint Louis, 16) Capture of a Saracen city. 40. fol. 371v (Saint Louis, 20) Battle of Charles of Anjou and Manfred. 41. fol. 372 (Saint Louis, 21) Battle of Charles of Anjou against Conradin and Henry of Spain. 42. fol. 374 (Philip III, 1) Coronation of Philip III. 43. fol. 377 (Philip III, 2) Battle of Peter of Aragon and Philip III. 44. fol. 378 (Philip IV, 1) Philip IV in conversation. 45. fol. 398v (Louis X, 1) Louis X with two youths.

The following illustrate the French translation and continuation of the Chronicle of Jean de Saint-Victor. 46. fol. 403 (Philip V) At left, Philip V; at right, a woman and

monks mourn around a bier. 47. fol. 404 (Charles IV) A messenger comes to Charles IV. 48. fol. 410v (Philip of Valois) At left, King Philip of Valois is presented a baby (the daughter of Charles IV) as, at right, a queen sits up in bed and converses with him.

STYLE: Two artists. I: gatherings 1–50. II: gatherings 51 and 52.

PROVENANCE: Within the introductory materials on fol. 1 is the following passage: "Ci commencent les croniques des Roys de france depuis le temps des premiers roys qui i furent, dusques au temps du roy phelippe qui fu filz phelippe li biaux et frere le Roy looys. Lesqueles pierres honnorez de nuef chastel en normendie fist escrire et ordener en la maniere que elles sont selont l'ordenance des croniques de saint denis. A mestre thomas de maubuege demourant en rue nueuve nostre dame de paris. L'an de grace nostre seingneur. mil.ccc. et xviii." Later, this book belonged to Anne de Bueil (signature fol. 18) who married Pierre d'Amboise in 1428.

REFERENCES: Samuel Berger and Paul Durrieu, "Notes pour l'enlumineur dans les manuscrits du Moyen-Âge " Bulletin et mémoires de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France (1892): 18–20; Delisle, Cabinet des manuscrits , 1:15, 2:345, 3:304; Omont, Catalogue général, Ancien supplément français , 2:50–51 no. 10132.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 10135
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1350)

COLLATION: 1(1)2; 2(3)6; 3(9)8–39(297)8; 40(305)6; 41(311)9, 1st tipped; 42(320)8–50(384)8; 51(392)10; 52(402)8–56(434)8; 57(442)10. Incipits: fol. 1: C'ils qui ceste euvre . . . ; fol. 2: l'empereur de constantinoble . . . ; fol. 3: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 4 (second fol. of chronicle): aucuns en pristrent . . . ; fol. 450: avec aucuns autres. . . . Explicit: fol. 450: . . . pardurablement apres sa mort. Ainsi soit il.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Monk presents book to king. 2. fol. 3 (I, 1) four parts: Greeks landing in Troy/ Siege of Troy/ Founding of Sicambria/ French defeat Romans. 3. fol. 6v (I, 10) King Childeric's three visions. 4. fol. 9v (I, 15) Coronation of Clovis. 5. fol. 13 (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 6. fol. 16v (II, 1) King Clovis's four sons at his deathbed. 7. fol. 26 (II, 14) Two of Clotilda's sons make peace. 8. fol. 36 (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha as she sleeps. 9. fol. 39v (III, 4) Murder of Sigebert. 10. fol. 43v (III, 8) Condemnation of the archbishop of Rouen. 11. fol. 50 (III, 14) King Chilperic dictates to scribes. 12. fol. 55v (III, 19) Murder of King Chilperic. 13. fol. 59v (III, 24) Murder of Ebeulphe at Saint-Martin of Tours. 14. fol. 62 (IV, 1) King Guntram designates his nephew Childebert as his heir. 15. fol. 74 (IV, 20) Torture of Queen Brunhilda. 16. fol. 81v (V, 6) King Clotaire kills Duke Bertold. 17. fol. 86 (V, 12) Emperor Heraclius regains the Holy Cross. 18. fol. 92v (V, 19) Death of Dagobert; angels and devils fight above his bed. 19. fol. 97 (V, 25) King (sic ) Charles Martel escapes from the prison of his mother. 20. fol. 98 (V, 26) King (sic ) Charles Martel battles Saracens. 21. fol. 103v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Emperor enthroned receives a messenger. 22. fol. 114 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 12+) Charlemagne's son Pepin defeats the king of the Huns. 23. fol. 116v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor. 24. fol. 120v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 5) Conquest of Saragossa. 25. fol. 124 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne supervises construction. 26. fol. 134v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to sleeping Emperor Charlemagne. 27. fol. 144 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Death of Roland (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. V, 3). 28. fol. 152 (Louis the Pious, 1) King Louis enthroned receives two couples (no textual source). 29. fol. 155v (Louis the Pious, 5) Louis's son Pepin, king of Lombardy, battles Venetians at sea. 30. fol. 176v (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 31. fol. 191 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) King Louis presents barons with gifts to win their support. 32. fol. 205 (Lothaire, 1) Funeral of Louis IV. 33. fol. 207v (Hugh Capet, 1) King enthroned. 34. fol. 212v (Henry, 1) Queen Constance and her army rout her son King Henry and his army. 35. fol. 229 (Louis VI, 1) King leads army into a city

(illustrates Louis VI, 2). 36. fol. 235v (Louis VI, 8) Siege of Meaux. 37. fol. 265v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Louis VII's Christological vision. 38. fol. 271 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 12) Philip receives messengers from the Holy Land. 39. fol. 278 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Capture of Le Mans or Tours. 40. fol. 281v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 5) Attack on Acre. 41. fol. 287v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 14) Capture of chateau of Aumale. 42. fol. 295 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Philip listens to preaching of heretics. 43. fol. 301 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 10) Battle of Bouvines. 44. fol. 308v (Louis VIII, 1) Saint Valery appears to Hugh Capet. 45. fol. 312 (Saint Louis, 1) Louis IX enthroned. 46. fol. 315 (Saint Louis, 10) Death of Saint Isabel, daughter of the king of Hungary. 47. fol. 321 (Saint Louis, 31) Battle of the French and the English. 48. fol. 324 (Saint Louis, 38) Louis IX visits the pope. 49. fol. 325v (Saint Louis, 44) King of Cyprus receives a letter. 50. fol. 328v (Saint Louis, 52) Siege of Damietta. 51. fol. 334 (Saint Louis, 69) Louis IX and troops sail back to France. 52. fol. 337v (Saint Louis, 77) Louis IX feeds the poor and washes their feet. 53. fol. 339 (Saint Louis, 83) Charles of Anjou captures King Marsile. 54. fol. 342 (Saint Louis, 91) Charles of Anjou is crowned king of Sicily. 55. fol. 343 (Saint Louis, 93) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily (with French arms), defeats King Manfred. 56. fol. 345 (Saint Louis, 98) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily (with French arms), battles Henry of Aragon. 57. fol. 347 (Saint Louis, 105) Louis IX and army set sail. 58. fol. 348v (Saint Louis, 110) Capture of Carthage. 59. fol. 351 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, at deathbed of Louis IX. 60. fol. 353v (Philip III, 7) Homage of the king of Tunis. 61. fol. 357 (Philip III, 15) Coronation of Philip III. 62. fol. 365 (Philip III, 35) Pope and cardinals meet with Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily. 63. fol. 369v (Philip IV, 1) Edward I of England pays homage to Philip. 64. fol. 371 (Philip IV, 6) Acre destroyed by the sultan of Babylon. 65. fol. 375v (Philip IV, 23) Battle of Robert, count of Artois, against the Flemings. 66. fol. 376v (Philip IV, 25) King Philip oversees the translation of the relics of Saint Louis. 67. fol. 379v (Philip IV, 42) Battle of Courtrai. 68. fol. 381v (Philip IV, 47) Battle of Saint-Omer. 69. fol. 383 (Philip IV, 54) A monk battles the devil. 70. fol. 384v (Philip IV, 57) Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle. 71. fol. 391 (Philip IV, 69) Death of Henry, the Holy Roman Emperor. 72. fol. 396v (Philip V, 1) Coronation. 73. fol. 401 (Charles IV, 1) Coronation. 74. fol. 412v (Philip of Valois, 3) Coronation of Philip of Valois and Jeanne of Burgundy. 75. fol. 414 (Philip of Valois, 5) Battle of Cassel. 76. fol. 416 (Philip of Valois, 6) Homage of Edward III of England to Philip of Valois.

STYLE: At least six artists. I (Follower of the Coronation Master [of B.N. fr. 2813]): fol. 3. II: fols. 1, 6v. III: fols. 9v, 13, 16v, 26, 36, 39v, 43v, 50, 55v, 59v, 62, 74, 81v, 86, 114, 308v, 312, 324, 325v. IV: fols. 92v, 207v, 212v, 229, 235v, 265v, 271, 278v, 281v, 287v(?), 295, 301. V: fols. 97, 98, 103v, 116v, 120v, 124, 134v, 144, 152, 155v, 176v(?), 191v, 205, 315, 321, 328v, 334, 337v, 339, 342, 343, 345, 347, 348v, 351, 353v, 357, 369v, 371, 375v, 376v, 381v, 384v, 391v, 396v, 401, 412v, 414v, 416. VI: fol. 365.

PROVENANCE: On fol. 450v is a signature of Charles VI. The manuscript passed into the Burgundian library, where it was no. 78 in the inventory made in 1420: "Item, ung autre livre nomme les Croniques de France , escript en parchemin, de lettre ronde, à deux coulonnes, historié et enlumine, commencant ou II^e fueillet aucuns en pristrent et ou derrenier avecques aucuns autres . couvert de cuir vermeil marquete a fermouers de cuivre." It was still listed in Burgundian hands in the inventory of Philip the Good's manuscripts in 1467.

REFERENCES: Barrois, Bibliothèque prototypographique , 206 no. 1416; Delisle, Recherches , 1:318 no. 93; Doutrepont, Inventaire (1420) , 40 no. 48; Omont, Catalogue général, Ancien supplément français , 2:51 no. 10135.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 17270
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1350)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–45(353)8; 46(361)6; 47(367)8–52(407)8; 53(415)6, 6th excised. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Ce sont les grandes croniques de france. . . . T: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ;

fol. 2: -pousait. li . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of chronicle): et priens(?) il hauta . . . ; fol. 4: querre nouvelle habitation . . . ; fol. 419: commenca a deffendre. . . . Explicit: fol. 419v: T:  . . . pardurablement apres sa mort. R: Ci fini la vie et les fais du noble prince phelippe de valoys iadis Roy de France et cetera.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 2v (I, 1) four parts: Greeks landing in Troy/ Siege of Troy/ Founding of Sicambria/ French defeat Romans. 2. fol. 94 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) four parts: Emperor Charlemagne enthroned at court with globe and scepter/ Battle/ Emperor Charlemagne routs a king and his army/ Emperor Charlemagne receives gifts from Saracens (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1). 3. fol. 107 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome. 4. fol. 130v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roland and Ferragut (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 8). 5. fol. 137v (Louis the Pious, 1) Coronation. 6. fol. 185 (Hugh Capet, 1) Coronation. 7. fol. 280 (Saint Louis, 1) Louis IX washes the feet of the poor (illustrates Saint Louis, 77). 8. fol. 367 (Charles IV, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: Follower of the Coronation Master (of B.N. fr. 2813).

PROVENANCE: An inscription on fol. 419v states: "Ce livre est à messire Tanguy du Chastel, viscomte de la bellière et seigneur de Chastillon sur Yndre." Tanguy was governor of Cerdegne and Roussillon in 1468 and chamberlain of Louis XI. His father (perhaps previous owner of the manuscript?) was chamberlain of Louis of Orléans, went to Italy with the duke of Anjou, and then became chamberlain to Louis, duke of Guyenne. Named provost of Paris in 1415, he retired from Paris and died in 1458.

REFERENCES: Omont, Catalogue général, Ancien Saint-Germain français , 3:57 no. 17270; Unpublished notes, Section Codicologique, Institut de Recherches et l'Histoire de Textes, Paris.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 20350
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: No modern foliation; original foliation given in Roman numerals is full of errors. 1(B)4; 2(1)8–11(73)8, after fol. 77 comes fol. 68; from here on, the foliation written in the manuscript will be placed within brackets, 12(81[71])8–20(145[135])8, after the manuscript's fol. 142 comes 163 and 184; 21(153[163])8–26(193[223])8, after the manuscript's fol. 223 comes 244; 27(202[252])8, the manuscript's fol. 255 is repeated twice; 28(220[259])8; 29(228[267])8, the manuscript's fol. 269 is repeated twice; 30(236[274])8, the manuscript's fols. 274 and 278 are repeated twice; 31(244[280])8; 32(252[288])8; 33(260[296])5, too tightly bound to see which leaf is excised; 34(265[301])8–40(313[349])8, no foliation on manuscript's fol. 349, its fol. 355 is written as 360; 41(321[357])8–43(337[373])8, the manuscript's fol. 379 is followed by fols. 340, 339, and 342; 44(345[339])8, the manuscript's fol. 348 is followed by two fols. 350; 45(353[350])8–47(369[405])8; 48(377[413])10; 49(387[423])2; 50(389[425])8–55(429[465])8, the manuscript's fol. 471 is followed by fols. 412 and 473; 56(437[473])8–59(461[497])8; 60(469[505])4. Incipits: fol. C: R: Ci commencent les croniques de France. T: C'il qui ceste oeuvre commence . . . ; fol. D: il vainqui le roy goudebaut . . . ; fol. 1: R: le premier chapitre parle. . . . T: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 2 (second folio of text): . . . ambroise. En ce temps . . . ; fol. 507: menes en chastellet. . . . Explicit: fol. 507: . . . grant foison de biens.

MINIATURES: Once numeration errors begin, the manuscript's foliation will appear in brackets. 1. fol. C[D] (Prologue) Monk writing. 2. fol. E[F]v (I, 1) four parts: Flight from Troy/ Coronation of Pharamond/ Building of Sicambria/ Battle. 3. fol. 1 (I, 1) HI: Coronation; at the bottom of the page, angels hold arms repainted with the arms of the de Malet family. 4. fol. 8v (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 5. fol. 11v (II, 1) Queen Clotilda supervises the coronations of her four sons. 6. fol. 27 (III, 1) King Chilperic supervises two men who strangle Galswintha with a scarf. 7. fol. 29v (III, 4) King Sigebert in discussion. 8. fol. 47v (IV, 1) King Guntram names his nephew King Chilperic as his heir. 9. fol. 53v (IV, 12) Battle between Kings Clothaire and Theoderic and their

armies. 10. fol. 58 (IV, 20) King orders torture of Queen Brunhilda (here, tied by feet). 11. fol. 60v (V, 1) Stag takes refuge at Saint-Denis from Dagobert and his fellow huntsmen (illustrates V, 2). 12. fol. 62v (V, 4) Dagobert takes refuge from his father at Saint-Denis. 13. fol. 68 (V, 12) Battle between Emperor Heraclius and Emperor (sic ) Chosroes II, king of Persia, on a bridge. 14. fol. 73v (V, 19) The hermit John describes his vision of Dagobert's death to the bishop of Poitiers. 15. fol. 73v [83v] (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Einhard writing. 16. fol. 76v [86v] (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 5) Saxons attempt to burn a chapel founded by Saint Boniface, two angels protect it. 17. fol. 78 [88] (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 6+) Charlemagne battles the Saxons. 18. fol. 85 [95] (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor. 19. fol. 90 [100] (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 7) Meeting of a church council; cleric disputes before King Charlemagne, clerics, and nobles. 20. fol. 91v [101v] (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) King Charlemagne supervises construction. 21. fol. 95v [105v] (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 6) The emperor of Constantinople gives Emperor Charlemagne relics—the Crown of Thorns and the saint clou . 22. fol. 97 [107] (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 8) In answer to prayers of Charlemagne and others, miracles (of the cut Crown of Thorns and the floating glove) confirm the authenticity of the relics. 23. fol. 99 [109] (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 12) Charlemagne orders sermons preached about the relics. 24. fol. 100v [110v] (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to praying Emperor Charlemagne. 25. fol. 105 [115] (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 6) Charlemagne battles the Saracens. 26. fol. 106v [116] (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 8) Roland battles the giant Ferragut. 27. fol. 109v [119v] (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Saracen kings Marsile and Bagliant send messengers to Charlemagne. 28. fol. 116v [126v] (Louis the Pious, 1) Charlemagne has Louis crowned king of Aquitaine. 29. fol. 124v [134v] (Louis the Pious, 12+) King Louis the Pious in parliament at Noyen. 30. fol. 129v [139v] (Louis the Pious, 18) Pope asks King (sic ) Louis to reconcile with his son. 31. fol. 136 [146] (Louis the Pious, 23) Death of Louis the Pious. 32. fol. 137v [147v] (Charles the Bald, 1) Charles, Lothaire, and Louis divide the empire. 33. fol. 187 [157] (Charles the Bald, 13) Charles's vision before his death. 34. fol. 189 [159] (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Louis appeases the barons. 35. fol. 197 [167] (Louis IV, 1) Meeting of King Henry of Germany and King Louis IV at the Rhine. 36. fol. 200v [170v] (Lothaire, 1) Tibaut of Chartres accuses Duke Richard of Normandy falsely to Queen Engeberge. 37. fol. 203 [173] (Robert, 1) Robert writes sequences. 38. fol. 210v [280v] (Philip I, 1) Surrender of the count of the Gatinais. 39. fol. 219v [189v] (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 40. fol. 244v [194v] (Louis VI, 7) Assault on the castle of Puisat. 41. fol. 247 [197] (Louis VI, 11) Count Tibault surrenders to Louis VI. 42. fol. 258 [219] (Louis VII, 1) Louis marries Eleanor of Aquitaine (illustrates Louis VII, 2). 43. fol. 259 [220] (Louis VII, 3) Louis VII and the Holy Roman Emperor set out on a crusade. 44. fol. 268 [229] (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Birth of Philip Augustus. 45. fol. 269 [230] (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 3) Monks kneel before Philip Augustus and counselors. 46. fol. 277 [240] (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) King besieges Le Mans or Tours. 47. fol. 279v [243v] (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 7) Surrender of Acre. 48. fol. 288v [252v] (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Amaury de Bene preaches heresy. 49. fol. 295 [259] (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 15) Battle of Bouvines. 50. fol. 298v [262v] (Louis VIII, 1) Death of Philip Augustus. 51. fol. 315v [279v] (Saint Louis, 51) Louis IX leaves for crusades. 52. fol. 317v [281v] (Saint Louis, 58) Saint Louis meets with the sultan. 53. fol. 321 [285] (Saint Louis, 69) Saint Louis worships chalice in boat returning to France. 54. fol. 323v [287v] (Saint Louis, 75) Enguerrand IV de Coucy hangs three youths who hunted on his land. 55. fol. 328 [292] (Saint Louis, 91) Charles, count of Anjou, on his way to Rome to be crowned king of Sicily. 56. fol. 331v [295v] (Saint Louis, 99) French found abbey to commemorate victory. 57. fol. 334 [298] (Saint Louis, 110) Capture of Carthage. 58. fol. 336v [300v] (Philip III, 1) Charles, king of Sicily, mourns death of Saint Louis at Tunis. 59. fol. 340 [304] (Philip III, 11) Philip III and army leave Trapes. 60. fol. 353 [317] (Philip IV, 1) Homage of Edward I to Philip IV. 61. fol. 373 [337] (Philip IV, 73) Dispute between nobles. 62. fol. 374v [338v] (Louis X, 1) Coronation. 63. fol. 376 [340] (Philip

V, 1) Death of Jeanne, daughter of Louis X. 64. fol. 380 [344] (Charles IV, 1) Charles receives message. 65. fol. 388v [352v] (Charles IV, 15) Emperor and army outside city. 66. fol. 390v [353v] (Philip of Valois, 1) Barons discuss the royal succession. 67. fol. 403 [367] (Philip of Valois, 19) Sea battle between French and English. 68. fol. 407 [371] (Philip of Valois, 26) Battle of king of Spain against Saracens. 69. fol. 408 [372] (Philip of Valois, 28) Death of Duke John of Brittany. 70. fol. 425 [389] (John the Good, 1) Coronation of John the Good and his wife (arms of Anjou). 71. fol. 426 [390] (John the Good, 6) King John pardons Charles of Navarre for the murder of the constable of France. 72. fol. 428 [392] (John the Good, 16) King John supervises the execution of rebellious Norman knights. 73. fol. 429v [393v] (John the Good, 19) Battle of Poitiers. 74. fol. 435v [399v] (John the Good, 40) Preaching of Charles, king of Navarre. 75. fol. 439v [403v] (John the Good, 58) Murder of the marshals of Clermont and Champagne in front of the regent, Charles. 76. fol. 445 [409] (John the Good, 83) Meeting between Charles, king of Navarre, and Charles, regent of France. 77. fol. 447v [411v] (John the Good, 89) Royalist demonstration outside the Bastille (substitutes arms of Berry). 78. fol. 453 [417] (John the Good, 119) English army approaches Reims. 79. fol. 454v [418v] (John the Good, 124) Treaty between kings of France and England. 80. fol. 466 [430] (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V. 81. fol. 472v [436v] (Charles V, 16) Baptism of Charles VI. 82. fol. 473v [437v] (Charles V, 17) Beheading of Pierre d'Espaigne. 83. fol. 486v [450v] (Charles V, 36) Defeat of dukes of Brabant and of Gerle. 84. fol. 487 [451] (Charles V, 37) Baptism of Louis of Orléans. 85. fol. 496 [460] (Charles V, 87) Death of Gregory IX. 86. fol. 507 [471] (Charles VI, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: At least six different artists. I (Follower of Virgil Master): fols. C, Ev, 1, 298v(?). II (Follower of Virgil Master): fols. 8v, 27, 90, 91v, 210v, 317v, 428v, 435v, 439v, 453, 454v, 466, 472v, 473v, 486v, 487. III (Follower of the Virgil Master): fols. 29v, 68, 73v, 76v, 78, 85, 95v, 97, 99, 100v, 105, 106v, 109v, 116v, 124v, 129v, 136, 137v, 187, 189, 197, 200v, 203, 219v, 244v, 247, 258, 259, 268, 269, 315v, 321, 323v, 328, 331v, 334, 336v, 340, 373, 374v, 376, 380, 388v. IV: fols. 11v, 47v, 53v, 58, 60v, 62v, 353, 390v, 403, 407, 408, 425, 426, 429v, 445, 447v. V: fols. 277, 279v, 288v, 295. VI: fols. 496, 507.

PROVENANCE: At the bottom of fol. 1, two angels hold a shield repainted with the arms of Louis Malet, lord of Graville, admiral of France, who died in 1516. The original arms are not visible, but angels often appear as shield bearers in royal manuscripts.

REFERENCE: Omont, Catalogue général, Anciens petits fonds français , 1:72 no. 20350.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 20352–53
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: Vol. I: 1(1)8, 2nd–7th lack; 2(3)8–18(131)8; 19(139)8, 1st lacks; 20(146)8–22(162)8; 23(170)8, 2nd lacks; 24(177)8; 25(185)8, 5th lacks; 26(192)8–37(280)8; 38(288)2. Vol. II: 1(1)8–23(169)8; 24(177)6; 25(183)8–28(207)8; 29(215)4. Incipits: Vol. I: fol. 1: R: Cy commence les grans croniques. . . . T: C'il qui cest . . . ; fol. 2: missing; fol. 289: au seigneur. . . . Vol. II: fol. 1: R: Cy commence les chapitres. . . . T: Comment le pere saint . . . ; fol. 2: et les prelas . . . ; fol. 218: comme dessus est dit. . . . Explicit: Vol. I: fol. 289v: T: bon roy phelippe dieu donne. R: Cy finent les fais du bon roy loys. Cy apres commence la table et rubriches de bon roy monsieur saint loys. Vol. II: fol. 218v: . . . grant foison de biens.

MINIATURES: Vol. I: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Monk presents book to king. 2. fol. (I, 1) (?) four folios lack between fols. 1 and 2. 3. fol. 3v (I, 15) Coronation of Clovis. 4. fol. 4v (I, 16) Clotilda receives presents from Clovis. 5. fol. 5v (I, 18) Clovis (no crown) defeats the Alemanni. 6. fol. 6v (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 7. fol. 7v (I, 21) Battle of King Clovis and King Alarich and their forces. 8. fol. 8 (I, 22) King Clovis kills King Alarich in battle. 9. fol. 9v (I, 25) Death of King Clovis attended by Saint Severin. 10. fol. 10v (II, 1) Four sons of

Clovis divide the realm. 11. fol. 11v (II, 3) Emperor Justinian and Queen (sic ) Antonia attend execution. 12. fol. 14v (II, 8) Atalus delivered from servitude. 13. fol. 18 (II, 14) Clotilda makes peace between her two warring sons. 14. fol. 21 (II, 18) King leads French army against the Saxons. 15. fol. 21v (II, 19) Crannes, his wife, and children are burned within a building. 16. fol. 23 (II, 21) Battle. 17. fol. 24v (II, 24) Discussion of nobles. 18. fol. 26v (III, 1) Four nobles watch King Chilperic strangle his wife Galswintha while she sleeps. 19. fol. 29v (III, 4) Murder of Sigebert. 20. fol. 32 (III, 7) King Meroveus watches swordsmen slay men and children. 21. fol. 38v (III, 14) blank. 22. fol. 42v (III, 18) Queen Fredegunda supervises torture and execution of sorcerers. 23. fol. 45v (III, 22) King Guntram receives messengers from King Childebert. 24. fol. 49v (IV, 1) King Guntram and King Childebert receive messengers. 25. fol. 53v (IV, 8) cut out. 26. fol. 58 (IV, 16) King Theoderic defeats his brother Theodebert in battle. 27. fol. 63v (V, 1) Coronation of Clotaire (?). 28. fol. 89v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) King Charlemagne in battle (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. I, 2). 29. fol. 103 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor. 30. fol. 111 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne supervises construction. 31. fol. 121v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to Charlemagne, who is sleeping with his imperial crown on the bed beside him. 32. fol. 131v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 33. fol. 163 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 34. fol. 176 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Louis approaches the pope. 35. fol. 179v (Louis the Stammerer, 5) Coronation of Louis III and Carloman. 36. fol. 185 (Louis IV, 1) Barons kneel before a king and queen. 37. fol. 191v (Robert, 1) King and barons discuss. 38. fol. 195 (Henry, 1) King besieges a city. 39. fol. 200v (Philip I, 1) Crusaders battle. 40. fol. 210v (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 41. fol. 232v (Louis VII, 1) cut out. 42. fol. 245 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) King Louis VII supervises coronation of Philip Augustus (illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 2). 43. fol. 258v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Surrender of Le Mans or Tours. 44. fol. 274v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Philip Augustus orders heretics burnt. 45. fol. 287 (Louis VIII, 1) A king and two youthful kings crowned (?) (no textual source—perhaps loosely inspired by the genealogical passage in the text). Vol II: 46. fol. 1v (Saint Louis, 1) Coronation (illustrates Saint Louis, 2). 47. fol. 35v (Philip III, 1) Saint Louis besieges Tunis before his death. 48. fol. 53 (Philip IV, 1) Coronation. 49. fol. 65 (Philip IV, 4) Battle of a monk and the devil. 50. fol. 78 (Louis X, 1) Coronation. 51. fol. 79v (Philip V, 1) Cardinal visits Philip in attempt to negotiate peace between the French and Flemish (illustrates Philip V, 4). 52. fol. 84v (Charles IV, 1) Discussion at court between Charles IV and his queen and bishops (Charles IV separates from his first wife?). 53. fol. 95v (Philip of Valois, 1) Barons discuss the royal succession. 54. fol. 131v (John the Good, 1) Coronation. 55. fol. 137 (John the Good, 19) Battle of Poitiers. 56. fol. 176v (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon.

STYLE: At least four artists. I: Vol. I, fols. 1, 3v, 4v, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8, 9v, 10v, 11v, 14v, 18, 21, 21v, 24v, 179v, 185, 191v, 195, 200v, 210v. Vol. II, fols. 78, 79v, 84v, 95v. II: Vol. I, fols. 89v, 111, 131v. III: Vol. I, fols. 245, 258v, 274v, 287. IV (Master of the Cité des Dames and assistants): Vol. I, fols. 23, 26v, 29v, 32, 42v, 45v, 49v, 58, 63v, 103v, 121v. Vol. II, fols. 1v, 35v, 53, 65, 131v, 137, 176v.

REFERENCE: Omont, Catalogue général, Anciens petits fonds français , 1:72 nos. 20352–53.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 23140
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1350)

COLLATION: 1(2)2; 2(4)6, 5th lacks; 3(9)8, 6th lacks; 4(16)8, 2nd lacks; 5(23)8, 5th lacks; 6(30)8–14(94)8; 15(102)2, after this gathering the beginning books of the life of Charlemagne are missing; 16(104)8–25(176)8; 26(184)4; 27(188)8–38(276)8; 39(284)6; 40(290)10; 41(300)8–54(404)8; 55(412)12. Incipits: fol. 2: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 3: la croissement . . . ; fol. 4: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 5 (second folio of the chronicle): mais festoient . . . ; fol.

423: de decembre. . . . Explicit: fol. 428: T: sa mort. R: Et fin jusques au couronnement du roy Jehan filz du roy phelippe le tres bon catholique finis. finis.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 2 (Prologue) A tonsured monk points to a copy of the Grandes Chroniques (inscribed with the opening lines of the prologue) on a writing desk; the first of three monks approaching him bears a copy with the same inscription. 2. (I, 20) folio lacks after fol. 13, offset. 3. (II, 1) folio lacks after fol. 16, offset. 4. (II, 15) folio lacks after fol. 26, offset.

STYLE: Two artists. I (Artist II of Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, W. 126, dated between 1402 and 1410): fol. 2 miniature. II: fol. 2 (marginal figures).

REFERENCE: Omont, Catalogue général, Anciens petits fonds français , 2:72 no. 23140.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. n.a. fr. 3372
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8; 2(9)8 misbound: Third bifolium (3rd and 6th leaves) should be in place of the fourth bifolium (4th and 5th leaves); 3(17)8–33(256)8; 34(264)8, there is a 270 bis; 35(271)8–39(303)8; 40(311)8, there is a 317 bis; 41(318)8; 42(326)6; 43(332)8–51(396)8; 52(404)1. Incipits: fol. 1: C'il qui cest oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: Et fu agarantie . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of text): paour deulx parmi . . . ; fol 404: Le dit gouvernement. . . . Explicit: fol. 404: . . . et orent agreable et cetera AMEN. Cy fenisses les fais de bon roy charles le quint ainsi nommez.

MINIATURES: Both miniatures and some initials in this manuscript have been cut out. Sometime (nineteenth century?) repairs were made to the parchment of fol. 1 and two painted miniatures that copy British Library, Add. Ms. 21143, fol. 1, were added. 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) two miniatures: Construction of Sicambria/ Coronation of Pharamond.

REFERENCE: Omont, Catalogue général, Nouvelles acquisitions françaises , 2:45 no. 3372.

Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Ms. 782
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to end of the life of Philip Augustus, then continued through the life of Saint Louis)

COLLATION: 1(1)12–4(37)12, two central bifolia (fols. 53–56) are replacements; 6(61)12–23(265)12; 24(277)4, 4th excised; 25(280)12–28(316)12,12th excised; 29(327)12–32(363)12. Incipits: fol. 1: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: non qui vit et . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of chronicle): contree et alerent . . . ; fol. 4: emperes seur la terre . . . ; fol. 326 (first final folio): par la commandement . . . ; fol. 374 (second final folio): -te bonne costume. . . . Explicit: fol. 326v (first ending): . . . tempore solve; fol. 374 (second ending): sit gloria soli.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) HI: Primat presents book to king. 2. fol. 2v (I, 1) four parts: Priam dispatches Paris to Greece/ Paris sets sail/ Paris captures Helen at the temple of Venus/ Paris and Helen set sail for Troy. 3. fol. 16v (II, 1) King Childebert enthroned, attended by Kings Theoderic, Clodomir, and Clotaire. 4. fol. 36 (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles his sleeping wife, Galswintha. 5. fol. 62v (IV, 1) King Guntram of Burgundy, enthroned, hands a rod to Childebert II, his nephew, as a sign that he will be named heir. 6. fol. 79 (V, 1) two parts: Battle between Clotaire II and the Saxons/ Clotaire II gives the order to kill all Saxon youths who are taller than his sword. 7. fol. 100 (V, 25) HI: Coronation. 8. fol. 103 (V, 28) HI: Carloman and Pepin capture the city of Laon from their brother Grifon. 9. fol. 107 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) two parts: After deliberation, the pope crowns Pepin/ Childeric III renounces the royalty and enters a monastery. 10. fol. 121v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) two parts: Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne at Rome/ Pope and emperor judge conspirators. 11. fol. 129v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) two parts: King Charlemagne supervises construction of Aix-la-Chapelle/ Bridge at Mainz burns. 12. fol. 141 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) two parts: King Charlemagne has vision of starry sky/ Saint James appears to sleeping Charlemagne. 13. fol. 152 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Saracen king

Marsile persuades Ganelon to betray Roland as infidels dispute. 14. fol. 161 (Louis the Pious, 1) two parts: King Charlemagne, accompanied by his son Louis is greeted by Pope Adrian upon his arrival in Rome/ King Charlemagne supervises the coronation of Louis as king of Aquitaine by the pope. 15. fol. 187 (Charles the Bald, 1) two parts: Lothaire's army arrives before Fontenoy/ It flees from Charles the Bald's forces. 16. fol. 202v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) HI: Coronation. 17. fol. 206 (Louis the Stammerer, 5) HI:Coronation of Louis III and Carloman. 18. fol. 208v (Louis the Stammerer, 7) HI: Arrival of the Normans before a city. 19. fol. 208v (Louis the Stammerer, 7+) HI: Coronation of Odo Capet. 20. fol. 209 (Louis the Stammerer, 7++) HI: Richard, duke of Burgundy, puts Norman army to flight. 21. fol. 211v (Charles the Simple, 1) HI: King Raoul rides out from a city. 22. fol. 212 (Louis IV, 1) HI: Coronation of Louis IV. 23. fol. 217 (Lothaire, 1) HI: Coronation. 24. fol. 219 (Louis V, 1) HI: Coronation. 25. fol. 219 (Charles, 1) HI: Army of Charles of Lorraine puts to flight that of Hugh Capet. 26. fol. 219v (Hugh Capet, 1) HI: King Hugh Capet, surrounded by his barons, gives Richard, duke of Normandy, the pardon he asked for Arnoul, count of Flanders. 27. fol. 220 (Robert, 1) HI: As the pope watches, King Robert places a response he had written on the altar of Saint Peter's. 28. fol. 224v (Henry, 1) HI: Robert, duke of Normandy, greets Henry (no crown) who has come to ask for aid and protection. 29. fol. 230 (Philip I, 1) HI: Herpin, viscount of Bourges, sells his viscounty to King Philip I before going on a crusade. 30. fol. 242 (Louis VI, 1) HI: Coronation. 31. fol. 265v (Louis VII, 1) HI: Louis VII and his council meet with the bourgeoise of Orléans. 32. fol. 280 (Philip Augustus, ch. list) HI: Philip Augustus enthroned. 33. fol. 280 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Kneeling Louis VII and Queen Alix receive a crowned Philip Augustus from Christ as an assortment of women, barons, clerics, and monks kneel in prayer. 34. fol. 295 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Capture of Le Mans or Tours. 35. fol. 312 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) After deliberation, Pope Innocent III condemns Amaury de Bene. 36. fol. 326v (after the life of Philip Augustus, before dedicatory poem) two-column miniature: Abbot of Saint-Denis and attendant monks supervise presentation of book to Philip III by Primat as barons watch. 37. fol. 327 (Saint Louis, 1) HI: Standing Saint Louis holds a scepter and a model of a church. 38. fol. 374v (at the end of the chronicle) Map of the world.

STYLE: Four artists. I (Sainte-Chapelle group—main line): fols. 1, 2v, 16v, 36, 62v, 79, 100, 103, 107, 121v, 129v, 141, 152, 161, 280, 295, 312. II: fols. 187, 202v, 206, 208v (two pictures), 209, 211v, 212, 217, 219 (two pictures), 219v, 220, 224v, 230, 242, 265v(?), 326v. III: fol. 327. IV: fol. 374v.

PROVENANCE: The dedication miniature and poems on fol. 326v make it clear that this manuscript was presented to Philip the Bold sometime after 1274. On fol. 374v is a signature of Charles V (see Librairie ). Delisle was unable to locate this book in the inventories of Charles V, perhaps because of confusion about the text on the second folio. I have identified this manuscript with a book inventoried in the royal collection in 1373 that was still in the collection in 1411, 1413, and 1423. "986: Unes Croniques de France, en françois, couvertes de veluyau à fleurs de lis, a trois bouillons d'argent, escriptes de lettre de forme à deux coulombes. Comm. du texte: emperières [in inventory of 1413 given as contrée et alerent ] Fin te bonne coustume . A deux fermours d'argent—10 1. Le roy les prinst 16e de decembre 1380. Il les a rendues" [note found in update in 1380 of inventory of 1373]. The prologue ends and the text of the chronicle begins on fol. 2v; thus the second full page of the chronicle's text is fol. 4 ("empères . ."), but the second folio to contain text of the chronicle is fol. 3 ("contrée . . . ").

REFERENCES: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Librairie , 76–77 no. 146; Amedée Boinet, Les manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève (Paris, 1921), 39–47; Robert Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of Saint Louis (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1977), 237; Delisle, Recherches , 1:309–311; François Garnier, Le language de l'image au Moyen-Âge (Paris, 1982).

Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Ms. 783
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–57(449)8; 58(457)3. The Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève limits the amount of time allowed a reader with certain precious manuscripts. Thus, this is Boinet's collation. Incipits: fol. 1: Ce qui ceste euvre commence . . . ; fol. 2: Le xxiiij comment le roy . . . ; fol. 3: prendrent les francois . . . ; fol. 459: la garde. . . . Explicit: fol. 459v: . . . foison de biens.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Monk writing. 2. fol. 13 (II, 1) Battle between two kings and their armies. 3. fol. 27v (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles his sleeping wife, Galswintha, with a cord. 4. fol. 47v (IV, 1) King Guntram, enthroned with another king, hands staff to Childebert as a sign that he has been named heir. 5. fol. 60 (V, 1) King receives a messenger. 6. fol. 82 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Einhard writing. 7. fol. 93v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Coronation of Charlemagne as emperor by Pope Leo III. 8. fol. 99v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 5) King Charlemagne receives messengers from the emperor of Constantinople. 9. fol. 103 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 6) Emperor Charlemagne receives messengers outside the walls of Constantinople. 10. fol. 108v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to Emperor Charlemagne. 11. fol. 117 (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 12. fol. 124 (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Charlemagne supervises the coronation of Louis as king of Aquitaine by the pope. 13. fol. 127v (Louis the Pious, 6) blank. 14. fol. 145v (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 15. fol. 158 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Coronation. 16. fol. 166v (Louis IV, 1) Coronation. 17. fol. 170v (Lothaire, 1) Coronation. 18. fol. 173v (Robert, 1) Pope and cardinals watch Robert put sequences he has written on the altar of Saint Peter's in Rome. 19. fol. 177v (Henry, 1) King Henry leads army against opponents. 20. fol. 182 (Philip I, 1) William the Conqueror's navy sails for England. 21. fol. 192v (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 22. fol. 211v (Louis VII, 1) Louis VII's entry into Paris. 23. fol. 222v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Louis VII and Queen Alix pray before an altar for an heir. 24. fol. 259 (Louis VIII, 1) Coronation. 25. fol. 262 (Saint Louis, 1) Siege of Avignon. 26. fol. 296 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, arrives at deathbed of Saint Louis. 27. fol. 312v (Philip IV, 1) Edward I of England (here, a duke) pays homage to Philip. 28. fol. 335v (Louis X, 1) Coronation of Louis and Clemence of Hungary. 29. fol. 337 (Philip V, 1) Coronation. 30. fol. 342 (Charles IV, 1) Arrival of Maria of Luxembourg at a city. 31. fol. 353v (Philip of Valois, 1) Barons discuss the royal succession. 32. fol. 395v (John the Good, 1) Coronation of John the Good and Jeanne of Burgundy. 33. fol. 435 (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon. 34. fol. 469 (Charles VI, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: Second artist of B.N. fr. 823.

PROVENANCE: An inscription on fol. 469v, "Cest livre est messire Regnault d'Angennes," and arms at the bottom of fol. 1 (du sable au sautoir d'argent ) confirm that the book belonged to Regnault d'Angennes, lord of Rambouillet, who was governor of the dauphin, Louis, duke of Guyenne; captain of the Louvre in 1392; knight and chamberlain of Charles VI in 1398; and member of the grand council in 1411.

REFERENCES: Boinet, Manuscrits à peintures , 129–33; Marius Barroux, Les fêtes royales de Saint-Denis en mai 1389 (Paris, 1936), 53 n. 1, 69.

Paris, Société des Autographs des Manuscrits Français, Ex-Bute Manuscript (on deposit at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris)
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1226)

COLLATION: 1(1)2; 2(3)8–10(67)8; 11(75)8, 2nd lacks; 12(82)8–14(98)8; 15(106)9, (?) 1st tipped (tightly bound); 16(115)8–27(203)8; 28(211)8, 8th lacks; 29(218)8–32(242)8; 33(250)2; 34(252)8, 2nd to 6th lack; 35(254)8; 36(262)8, 2nd to 6th lack; 37(264)8, 6th lacks; 38(271)2. Several of the missing leaves that were in the Cotton collection and that survived the fire

are catalogued as British Library, Cotton Vitellus, E II. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Ci commence le noble livre. . . . T: C'il qui ceste . . . ; fol. 2: -nouries comme il saisoient . . . ; fol. 3 (second of text): -nonnes il faisoit . . . ; fol. 274: lors estoit venus. . . . Explicit: fol. 274v: T: son pere le roy phelippe le bon roy. R: Ci fini du bon roy loys qui mourut a montpancier. Ci commence saint loys.

MINIATURES: When images from London, British Library, Cotton Vitellus E II can be identified, they will be listed below. 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) four parts: Landing of Greeks/ Greeks besiege Troy/ Battle of Greeks and Trojans (French)/ Building of Sicambria (illustrations from Book I). 2. fol. 2v (I, 1) Paris leads Helen out of a house to meet King Priam. 3. fol. 18 (II, 1) Three sons of Clovis receive messenger. 4. fol. 39 (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha as she sleeps. 5. fol. 72 (IV, 20) King Clotaire II supervises torture of Queen Brunhilda. 6. fol. lacks after fol. 75 (V, 1) offset. 7. fol. 82v (V, 9) Kings Dagobert and Caribert supervise the construction of Saint-Denis. 8. fol. 85v (V, 12) Emperor Heraclius recovers the Holy Cross. 9. fol. 93v (V, 20) Kings Sigebert and Louis divide the wealth of their father Dagobert. 10. fol. 96 (V, 23) Martyrdom of Saint Leger, bishop of Autun. 11. fol. 102 (V, 28) Coronation of Pepin by a bishop (instead of the pope). 12. folio lacks after fol. 105 (?) (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) offset. 13. fol. 113v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 13) Pope Leo is tortured by Roman soldiers. 14. fol. 115v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome. 15. fol. 123v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne supervises the construction of Aix-la-Chapelle. 16. fol. 135v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to sleeping Emperor Charlemagne. 17. fol. 146v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux. 18. fol. 150v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 5) Execution of the traitor Ganelon. 19. fol. 155v (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Charlemagne rides to Rome with young King Louis to have him crowned king of Aquitaine by the pope. 20. fol. 174 (Louis the Pious, 18) King Louis, imprisoned at Soissons, leans out the window to hook the sword from the belt of his sleeping guard. 21. fol. 183 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 22. Cotton Vitellus E II, fol. 1A (Charles the Simple, 1) Normans at sea. 23. Cotton Vitellus E II, fol. 18A (Louis IV, 2) Conspiracy of the count of Flanders against the duke of Normandy. 24. Cotton Vitellus E II, fol. 9A (Louis V, 1) Coronation. 25. Cotton Vitellus E II, fol. 12A (Charles, 1) Battle outside Laon. 26. Cotton Vitellus E II, fol. 22A (Robert, 1) King directs siege of a city. 27. Cotton Vitellus E II, fol. 25A verso (Philip I, 1) French king and army depart for the crusade. 28. Cotton Vitellus E II, fol. 39A (Louis VI, 1) Messengers arrive during coronation. 29. fol. 208v (Louis VI, 17) Louis VI drives out forces of Emperor Henry V. 30. fol. 215 (Louis VI, 23+) Coronation of Louis VII. 31. fol. 216 (Louis VI, 25) Mourners by catafalque of Louis VI. 32. fol. 232 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Louis VII's Christological vision. 33. fol. 233 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 3) Coronation of Philip by bishops and Henry II of England. 34. fol. 238v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 12) Philip receives messengers from the Christians in Jerusalem. 35. fol. 244v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 22) Philip battles Richard I of England. 36. fol. 248 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Siege of Le Mans or Tours. 37. fol. 250v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 4) Philip arrives at the port of Messina. 38. fol. 251v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 5) Philip supervises the siege of Acre. 39. fol. 257 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 21) French crusaders arrive at Constantinople. 40. fol. 261v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) King Philip argues with bishops about Amaurian heresy. 41. fol. 264 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 12) Philip exhorts troops before battle. 42. fol. 266 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 14) Philip is knocked off his horse by a grappling iron, and the French take Count Ferrand prisoner. 43. folio lacks after fol. 268 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 19) offset. 44. fol. 271 (Louis VIII, 1) Saints Valery and Riquier appear to sleeping Hugh Capet.

Cotton Vitellus E II (unidentified miniatures)—fol. 49A: King stands at the right, in front of a man seated at a desk. fol. 50A: Soldiers lie in a heap at the lower left; at the right, a single soldier sleeps; a haloed, black-robed monk climbs over the top of the hill to address the sleeping soldier.

STYLE: Two artists. I (Master of the Bible of Jean de Sy): fols. 1, 2v, 18, 85v, 113v, 123v, 146v, 155v, 183(?), 208v, 216, 232, 238v, 244v, 251v(?), 266. II (Master of the Coronation Book of Charles V ): fols. 39(?), 72, 82v, 93v, 96, 102(?), 115v, 135v, 150v, 174, 215, 233, 248(?), 250v, 257, 261v, 264, 271(?).

PROVENANCE: On fol. 1, swans and the arms of John of Berry (fleurs-de-lis semés, a bordure engrelé gueles ) appear in the margins and between the miniatures respectively. A hybrid figure in the margin holds a pennon with france ancien , and two rams wearing capes scattered with fleurs-de-lis butt heads in the lower margin. Because this manuscript does not appear in John of Berry's inventory after his death, de Hamel (Sotheby's catalogue) suggests that it may be one of the Grandes Chroniques that John of Berry gave away, perhaps to his nephew Guillaume.

REFERENCES: Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts (London, 1908) 70–71, no. 145 and pl. 100; Delisle, Recherches , 1:314–17 no. 91; Sotheby's Sales Catalogue, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures , Tuesday, 8 December 1981, lot 94, 116–25.

Prague, National Library, Kynzvarte^[*] Ms. 23 A 12, 2 volumes
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: Contemporary foliation (Roman numerals) is used here because it continues through both volumes. Vol. I: 1(A)2; 2(1)8–10(65)8; 11(n.a.)2, a summary of the battles of Charlemagne (unfoliated leaves); 12(73)8–32(235)8. Vol. II: 1(242)8–20(394)8; 21(403)6; 22(409)8–31(481)8; 32(489)4; 33(493)8–39(535)8; 40(543)6. Incipits: Henceforth, modern foliation appears outside and contemporary foliation inside brackets. Fol. 1[A]: blank (prologue begins on verso); fol. 2[B]: presumption de ce qu'il . . . ; fol. 3[1]: R: La table des livres. . . . T: Pour savoir trouver . . . ; fol. 5[3]: R: Le premier chapitre. . . . T: Quatre cens . . . fol. 6[4] (second folio of chronicle): dams(?) des palus de meade . . . ; fol. 311[547]: R: Du couronnement du roy. . . . T: L'an du grace mil. . . . Explicit: fol. 311[547]: . . . grant foison de biens.

MINIATURES: Many of the pictures in this manuscript are inscribed with labels identifying places or people within them. (Vol. I: fols. 5 [3], 25 [23], 58 [56], 206 [204]. Vol. II: fols. 96v [338v], 156 [398], 201 [443]) Those not inscribed have red rubrics that identify the scene and differ from those found in the critical edition; these are transcribed below. Vol. I: 1. fol. 5 [3] (I, 1) four parts: Flight from Troy/ Eleanus the poet dictating/ Battle between the French and the Romans/ Coronation of Pharamond. 2. fol. 15 [13] (II, 1) blank. 3. fol. 25 [23] (III, 1) Caribert replaces Chilperic as ruler of Paris (no textual source). 4. fol. 48 [46] (IV, 1) King Guntram hands a staff to King Childebert. R: Ceste histoire devise comment le roy Gontran donna au Roy childebert son royaume apres sa mort par le signe d'une lance qu'il lui baille. 5. fol. 58 [56] (V, 1) King supervises the beheading of a man labeled "alethee." 6. fol. 66 [64] (V, 22) Barons pay homage to Clovis II. R: fol. 65 Ceste histoire devise comment les barons du roy loys lui baisent le pie et lui font homage. 7. fol. 77v [73v] (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Emperor Charlemagne enthroned within a tent. 8. fol. 122v [118] (Louis the Pious, 1) Louis crowned king of Aquitaine by the pope. R. : Comment l'apostole couronna le roy loys le debonnaire filz de charlemaine la grant. 9. fol. 141 [136] (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 10. fol. 154v [150v] (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Empress Richilda presents Louis with sword. R: Ceste histoire demoustre comment l'emperere Richeut present au Roy loys le barbe l'espee de son pere. 11. fol. 178v [175v] (Philip I, 1) Battle between two kings and their armies. R: Ceste histoire represente comment le vaillant roy de france loys le gros se compatoit souvent contre le roy d'engleterre au vivant du roy philippe de france et apres. 12. fol. 206 [204] (Louis VII, 1) The pope with Conrad, Holy Roman Emperor, and Louis VII at the Holy Sepulchre. R: Ceste histoire represente comment l'empereur conrat d'alemaigne et le roy loys de france se croisirent et alerent visiter le saint sepulcre. 13. fol. 220 [216] (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) King Philip,

holding a pennon, gives a chalice to three barons. R: Ceste histoire signifie comment le roy philippe donne a ses barons a boire sang humain en une coupe d'or. Vol. II: 14. fol. 19 [261] (Saint Louis, 1) Coronation. R: Le couronnement du roy sains loys de france. 15. fol. 68v [310v] (Philip III, 1) King and soldiers arrive on ship; other soldiers on land. R: Comment le roy phelippe de france se mist en mer pour retourner en france apres le trespassement de son pere le roy saint loys. 16. fol. 96v [338v] (Philip IV, 1) Homage of Edward I of England before Philip. 17. fol. 156 [398] (Philip of Valois, 1) The count of Flanders surrenders to Philip of Valois (illustrates Philip of Valois, 5). R: (brown ink): Le roy se mist en possession de flandres par les clefs. 18. fol. 201 [443] (John the Good, 1) John supervises the execution of Raoul, count of Eu and Guines. R: Ceste histoire represente comment le roy Jehan de France fist decapiter le connestable de france C'est assavoir messire Raoul conte d'eu et de guines. 19. fol. 260 [496] (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne de Bourbon. R: (259v [495v]) L'istoire ensuivant devise comment le roy charles le quint fu couronne a rains. Et aussi la royne Jehanne de bourbon sa femme avecques lui.

STYLE: Master of the Berry Apocalypse.

REFERENCE: See Frantisek^[*] Cada, Rukopisy knihovny státního zámku v Kynzvarte^[*] (Prague, 1965), 131 no. 85 and pl. 5.

Reims, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 1469
Grandes Chroniques de France (origins to mid-life of Philip III)

COLLATION: 1(1)12, there is an 8 bis; 2(11)12–40(473)12, numeration for folios 234, 254, 286, 443, 455–58 skipped; 41(485)4. Incipits: fol. 1: Cil qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: ydoles ne se . . . ; fol. 3 (first page of chronicle): estoit ses confines . . . ; fol. 4 (second folio of chronicle): ot les maris pas . . . ; fol. 488: labour et panie vindrent. . . . Explicit: fol. 488: . . . la dispensacion du saint pere.

MINIATURE: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) two columns: Coronation of Clovis, pagan and Christian kings in attendance.

REFERENCE: Reims, Bibliothèque Municipale, Les plus beaux manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Municipale de Reims (Reims, 1967), 29 no. 38; Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts, Catalogue général . . . Départements , 39: 683.

Switzerland, Private Collection (Ex-Mostyn)
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins through Philip Augustus)

COLLATION: 1(1)12, 1st is substituted folio; 2(13)12–22(253)12; 23(265)10, last three folios excised. Incipits: fol. 1 (reconstructed): C'il ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: le disiesme parole . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of chronicle): peuple ala en europe; fol. 269: et li convens responnoient. . . . Explicit: fol. 269: . . . de son age lviii et de son regne xliii.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 2 (I, 1) Priam rides with knights. 2. fol. 14 (II, 1) French king in battle. 3. fol. 30 (III, 1) King Chilperic rides with three women. 4. fol. 50v (IV, 1) King Chilperic receives a gold scepter. 5. fol. 63v (V, 1) Stag hunted by Dagobert takes refuge in Saint-Denis (illustrates V, 2). 6. fol. 86v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Enthroned Emperor Charlemagne receives a messenger. 7. fol. 99 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Charlemagne crowned emperor by Pope Leo before kneeling spectators. 8. fol. 105v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne orders construction of Aix-la-Chapelle. 9. fol. 115v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to Emperor Charlemagne as he sleeps. 10. fol. 124v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Emperor Charlemagne laments the death of Roland (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. V, 5). 11. fol. 132 (Louis the Pious, 1) King Louis speaks with messengers. 12. fol. 43 155 (Charles the Bald, 1) French king battles an emperor. 13. fol. 168 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Coronation of Louis II. 14. fol. 175v (Louis IV, 1) Queen Algive and young Louis in ship at sea. 15. fol. 179 (Lothaire, 1) Armed men threaten Saint

Hilary of Poitiers. 16. fol. 189v (Philip I, 1) Marriage of Philip I. 17. fol. 199 (Louis VI, 1) Coronation of Louis VI. 18. fol. 218v (Louis VII, 1) Louis VII leads his army. 19. fol. 219v (Louis VII, 3) Louis VII, Emperor Conrad, and others ride on crusade. 20. fol. 230 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) People pray for an heir for Philip VII. 21. fol. 242v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Seige of Tours or Le Mans. 22. fol. 257v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Emperor supervises a royal coronation (sic ) (Coronation of Louis VIII, John of Brienne, emperor of Constantinople, in attendance).

STYLE: Master of the Roman de Fauvel (Geoffroy of Saint Léger ?).

PROVENANCE: This book probably belonged to John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy. I have identified it in the Burgundian inventory of 1420 drafted shortly after Philip the Good's accession and published by Doutrepont: "no. 154, Item, ung autre livre des Croniques de France , couvert de cuir noir houssey a II fermoirs de cuyvre, commencant ou second fueillet Le x^e parole, et ou derrenier Et li convens ." In margin: "Presté à madame."

REFERENCES: Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures . Tuesday, 3 July 1984, lot 47, 47–52; Doutrepont, Inventaire (1420) , 102 no. 154.

Toulouse, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 512
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–18(145)8; 19(153)6; 20(159)8–43(343)8; 44(351)4; 45(355)8–48(379)8; 49(387)2; 50(389)8, 1st lacks;; 51(396)8–60(460)8; 61(468)2. Incipits: fol. 1: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: Quatre cens et quatre . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of chronicle): gouverneur l'un ot nom . . . ; fol. 468: mais sur le chemin. . . . Explicit: fol. 468v: . . . grant foison de.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Monk writing. 2. fol. 2 (I, 1) cut out. 3. fol. 9v (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 4. fol. 12v (II, 1) Queen Clotilda divides realm among her four sons. 5. fol. 26 (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha while she sleeps. 6. fol. 39v (III, 19) Queen Fredegunda watches her henchmen kill King Chilperic. 7. fol. 44 (IV, 1) King Guntram designates King Childebert as his heir. 8. fol. 52v (IV, 20) King Clotaire supervises the torture of Queen Brunhilda. 9. fol. 55v (V, 1) King Clotaire gives treaty to Lombards. 10. fol. 60v (V, 9) Dagobert gives part of his realm to his brother, Caribert, and founds the abbey of Saint-Denis. 11. fol. 68 (V, 19) John the Hermit's vision after Dagobert's death: Saints Martin, Maurice, and Denis save Dagobert from devils' torments. 12. fol. 68v (V, 20) Dagobert's sons divide the treasure after their father's death. 13. fol. 74 (V, 27) Charles Martel beseiges Avignon. 14. fol. 75 (V, 28) Grifon surrenders to his brothers Charlemagne and Pepin. 15. fol. 78 (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Einhard and Turpin writing. 16. fol. 89v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome. 17. fol. 96 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Charlemagne supervises construction of Aix-la-Chapelle. 18. fol. 105v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to sleeping Emperor Charlemagne to show him the starry sky. 19. fol. 114v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Emperor Charlemagne receives presents sent by the Saracens; battle of Roncevaux. 20. fol. 121v (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Charlemagne appoints counselors for young Louis, king of Aquitaine. 21. fol. 129 (Louis the Pious, 11) Emperor Louis supervises the execution of traitors. 22. fol. 143 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 23. fol. 159 (Louis the Stammerer, 1). Empress Richilda gives Louis sword and scepter. 24. fol. 159 (Louis the Stammerer, 5) Coronation of Louis III and Carloman. 25. fol. 162 (Charles the Simple, 1) Archbishop of Rouen welcomes Rollo, first duke of Normandy. 26. fol. 164 (Charles the Simple, 2+?) Baptism of Rollo, at which he took the name Robert. 27. fol. 164v (Charles the Simple, 3) Battle of French king and barons. 28. fol. 166 (Louis IV, 1) Coronation. 29. fol. 166v (Louis IV, 2) King supervises hanging (no textual source). 30. fol. 170v (Lothaire, 1) Coronation. 31. fol. 172v (Hugh Capet, 1) Coronation. 32. fol. 174v (Robert, 1) Robert presents a sequence he had written to the pope at Saint Peter's. 33. fol. 178v (Henry, 1) Henry beseiges a city. 34. fol. 183v (Philip I, 1) Philip buys county of Bourges from Eudes Arpin, the count. 35. fol. 193v

(Louis VI, 1) At coronation, bishops carefully gird kneeling king with sword. 36. fol. 214 (Louis VII, 1) Louis VII enters Paris. 37. fol. 226 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Louis VII has young Philip crowned (illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 2). 38. fol. 237 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Capture of Tours or Le Mans, banner inscribed "ardiement." 39. fol. 251 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Burning of heretics. 40. fol. 263 (Louis VIII, 1) Coronation of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile. 41. fol. 267 (Saint Louis, 1) Mourners around bier of nimbed Louis VII. 42. fol. 300v (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, arrives at the deathbed of Saint Louis. 43. fol. 305 (Philip III, 15) Coronation of Philip III. 44. fol. 317 (Philip IV, 1) Edward I (arms of England, no crown) pays homage to Philip. 45. fol. 339v (Louis X, 1) Louis, wearing arms of France and Navarre, welcomes the Jews, wearing red and white badges, back into France. 46. fol. 341 (Philip V, 1) Coronation of Philip, wearing arms of France and Navarre. 47. fol. 345v (Charles IV, 1) Marriage of Charles IV and Maria of Bohemia. 48. fol. 356 (Philip of Valois, 1) Surrender of the count of Flanders to Philip, who wears a fur hat; cleric drafts a treaty (?) in foreground. 49. fol. 392v (Philip of Valois, 19) Battle of Poitiers: English and French arms; French pennons inscribed "leal" and "ale?"; French wear small red crosses; the English, white. 50. folio lacks after fol. 388 (John the Good, 1). 51. fol. 427 (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon. 52. fol. 433 (Charles V, 15) Baptism of Charles VI. 53. fol. 452 (Charles V, 60) Meeting of Charles V and Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor. 54. fol. 468 (Charles VI, 1) Coronation.

STYLE: Follower of the Troyes Master (active c. 1390–1415).

REFERENCES: Meiss, Fourteenth Century , 359; idem, Limbourg Brothers , 406–7; Toulouse, Bibliothèque Municipale, Catalogue , (1885) 7:316 no. 512.

Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, Ms. L. II. 8
Grandes Chroniques de France

COLLATION: This book was burned in the fire of 1904. Its fragmentary condition makes it impossible to provide either a collation or incipits and explicits.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 39 (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha while she sleeps. 2. fol. 67v (IV, 1) Discussion between two kings in a landscape. 3. fol. 148 (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to Charlemagne as he sleeps. 4. fol. 153v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Battle of Roncevaux (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. V, 2) 5. fol. 167 (Louis the Pious, 1) Charlemagne and the pope crown Louis king of Aquitaine. 6. fol. 193 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 7. fol. 208 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Louis receives sword and scepter from Empress Richilda. 8. fol. 212v (Louis the Stammerer, 5) Coronation of Carloman and Louis III. 9. fol. 239 (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 10. fol. 278 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Christological vision. 11. fol. 326 (Saint Louis, 1) Siege of Avignon. 12. fol. 369 (Philip III, 1) Death of Saint Louis. 13. fol. 391 (Philip IV, 1) Edward I does homage to Philip. 14. fol. 422 (Louis X, 1) Coronation of Louis. 15. fol. 442 (Philip of Valois, 1) Discussion of the royal succession. 16. fol. 486 (John the Good, 1) Coronation. 17. fol. 492 (John the Good, 19) Battle of Poitiers.

STYLE: Second artist of B.N. fr. 823.

Valenciennes, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 637
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–11(81)8; 12(89)12–33(341)12; 34(353)6; 35(359)12–44(467)12; 45(479)6. Incipits: fol. 1: C'il qui ceste oeuvre . . . ; fol. 2: il l'espousa a soissons . . . ; fol. 3 (second folio of chronicle): -chacer les plus grans ennemis . . . ; fol. 483: filz et les autres. . . . Explicits: fol. 483v: . . . et emmenerent grant foison de biens.

MINIATURES: Almost every miniature is described by directions to the illuminator in the upper or lower margins. They are included in this listing of miniatures (also see Mangaert

below). 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Monk writing. Direction: "Docteur seant en une chere . . . vestu en guise de moine et devant lui une table plaine de livres." 2. fol. 2 (I, 1) four parts: Pagan Coronation/ Battle between French and Romans/ King leaves city in formal procession/ King supervises the construction of Sicambria. 3. fol. 14v (II, 1) four parts: Baptism of Clovis; angel brings chrism/ Clovis and Clotilda enthroned in the palace/ Battle/ King Clodomir supervises the execution of Sigismond, king of Burgundy (?). 4. fol. 32 (III, 1) two-column miniature: King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha as she sleeps. 5. fol. 54v (IV, 1) King Guntram receives messengers. Direction: "Le roy siet en une chere et (des clers [crossed out]) legas d'un coste ij ou iij et des nobles d'aultre coste." 6. fol. 70 (V, 1) Queen Gondeberge receives Aalulphes (?) (if so, illustrates V, 5). Direction: "Premiere une royne en une chere et une dame (jeune seant de costeli [crossed out]) et iij noble eglinie devant elle sans chapperon faisant supplication." 7. fol. 93v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Einhard writing. Direction: "Comment l'acteur de la vie challemaigne saet en une haulte chere et un pulpittre tenant une plume comme il escrisist." 8. fol. 104v (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) King Charlemagne judges the rebels who deposed the pope. Direction: "Comment le roy siet en une chere et pluiseurs nobles derriere li tous drois et at iij prisonniers devant li as genoulz en pure lor chemise tant seulement." 9. fol. 111 (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) King Charlemagne supervises construction of a building. Direction: "Comment le roy est tout droit et plusieurs nobles devant lui et devant li un chastiaulx et petites gens qui machonnant a tour, et en at un sur une eschiele et l'autre bas qui taille pierre." 10. fol. 119v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to sleeping King Charlemagne. Direction: "Comment le roy gist en un lit et saint jaques s'aparu tout droit devant lui a tout son bourdon." 11. fol. 127v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Two groups of foot soldiers, each with a king. Direction: "Deux grans ost de gens d'armes l'un encontre l'autre sans lanche. et en chescun des deux ost ij rois et ont tous escus et a chescun coste est un des rois devant. et deus contre est vu les bat gens." 12. fol. 134 (Louis the Pious, 1) Charlemagne presents young Louis to a bishop (to be crowned king of Aquitaine?). Direction: "Comment le roy est tout droit accompaignies de deux nobles devant li tient son petit fils par la main et le presente a ij evesque. et le premier le benit et at deriere un chappellain." 13. fol. 154 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 14. fol. 166 (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Army rides in a landscape. Direction: "Ci est une battaille a cheval les lances levee tenans escus et en at un tout davant qui s'en vat armes commes les aultres." 15. fol. 176v (Lothaire, 1) Enthroned king in discussion with bishops and nobles. Direction: "Un roy qui siet en une chere deriere li un sergent a masse et un aultre et par devant iij evesques tous drois et plusieurs aultres tous vestus." 16. fol. 194 (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. Direction: "Le roy seant en une chere tout en imis et l'archevesqui qui loint d'une ampolle sur la couronne. et plusieurs evesque deriere l'arch. et plusieurs nobles d'autre part." 17. fol. 214v (Louis VII, 1) Louis receives homage of a young man (no textual source). Direction: "Comment le roy siet en une chere et pluiseurs nobles deriere li et oussi devant lui. et at un jeune homme en genoulz sans chapperon acuj il prent la main." 18. fol. 226 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Coronation (illustrates Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 3). Direction: "Un roy seant en une cherre atout un mantiaulx fendu devant amains jointes. d'un coste plusieurs evesques tout drois et un archevesque audevant qui tient l'ampolle pardessus son cheff et d'aultre part pluiseurs nobles." 19. fol. 237v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Surrender of Tour or Le Mans to Philip. Direction: "Un roy tout arme sans heaume assis sur un peton. pluiseurs gens d'armes a tous leurs escus deriere li tous drois et iij hommes en genoulx nues les testes. en presentant leur espee par les pointes en criant merci." 20. fol. 252v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Pope Innocent III (haloed) places hand on head of kneeling man as clerics watch (Pope orders Amaury de Bene to cease heretical preaching ?). Direction: "Le pape seant en une haulte chere engourdinee devant lequel il at un homme agnulie sur lequel il met sa main sur sa teste et est vestu d'une house et devant ledit pape at pluiseurs clers vestus de housses avec bonnets sur les testes." 21. fol. 268v (Saint Louis, 1) Coronation (illustrates Saint Louis, 2). Direction: "Le roy seant en une chere aiant un mantiaulx les

mains jointe .a. ij costeli ij evesques desquelx li un tient une ampolle et l'autre met main a la couronne qui est sur sa teste. et d'un coste et d'autre pluiseurs clercs et nobles." 22. fol. 302 (Philip III, 1) Battle. Direction: "Un roy qui se combat atout son ost contre un ost des sarrazins et les desconfist et at pluiseurs mors." 23. fol. 359v (Philip of Valois, 1) Barons discuss royal succession. Direction: "Pluiseurs clers a housses bourgeois et nobles qui font maniere de parler ensamble et de disputer." 24. fol. 396 (John the Good, 1) Coronation of John the Good and Bonne of Luxembourg. Direction: "Un roy une royne seant en ij cheres et a main jointes [trimmed] et plusieurs et plusieurs [sic ] evesques a un coste [trimmed]." 25. fol. 440 (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V. Direction: "Un roy et une royne seant sur un siege . . . archevesque et la royne. . . . "

STYLE: Four artists. I: fols. 1, 2, 4, 32, 54v, 70, 93v, 104, 111, 119v, 127v, 134, 176v, 194, 214v, 226, 237v, 252v, 302, 359, 396, 440. II (Second artist of B.N. fr. 823): fols. 154. III: fols. 154, 166. IV: fol. 268v.

PROVENANCE: This manuscript was listed in Philip the Good's inventory in 1467 as, "Unes autres croniques de France, couvert de cuir vermeil caduque, historiée de blanc et noir à deux coulombes chacune page; le second feuillet après la table dist chasser les plus grans ennemis et le dernier, filz et les autres ."

REFERENCES: Barrois, Bibliothèque prototypographique , 205 no. 1411; Jacques Mangaert, Catalogue descriptif et raisonné des manuscripts de la Bibliothèque de Valencienne (Paris, 1860), 512–16; Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts, Catalogue général . . . Départements , 25:442.

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Hs. 2547
Grandes Chroniques de France (from life of Philip Augustus to 1380)

COLLATION: 1(1)8–26(194)8; 27(202)2. Incipits: On fol. 1, contemporary foliation begins with the Roman numeral CC. fol. 1: blank; fol. 2: en ton Regald mais . . . ; fol. 3: non avant qu'il en . . . ; fol. 203: le jeudi ensuivant par. . . . Explicit: fol. 203: . . . grant foison du prisonniers. Cy finissent les chroniques du Roy Charles Cinquiesime.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 35v (Saint Louis, 1) placed in margin: Coronation. 2. fol. 75v (Philip IV, 1) Homage of Edward I of England to Philip IV.

STYLE: Principal artist of B.N. fr. 823.

REFERENCE: H. J. Hermann, Englische und Französische Handschriften des XIV Jahrhundert , in Die westeuropaischen Handschriften (Leipzig, 1936), 7:95–6.

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Hs. 2564
Grandes Chroniques de France (from origins to 1380)

COLLATION: Contemporary foliation within brackets. 1(1[1])8, 2nd excised; 2(8[9])8–44(344[346])8; 45(352[354])8, 8th lacks; 46(359[365]–361[361]3; 47(362[363])8, 1st and 4th lack; 48(368[372])8–54(416[420])8; 55(424[428])8, 7th lacks; 56(431[436])8–62(479[484])8; 63(487[488])4; 64(491[492])10; 65(501[502])8, last two gatherings contain a table of contents. Incipits: fol. 1: R: Ce sont les croniques. . . . T: C'il que ceste . . . ; fol. 2[3] (second folio of chronicle): Eneas qui resu . . . ; fol. 3[4]: gent s'enfui . . . ; fol. 490[491]: de france. . . . Explicit: fol. 490[491]: . . . foison de biens.

MINIATURES: 1. fol. 1 (Prologue) Monk writing. 2. folio lacks after fol. 1 (I, 1) four parts on recto; (I, 2 or 3) on verso, offsets. 3. fol. 3 (I, 4) Coronation of Pharamond. 4. 5v (I, 10) King Childeric's three visions. 5. fol. 8v (I, 15) Coronation of Clovis. 6. fol. 11v (I, 20) Baptism of Clovis. 7. fol. 15 (II, 1) Four sons of Clovis enthroned. 8. fol. 24 (II, 14) Queen Clotilda prays in the church of Saint-Martin at Tours. 9. fol. 34 (III, 1) King Chilperic strangles Queen Galswintha as she sleeps. 10. fol. 37v (III, 4) Murder of Sigebert. 11. fol. 47v (III, 14) Bishops contradict King Chilperic's heresy. 12. fol. 58v (IV, 1) Two kings

watch seated King Guntram present a crown to King Childebert (Guntram designates his nephew Childebert as his heir). 13. fol. 71 (IV, 20) Torture of Queen Brunhilda. 14. fol. 74 (V, 1) Surrender of Saxons to Clotaire II. 15. fol. 78v (V, 6) King Clotaire II battles Duke Bertold. 16. fol. 83 (V, 12) Emperor Heraclius battles Saracens. 17. fol. 89v (V, 19) Archbishop of Poitiers arrives to hear about the vision of Dagobert's death seen by a hermit named John. 18. fol. 94 (V, 25) Coronation (Chilperic II, Clotaire IV, or Thierry IV). 19. fol. 95 (V, 26) Battle between king (sic ) Charles Martel and Saracens. 20. fol. 100v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 1) Emperor Charlemagne enthroned, holding globe and scepter (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. II). 21. fol. 111v (Charlemagne, Bk. I, 12+) Charlemagne's son, King Pepin, defeats the king of the Huns. 22. fol. 114 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 1) Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome. 23. fol. 118 (Charlemagne, Bk. II, 5) Surrender of messengers from Saragossa. 24. fol. 121v (Charlemagne, Bk. III, 1) Emperor Charlemagne receives the messenger of the Eastern emperor (illustrates Charlemagne, Bk. III, 5). 25. fol. 131v (Charlemagne, Bk. IV, 1) Saint James appears to sleeping Charlemagne. 26. fol. 140v (Charlemagne, Bk. V, 1) Emperor Charlemagne receives gifts sent by the Saracens. 27. fol. 148v (Louis the Pious, 1) Emperor Louis enthroned holding orb and scepter. 28. fol. 172 (Charles the Bald, 1) Battle of Fontenoy. 29. fol. 184v (Louis the Stammerer, 1) Coronation. 30. fol. 196 (Lothaire, 1) King enthroned. 31. fol. 199 (Hugh Capet, 1) Coronation. 32. fol. 203 (Henry, 1) Queen Constance and her sons at the deathbed of King Robert. 33. fol. 217v (Louis VI, 1) Coronation. 34. fol. 223v (Louis VI, 8) King Louis battles Count Thibaut. 35. fol. 249 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 1) Queen sleeps in bed; King Louis VII sits in a chair and holds his swaddled infant. 36. fol. 254v (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 12) Philip receives messengers from the Eastern emperor. 37. fol. 257 (Philip Augustus, Bk. I, 18) Philip speaks with the monks of Saint-Denis. 38. fol. 261v (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 1) Capture of Le Mans or Tours. 39. fol. 264 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 5) Ships arrive at Acre. 40. fol. 269 (Philip Augustus, Bk. II, 14) Capture of chateau of Aumale. 41. fol. 275v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 1) Amaury de Bene preaching. 42. fol. 279v (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 10) Battle of Bouvines. 43. fol. 283 (Philip Augustus, Bk. III, 14) Philip is knocked off his horse by foot soldiers with iron hooks. 44. fol. 287 (Louis VIII, 1) Coronation. 45. fol. 290 (Saint Louis, 1) Louis IX enthroned (illustrates Saint Louis, 2). 46. fol. 295v (Saint Louis, 23) Count Thibaut crowned king of Navarre. 47. fol. 301 (Saint Louis, 43) Louis IX receives messengers from Tartaria. 48. fol. 306v (Saint Louis, 60) Saint Louis receives messengers from Babylon. 49. fol. 312 (Saint Louis, 77) Louis IX, nimbed, washes the feet of the poor. 50. fol. 316 (Saint Louis, 91) Charles of Anjou crowned king of Sicily. 51. fol. 318v (Saint Louis, 98) Battle of Henry of Castile and Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily. 52. fol. 320 (Saint Louis, 105) Louis IX and army enter ships to go on a crusade. 53. fol. 323 (Philip III, 1) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, arrives at Tunis. 54. fol. 325 (Philip III, 7) Kings of Tunis and France make peace. 55. fol. 328 (Philip III, 25) Coronation of Philip III. 56. fol. 334v (Philip III, 35) Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, kneels before pope. 57. fol. 338v (Philip IV, 1) Edward I of England (no crown) pays homage to Philip. 58. fol. 340 (Philip IV, 6) Capture of Acre by the sultan of Babylon. 59. fol. 345 (Philip IV, 25) Philip IV and an archbishop lift nimbed Louis IX from his grave as bishops watch. 60. fol. 347 (Philip IV, 42) Battle of Courtrai. 61. fol. 349 (Philip IV, 47) King discussing with Cardinal Le Moine (illustrates Philip IV, 46). 62. fol. 350v (Philip IV, 54) Battle of a monk and the devil. 63. fol. 351v (Philip IV, 57) Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle. 64. fol. 358 (Philip IV, 69) Death of Henry, Holy Roman Emperor. 65. folio lacks after fol. 361[361] (Philip V, 1). 66. folio lacks after fol. 364[366] (Charles IV, 1). 67. fol. 407v (John the Good, 1) Coronation of John the Good and Jeanne of Burgundy. 68. fol. 413 (John the Good, 19) Battle of Poitiers. 69. fol. 428 (John the Good, 83) The regent, Charles, and Charles, king of Navarre, swear a truce. 70. fol. 437 (John the Good, 124) Treaty of Brétigny. 71. fol. 448v (Charles V, 1) Coronation of Charles V and Jeanne of Bourbon. 72. fol. 455 (Charles V, 16) Baptism of Charles, the future Charles VI.

STYLE: One artist.

PROVENANCE: Hermann notes the arms of the Montaigu family (d'argent à une croix d'azur cantonnée de quatre aigles au vol deployé de gueules becquées et membrées d'or ) on fols. 1, 5v, 8v, 15, 37v, 71, 74, 83, 89v, 223v, 249, 279v, 283, 287, 328, 334v, 349, 413. This book probably belonged to John of Montaigu, grand master of France under Charles VI. John of Montaigu was executed in 1409.

REFERENCES: Hermann, Englische und Französische , 7.2:96–109; L. Merlet, "Biographie de Jean de Montagu, Grand-Maître de France (1350-1409)," Bibliothèque de l'École de Chartes 13 (1852), 248–84.