ID: 700008674 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008674	Record Type: Movable Work
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Chroniques (Book Three) (illuminated manuscript; Illuminators: Master of the Soane Josephus and assistant (Fl...; around 1480-1483; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 83.MP.150; Ms. Ludwig XIII 7)

Note: 366 folios + 1 flyleaf, 1 three-quarter-page miniatures, 24 half-page miniatures, 39 one-column miniatures. The Getty Museum's manuscript contains the third of four books; its 730 pages cover only the period from 1358 to 1389, an indication of the level of detail Froissart sought to impart. The most famous historical record of Europe in the 1300s, the monumental Chronicle was written in French (Chroniques) by Jean Froissart and recounts the major political and military events from around 1322 to 1410. Focusing on the rivalry between England and France, the Chronicle is a basic resource for the study of the Hundred Years' War. Froissart also described the affairs of other realms, though largely as they related to the complex network of overlapping and shifting alliances around England and France. The Museum's volume, from about 1480, shows the lasting esteem that the Chronicle enjoyed: new copies of the text were still being made about seventy years after the author's death. The book was made in Flanders, perhaps in Bruges. The choice of subjects for the sixty-four miniatures strongly emphasizes events involving the English, evidence perhaps that the book was produced for the English market. Indeed, King Edward IV, who built the first royal library in England, may have commissioned it.

Titles:

Chroniques (Book Three) (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined,U,U)

Chronicles (Book Three) (C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)

Ms. Ludwig XIII 7 (C,U,MD,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: volume

Work Types:

illuminated manuscript [300265483] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by conditions of production>, manuscripts (documents))

chronicle [300026361]

..... (Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>, histories (literary genre))

book [300028051]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: around 1480-1483

Creator Display:

Illuminators: Master of the Soane Josephus and assistant (Flemish, active about 1475 - 1485); Master of Edward IV (Flemish, active about 1470 - 1490); and others. Author: Jean Froissart; Master of the Getty Froissart (Flemish, active about 1475 - 1485) [preferred,VP]

author Froissart, Jean (French historian and chronicler, ca. 1337-ca. 1410) [500063744]

illuminator Master of the Getty Froissart (Flemish illuminator, active around 1475-1485) [500356983]

illuminator Master of the Soane Josephus (Flemish illuminator, active ca. 1475-ca. 1485) [500354861]

illuminator Master of Edward IV (Flemish illuminator, active 1479) [500001586]

illuminator Master of the White Inscriptions (Flemish illuminator, active 1480-1489) Qualifier: formerly attributed to [500120571]

illuminator Master of the Copenhagen Caesar (Flemish illuminator, active around 1475-1485) Qualifier: probably by [500356984]

illuminator Master of the London Wavrin (Flemish illuminator, active around 1470-1485) [500356985]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 83.MP.150; Ms. Ludwig XIII 7

Other: Creation: Brugge [7007867] West-Vlaanderen (province), Flanders (region (administrative division)), Belgium (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink on parchment bound between pasteboard covered with green morocco

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gold leaf [300264831]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))

	gilt paint [300343596]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, metallic paint)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	pasteboard (paper) [300162474]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by form>)

	morocco (leather) [300227857]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material, leather, <leather by process>, vegetable-tanned leather, vegetable-tanned goatskin)

	parchment (animal material) [300011851]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

Dimensions: leaves: 48 x 35 cm (18 7/8 x 13 3/4 in.)

Cultures:

Flemish (preferred)

General Subject:

history and legend (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Chroniques [901000933]
	.....((Literary works: History, Biographies, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	Latin (language) [300388693]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), language-related concepts, <languages and writing systems>, <languages and writing systems by specific type>, <temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Secondary Inscription: Inscribed first flyleaf, verso, center, in pencil, in a post-medieval hand, "33" (encircled). Inscribed third flyleaf at the end, lower right, in pencil, in a twentieth-century hand, "1-24 8, 25 4, 26-45 8, 46 10 [second # in each pair in superscript] = 366 leaves, the last two blanks / coll. compl. HPK per JSK x 168" (collation by John S. Kebabian for H.P. Kraus). Inscribed third flyleaf at the end, lower right, in pencil, in a twentieth-century hand, "KCO.29 / L (? partially effaced)". Markings: Label: Sticker inside front cover, upper left corner, incribed in ink: "3.234" (Rothschild inventory number?).

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Chroniques (Book Three)	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Chronicles (Book Three)	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Ms. Ludwig XIII 7	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-) http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=4817

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)