The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274 -1422
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Hardcover. Large 8vo., 312 pp. 123 black and white illustrations and eight plates in full color. First print. Includes an exhaustive catalogue of the manuscripts [and the libraries where they are located], appendices on the artist, surviving manuscripts and their provenance, complete notes, bibliography and index. California Studies in the History of Art XXVIII. The Grandes Chroniques is a vernacular history of the medieval French monarchs prepared by the monks of Saint-Denis, the official royal historiographers. Of the copies made for a variety of royal and courtly patrons, approximately 130 remain. Here Hedeman provides the first critical and comprehensive study of the chronicle's illustrations. Near Fine with a bit of light foxing along the edges in a Fine dust jacket. Item #901202602
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