Froissart Of Louis Of Gruuthuse (Bn F Fr 2643-6)
The Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse (BnF Fr 2643-6) is a heavily illustrated deluxe illuminated manuscript in four volumes, containing a French text of Froissart's Chronicles, written and illuminated in the first half of the 1470s in Bruges in Flanders, in modern Belgium. The text of Froissart's Chronicles is preserved in more than 100 manuscript copies. This is one of the most lavishly illuminated examples, commissioned by Louis of Gruuthuse, a Flemish nobleman and bibliophile. The four volumes are now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris as BnF, MS Francais 2643-6, and contain 112 miniatures of various sizes painted by some of the best Brugeois artists of the day.
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