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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, Flanders, in modern Belgium. The text of Froissart's Chronicles is preserved in more than 150 manuscript copies. This is one of the most lavishly illuminated examples, commissioned by Louis of Gruuthuse, a Flemish nobleman and bibliophile. Several leading Flemish illuminators worked on the miniatures.

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  • 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, Flanders, in modern Belgium. The text of Froissart's Chronicles is preserved in more than 150 manuscript copies. This is one of the most lavishly illuminated examples, commissioned by Louis of Gruuthuse, a Flemish nobleman and bibliophile. Several leading Flemish illuminators worked on the miniatures. The four volumes are now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris as BnF, MSS Français 2643–6, and contain 110 miniatures of various sizes painted by some of the best artists of the day. The page size is approximately 44 × 33 cm, with miniatures of various sizes, from three-quarter–page and half-page, to historiated initials. The French text is in two columns and there is extensive marginal decoration of scrolling stems and other plant motifs, with some human and animal figures among them. (en)
  • Le manuscrit de Gruuthuse est un manuscrit illuminé richement illustré en quatre volumes et contenant un texte français issu des Chroniques de Jean Froissart. Ces manuscrits sont actuellement conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France sous les cotes Français 2643 à 2646. (fr)
  • De Kroniek van Froissart van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse is een kopie van de Kroniek van Froissart in vier volumes die gemaakt werd voor Lodewijk van Gruuthuse in het midden van de jaren 1470. De vier verluchte handschriften worden nu bewaard in de Bibliothèque nationale de France in Parijs met als signatuur Manuscrits, Fr. 2643-2646. (nl)
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  • Le manuscrit de Gruuthuse est un manuscrit illuminé richement illustré en quatre volumes et contenant un texte français issu des Chroniques de Jean Froissart. Ces manuscrits sont actuellement conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France sous les cotes Français 2643 à 2646. (fr)
  • De Kroniek van Froissart van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse is een kopie van de Kroniek van Froissart in vier volumes die gemaakt werd voor Lodewijk van Gruuthuse in het midden van de jaren 1470. De vier verluchte handschriften worden nu bewaard in de Bibliothèque nationale de France in Parijs met als signatuur Manuscrits, Fr. 2643-2646. (nl)
  • 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, Flanders, in modern Belgium. The text of Froissart's Chronicles is preserved in more than 150 manuscript copies. This is one of the most lavishly illuminated examples, commissioned by Louis of Gruuthuse, a Flemish nobleman and bibliophile. Several leading Flemish illuminators worked on the miniatures. (en)
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  • Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse (en)
  • Chroniques de Froissart (manuscrit de Gruuthuse) (fr)
  • Kroniek van Froissart (Lodewijk van Gruuthuse) (nl)
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