Date:1440

Date Quality:ca

Dimensions:1036.3 cm Length xUnknown

Type:Chronicles

Orientation:V

Shelfmark:MS Pb. Med. 32

Provenance:France

Completion:C

Contents:Long scroll records the history of the world from Creation through the year 1380, with fifty-seven miniatures illuminating the text. It was created in a Loire Valley workshop around the year 1440 and is one of the earliest known copies of La Chronique Universelle.

Bibliography:Davis, Lisa Fagin. “Scrolling through History: La Chronique Universelle, Boston Public Library MS Pb. Med. 32.” In Secular Sacred: 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, edited by Nancy Netzer, 43–47. Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2006.

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