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JEAN WAUQUELIN (fl.1428-1452). Chroniques de Hainaut , as abbreviated by JEAN MANSEL (1400/1-1473/4) for his Fleur des Histoires , in French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Auction 13.06.2002
13 Jun 2002
Estimate
£100,000 - £150,000
ca. US$148,342 - US$222,513
Price realised:
£314,650
ca. US$466,758
Auction archive: Lot number 1

JEAN WAUQUELIN (fl.1428-1452). Chroniques de Hainaut , as abbreviated by JEAN MANSEL (1400/1-1473/4) for his Fleur des Histoires , in French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM

Auction 13.06.2002
13 Jun 2002
Estimate
£100,000 - £150,000
ca. US$148,342 - US$222,513
Price realised:
£314,650
ca. US$466,758
Beschreibung:

JEAN WAUQUELIN (fl.1428-1452). Chroniques de Hainaut , as abbreviated by JEAN MANSEL (1400/1-1473/4) for his Fleur des Histoires , in French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Flanders, probably Bruges, c.1475] 372 x 275mm. 144 leaves: apparently originally 1-13 8, 14 9(?ix a singleton), 15-17 8, 18 7(of 8, lacking viii) and lacking two further gatherings at end, original foliation in red, two columns of 31 lines written in brown ink in a lettre bâtarde between four verticals and 32 horizontals ruled in pink, justification: 246 x 76-12-76mm, rubrics in red, text capitals touched yellow, paraphs alternately burnished gold flourished black and blue flourished red, three- to five-line initials of burnished gold against grounds and infills of blue and dark pink decorated with white penwork and many with sprays of blue and pink flowers on hairline tendrils into the margin, line-endings of pink and blue and sometimes gold, EIGHT LARGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES the first accompanied by a full-page border of sprays of fruit, flowers and blue and gold acanthus interspersed with gold dots on hairline tendrils, NINE COLUMN-WIDE MINIATURES (spots or stains in margins of a few folios, the darkest in the lower margins of 85v and 86, some wear and smudging to border of opening folio, rubbing to the legs of two soldiers on f.71v and the initial on f.48). Gold-tooled green morocco, sides panelled with the Botfield arms at the centre, wide turn-ins with elaborate border, vellum doublures, gilt edges, by C. Smith stamped on front flyleaf (some scuffing of lower edge of upper cover). THE ONLY INDEPENDENT COPY OF THE CHRONIQUES KNOWN IN PRIVATE OWNERSHIP: EXCEPTIONALLY COMBINING THE ABBREVIATED VERSION OF THE TEXT WITH A RICH CYCLE OF ILLUSTRATION PROVENANCE: 1. The style of the illumination suggests that the book was made in Bruges, where there was a thriving market in luxuriously illustrated secular texts. 2. Neat marginal annotations in various 15th- and 16th-century hands show that the book remained in the southern Netherlands for some time. 3. Beriah Botfield: his coat of arms on the binding. CONTENT: Jean Wauquelin (fl.1428-1452), Chroniques de Hainaut , as abbreviated by Jean Mansel (1400/1-1473/4) for his Fleur des Histoires , opening Cy commencent les croniques en brief de hainau quon nomina jadis le royaume de belges. Et premierement le prologue: Pour aucunem[en]t avoir cognoissa[n]ce des histoires et daucuns autres pays et citez prochains et voisins.... : Volume I, Books 1-7 ff.1-120v; Volume II, Chapters 1-9, lacking final seven chapters ff.121-144. Jean Wauquelin of Mons began his three-volume translation of the Latin Annales Hannoniae by Jacques de Guise (d.1399) in 1446. In 1447 Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, personally approved the text of the first volume, and the final volume was delivered to him by Wauquelin's widow in 1453. Volume I of this dedication copy (Brussels, KBR, Mss 9242-9244) opens with one of the most famous miniatures of the 15th century, attributed to Rogier van der Weyden showing the presentation of the book to Philip: see C. Van den Bergen-Pantens ed., Les Chroniques de Hainaut ou les Ambitions d'un Prince Bourguignon , Turnhout, 2000, for this and other manuscripts of the text. Philip's seizure of the counties of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland from his cousin, Jacqueline of Bavaria, had been finalised in 1433 so that he was directly concerned with the long traditions of Hainault, especially when Wauquelin's prologue cast him as the legitimate heir of the Trojan founders. Jean Mansel at Hesdin produced the first version of his popular universal history, the Fleur des Histoires , in 1446-1451. Two copies of this include an abbreviation of Wauquelin's Chroniques de Hainaut : one owned by Philip the Good (KBR ms 9231, vol. I) and one made for Antoine de Crèvecoeur (vol. III sold Sotheby's, 17 June 1977, lot 59). Otherwise, the Hainault chronicle is only found in the longer second version of the Fleur des

Auction archive: Lot number 1
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jun 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

JEAN WAUQUELIN (fl.1428-1452). Chroniques de Hainaut , as abbreviated by JEAN MANSEL (1400/1-1473/4) for his Fleur des Histoires , in French, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Flanders, probably Bruges, c.1475] 372 x 275mm. 144 leaves: apparently originally 1-13 8, 14 9(?ix a singleton), 15-17 8, 18 7(of 8, lacking viii) and lacking two further gatherings at end, original foliation in red, two columns of 31 lines written in brown ink in a lettre bâtarde between four verticals and 32 horizontals ruled in pink, justification: 246 x 76-12-76mm, rubrics in red, text capitals touched yellow, paraphs alternately burnished gold flourished black and blue flourished red, three- to five-line initials of burnished gold against grounds and infills of blue and dark pink decorated with white penwork and many with sprays of blue and pink flowers on hairline tendrils into the margin, line-endings of pink and blue and sometimes gold, EIGHT LARGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES the first accompanied by a full-page border of sprays of fruit, flowers and blue and gold acanthus interspersed with gold dots on hairline tendrils, NINE COLUMN-WIDE MINIATURES (spots or stains in margins of a few folios, the darkest in the lower margins of 85v and 86, some wear and smudging to border of opening folio, rubbing to the legs of two soldiers on f.71v and the initial on f.48). Gold-tooled green morocco, sides panelled with the Botfield arms at the centre, wide turn-ins with elaborate border, vellum doublures, gilt edges, by C. Smith stamped on front flyleaf (some scuffing of lower edge of upper cover). THE ONLY INDEPENDENT COPY OF THE CHRONIQUES KNOWN IN PRIVATE OWNERSHIP: EXCEPTIONALLY COMBINING THE ABBREVIATED VERSION OF THE TEXT WITH A RICH CYCLE OF ILLUSTRATION PROVENANCE: 1. The style of the illumination suggests that the book was made in Bruges, where there was a thriving market in luxuriously illustrated secular texts. 2. Neat marginal annotations in various 15th- and 16th-century hands show that the book remained in the southern Netherlands for some time. 3. Beriah Botfield: his coat of arms on the binding. CONTENT: Jean Wauquelin (fl.1428-1452), Chroniques de Hainaut , as abbreviated by Jean Mansel (1400/1-1473/4) for his Fleur des Histoires , opening Cy commencent les croniques en brief de hainau quon nomina jadis le royaume de belges. Et premierement le prologue: Pour aucunem[en]t avoir cognoissa[n]ce des histoires et daucuns autres pays et citez prochains et voisins.... : Volume I, Books 1-7 ff.1-120v; Volume II, Chapters 1-9, lacking final seven chapters ff.121-144. Jean Wauquelin of Mons began his three-volume translation of the Latin Annales Hannoniae by Jacques de Guise (d.1399) in 1446. In 1447 Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, personally approved the text of the first volume, and the final volume was delivered to him by Wauquelin's widow in 1453. Volume I of this dedication copy (Brussels, KBR, Mss 9242-9244) opens with one of the most famous miniatures of the 15th century, attributed to Rogier van der Weyden showing the presentation of the book to Philip: see C. Van den Bergen-Pantens ed., Les Chroniques de Hainaut ou les Ambitions d'un Prince Bourguignon , Turnhout, 2000, for this and other manuscripts of the text. Philip's seizure of the counties of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland from his cousin, Jacqueline of Bavaria, had been finalised in 1433 so that he was directly concerned with the long traditions of Hainault, especially when Wauquelin's prologue cast him as the legitimate heir of the Trojan founders. Jean Mansel at Hesdin produced the first version of his popular universal history, the Fleur des Histoires , in 1446-1451. Two copies of this include an abbreviation of Wauquelin's Chroniques de Hainaut : one owned by Philip the Good (KBR ms 9231, vol. I) and one made for Antoine de Crèvecoeur (vol. III sold Sotheby's, 17 June 1977, lot 59). Otherwise, the Hainault chronicle is only found in the longer second version of the Fleur des

Auction archive: Lot number 1
Auction:
Datum:
13 Jun 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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