Chroniques de Hainaut
Illustration — Rogier van der Weyden's Jean Wauquelin presenting his 'Chroniques de Hainaut' to Philip the Good. Frontispiece miniature of the Chronicles of Hainaut. (Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, Manuscripts, MS. The Chronicles of Hainaut is an illuminated manuscript in three volumes, tracing the history of the county of Hainaut up to the end of the 14th century.
Chroniques de Hainaut
Rogier van der Weyden · Digitised manuscript, Royal Library of Belgium, f11 · Public domain
- Creator
- Jacques de Guyse · Rogier van der Weyden · Master of Wauquelin's Alexander · Willem Vrelant
- Date
- 1440
- Language
- Middle French
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- Royal Library of Belgium
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Illustration — Rogier van der Weyden's Jean Wauquelin presenting his 'Chroniques de Hainaut' to Philip the Good. Frontispiece miniature of the Chronicles of Hainaut. (Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, Manuscripts, MS. The Chronicles of Hainaut is an illuminated manuscript in three volumes, tracing the history of the county of Hainaut up to the end of the 14th century.
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Its text was produced around 1446-1450 by Jean Wauquelin as a French translation of Annales historiae illustrium principum Hannoniæ, a three-volume Latin work produced by Jacques de Guise around 1390-1396. It was made for Philip the Good of Burgundy and is now in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels. Its frontispiece is a 1447 miniature by Rogier van der Weyden showing Waquelin kneeling to present the book to Philip. Beside Philip is his thirteen or fourteen year old son Charles the Bold. To the left, the figure in blue is chancellor Nicolas Rolin and the one in red is Jean Chevrot, bishop of Tournai. The group of people to the right are eight members of the Order of the Golden Fleece, founded by Philip in 1430. Ten other miniatures (f.75, 175v, 267, 274v, 277, 281, 284v, 286v, 291) are attributed to the Alexandre de Wauquelin Master.
It is recorded as the work of Jacques de Guyse, Rogier van der Weyden and Master of Wauquelin's Alexander. Recorded constituent parts are Jean Wauquelin presenting his 'Chroniques de Hainaut' to Philip the Good. The record gives 1440 as its date of establishment or first appearance. It is recorded in the collection of Royal Library of Belgium.
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1440
Chroniques de Hainaut created.
1440
Chroniques de Hainaut is recorded from 1440.
1979
Les Miniatures des chroniques de Hainaut (15ème siècle) (1979) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
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- 1.Christiane Raynaud, Miracles, prodiges et merveilles dans « Les Chroniques de Hainaut», in: Actes des congrès de la Société des historiens médiévistes de l'enseignement supérieur public, 1994, volume 25, nr. 25, pp. 271-291, p. 272-273.
- 2.Dikwijls afgekort tot: Annales historiae illustrium principum Hannoniæ.
- 3.Letterlijk opgenomen in de proloog van Wauquelin: ‘il me fuist commandé comme il est, de par mon tres redoubté et tres puissant seigneur, monseigneur Philippe par la grace de Dieu duc de Bourgogne...’ Ms. 9242, fol. 1-2.
- 4.Pascal Schandel, Opdrachtscènes aan het hof van de Bourgondische Hertogen in: Vlaamse Miniaturen, 1404-1482, ed. Bernard Bousmanne en Thierry Delcourt, Davidsfonds, 2011, pp. 76-78.
- 5.KBR Museum. Gearchiveerd op 28 april 2023.
- 6.Pascal Schandel, 2011. p. 66 noot 3.
- 7.Thomas Kren, Scot McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, 2003, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, p. 91-93.
- 8.Pascal Schandel, 2011, pp. 66-69.
- 9.Wenen, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, ms. 2549.
- 10.Parijs, BnF, ms. fr. 942.
- 11.Ook van Buren (1983) is van mening dat het kopieerwerk en de verluchting tegelijkertijd plaatsvonden; noot 11 in: Christiane Raynaud, 1994, p. 272.
- 12.Pascal Schandel, 2011, p.69.
- 13.Hij (Guillaume Wyelant) werd in juli 1468 betaald voor 60 miniaturen in het tweede volume van de Chroniques de Hainaut. Thomas Kren, Scot McKendrick, 2003, p. 119.
- 14.Hanno Wijsman, Gebonden weelde. Productie van geïllustreerde handschriften en het adellijk boekenbezit in de Bourgondische Nederlanden (1400-1550), doctoraatsverhandeling – Leiden, 2003, pp. 287-296.
- 15.Pascal Schandel, 2011, p. 70.
- 16.Van vijf is het overduidelijk, van twee ziet men slechts een klein stukje van de ketting die ze om de hals dragen.
- 17.Pascal Schandel, 2011, p. 72.
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Chroniques de Hainaut is classified as illuminated manuscript and version, edition or translation. It comprises Jean Wauquelin presenting his 'Chroniques de Hainaut' to Philip the Good. Holdings and surviving copies.
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