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[15th century painted manuscript]. [CHRONOLOGIE DES PAPES ET…
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[15th century painted manuscript]. [CHRONOLOGIE DES PAPES ET…
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Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
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Description
[15th century painted manuscript]. [CHRONOLOGIE DES PAPES ET DES EMPEREURS (depuis Saint Pierre jusqu'à Eugène IV et de Jules César à Albert II)].
Small folio (190 x 280 mm) of 36 unnumbered leaves on strong vellum, brown calf, very ornate ribbed spine, small crowned CG figure in the centre of the boards (17th century binding).
A very fine handwritten chronology probably produced in Germany in the first half of the 15th century. Each page is illustrated with figures drawn in ink and gouache in blue, red, yellow and green depicting busts of each of the 339 PERSONS - IN 312 FRAMED FRAMES - Popes, Emperors or Kings who succeeded one another from the foundation of the Church to the date of this manuscript, which can be dated to the end of the first half of the 15th century. The last pope mentioned was Eugene IV, elected in 1431 and who died in Rome in 1447.
Each figure is accompanied by a short note in Latin, calligraphed in Batard, giving the name of the person and the length of his reign.
The upper half of the pages is reserved for depictions of Popes, tiara at the head, triple cross in hand, while the lower half shows Kings and Emperors accompanied by their coats of arms and the insignia of their power.
The figure of Christ opens the chronology and is shown on the first page alongside Julius Caesar, crowned and dressed like a 15th-century lord.
It is most probably the work of a monk, whom an old note pasted at the head says was originally from the Netherlands (?).
A fine copy whose colours have retained their freshness; only the last two leaves, partly white, bear a rectangular cut in the corner without affecting the figures. A vellum leaf was placed at the head of the volume in the 19th century to serve as a title; it is decorated with a coat of arms bearing the motto "IN DEO SPES UNICA".
Provenance: Louis Bosch (1700-1764) with his bookplate. A famous collector, the catalogue of the sale of his library was published in Louvain in 1765.
The work was later acquired by the Vinck family of Wesel.
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About the sale
ANCIENT BOOKS - MANUSCRITS - MODERN BOOKS - Chronological classification from the 14th to the 20th century
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Auction time
06/18/2026 at 2:00 PM
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