9242-4).
Also Jean Mansel's "Fleur des Histoires" in three grand folios (Nos.
9231-3), written about 1475. The frontispiece to the "Chroniques" shows
the Duke Philip with his son the Count of Charolais receiving the work
from the author, perhaps the best illumination in all three volumes.
Another (9245), the Book of the Seven Sages of Rome, is an example of
the last quarter of the fourteenth century. Still another (9246), the
History of St. Graal, or of the Round Table, is dated 1480. A Missal and
Pontifical (9216, 9217) shows miniatures dating about 1475.
But other public libraries also possess admirable examples. The Imperial
Library at Vienna possesses a most masterly production in the fragments
of a folio Chronicle of Jerusalem (No. 2533), in which both figures and
architectural details are most delicately and minutely finished, so that
the miniatures form a most valuable treasury of costumes, armour, and
architecture, correctly drawn and exquisitely painted. The figure of
Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, shows the pointed toes which Anne of Bohemia
is said to have introduced into England. At Vienna, also, is the richly
illuminated History of G?rard de Roussillon in French (No. 2549). At
Paris we find the "Champion des Dames" (No.
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