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Two knights fighting, c1415. Their armour includes scale, mail and plate, which in the case of the man on the right, has proved inadequate.
Shelfmark ID: Cotton Nero E II part 1. Folio No: 1.
Location :British Library, London, Great Britain
Photo Credit : HIP / Art Resource, NY
Image Reference : ART317442
Keywords :
15th century CE . British Library/London/Great Britain . Chain Mail . Fighting Scene . Gothic (1150-1500) . Illuminated Manuscript . Knight
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Cotton MS Nero E II Les grandes chroniques de France, to AD 1388 (imperfect) (1st quarter of the 15th century)
British Library: Western Manuscripts Cotton MS Nero E II
1st quarter of the 15th century
French; Latin
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Condition: outer edges of leaves damaged by fire in 1731
Materials: parchment
Dimensions: approximately 505 x 345 mm
Foliation: fos. i + 487; i (f. i: early modern endleaf) + 487 (part I, ff. 1-245; part II, ff. 1-242)
Binding: British Museum 1847, bound in two volumes
Scope and Content
Language(s): French; Latin (part II, 234v–237r)
Previously owned by: Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631)
Meiss, Millard, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Boucicaut Master (London, 1968), pp. 92–95