NICOLAS DE HOUSSEMAINE,
Gestes des premiers comtes de Dammartin


In French, with some Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment


France, Paris, between 1500 and 1503


6 large miniatures by the Master of the Paris Entries (Paris, active 1490/95 to 1520s) and the Master of Etienne Poncher


Binding (upper cover)
 
This is the presentation copy for Jean de Chabannes, count of Dammartin, of a highly personalized text, a chronicle composed to glorify his noble lineage and place him on the level of his “cousins,” the kings of France. Accompanied by a dedicatory prologue giving the name of the author (absent in the other copy of the text), the manuscript is mostly by the Master of the Paris Entrees, an artist-stationer who produced manuscripts in series for figures at the royal court. In a remarkably rare Renaissance velvet heraldic binding, the manuscript constitutes a significant addition to the lavish, flamboyantly egocentric manuscript collection of Jean de Chabannes.
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