A CHRONICLE OF THE CRUSADES

A CHRONICLE OF THE CRUSADES
SÉBASTIEN MAMEROT Book Number: 77255 Product format: Hardback

Own your own beautifully illuminated codices of the Late Middle Ages. Completed circa 1474, Sébastien Mamerot's lavishly illustrated manuscript is the only contemporary document to describe several centuries of French crusades, when successive kings tried to seize the Holy Land. Jean Colombe, the medieval illuminator best known for his work on the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, is the principal artist. Les Passages d'Outremer (The Expeditions to Overseas) comprises 277 parchment folios, illustrated by Colombe and the finest calligraphers of the medieval era, and now resides in the French national library. This new edition comprises a complete translation of the manuscript text, illustrated with 66 exquisite colourful miniatures by Jean Colombe, and their explanations. The battles, burials, coronations and processions depicted in the illustrations come to life before our eyes and recreate this centuries-long campaign of religious fervor and epic journey. It traces the wars between the Christians and Muslims as they fought to control Jerusalem. Europe was united as men and women became soldiers of the cross. See the great city of Damascus in Syria Minor (aka Phoenicia of Lebanon) founded by Damas and the arrivals of the Crusaders in 1148. 5.5" x 7.7", 760 pages. Colour. New from Taschen.
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