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PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment
CONTENT: Leaf with full-length portraits of René d’Anjou and John II, King of Aragon.
DECORATION: On recto full length portrait of René d’Anjou with shield of arms (Hungary, Naples, Jerusalem, Anjou, Bar), supported by a brown antelope; inscription ‘Renhart von gots / gnaden khünig von / Cecilia hertzog von / Kallabria’. On verso John II, duke of Aragon with shield of arms (Navarre, Evreux, Aragon, Castille and Leon), supported by grey antelope; inscription ‘Hanns von Gottes gnaden / khünig von Navern [Navarra] / und von Arrogon (sic) hertzog / von Nemons (sic) / und von Munblanckh / Graf von FibbagorSa [Ribagorza] / Herr der Statt Ballager’.
History note: William Horatio Crawford of Lakelands (1812 – 1888); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 11 April 1961, lot 121; Francis Wormald (1904 – 1972); his gift, 1961.
Method of acquisition: Given (1961) by Wormald, Francis
15th Century, Late
Circa
1490
CE
-
Circa
1499
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Page
Height 220 mm
Width 152 mm
Accession number: MS 1-1961
Primary reference Number: 170631
Project ID: 120
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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