Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Chronicle of Flanders
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1490
MS M.435 fol. 224r

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Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, wearing hat with liripipe, collar of Golden Fleece, holding sword with right hand, as soldier wearing armor and tunic decorated with heraldry. Standing below ogee arch decorated with crockets, in opening of aedicule. Urban landscape in background. Below, lion on hind feet, right front paw on escutcheon decorated with heraldry of Philip the Good, below helm surmounted by fleur-de-lis. In upper and lower margins, motto MON IOYE AULTRE NARAY.