Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Chroniques
France, Troyes (?) or, more probably, Paris, ca. 1412-1415
MS M.804 fol. 168v

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Jean Froissart: Chroniques, Book I, Chapter 215 -- Group of soldiers, two wearing surcoats, one raising pickaxe, all in full armor, attack French soldiers in full armor emerging from between rocky outcroppings.
Text describes battle of Brignais in April, 1361, in which Jacques de Bourbon was defeated.