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Chronicles of the Portuguese kings Duarte and João II
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Manuscripts, Renaissance--Portugal--1500-1550
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Portugal--History--15th century
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John II, King of Portugal, 1455-1495
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Duarte, King of Portugal, 1391-1438
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Extent: 71 leaves, bound : vellum ; 41 cm.
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The Portuguese text is written in a gothic rotunda book-hand in 2 columns in brown ink, rubrics and page-headlines in red, with highlighting in blue.
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Many major initial letters are in black with pen-work decoration or historiation.
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Bound in 19th-century purple grained morocco by William Townsend & Son of Sheffield.
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Sir William Bragge (sale, 7 June 1876, lot 151); Sir Francis Cook; Wyndham F. Cook.
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Bequest of Philip Hofer, 1984.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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