Illuminated illustrations of Froissart; Selected from the ms. in the British museum

PLATE II.

Reading edition

THE MARRIAGE OF KING LOUIS OF SICILY, SON OF THE DUKE OF ANJOU, TO THE DAUGHTER OF KING PEDRO OF ARRAGON.

This is one of the most carefully executed pictures in the volume; and the arrangement of the figures at the sides, combined with the impressive and characteristic simplicity of the central group, could scarcely be surpassed by modern artists; indeed, in symmetrical arrangement, they appear to be borrowing ideas from these illuminations of the middle ages, as may be perceived in some recent modern pictures. The account of this marriage is omitted in some of the MSS. of Froissart.

Illustration from Illuminated illustrations of Froissart; Selected from the ms. in the British museum.

Proclamation of the renewal of the truce between the Kings of France and England, after the King of France’s recovery.