The Chronicles of Hainaut is an

illuminated manuscript An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared manuscript, document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as marginalia, borders and Miniature (illuminated manuscript), miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Churc ...

in three volumes, tracing the history of the county of Hainaut up to the end of the 14th century. Its text was produced around 1446-1450 by Jean Wauquelin as a French translation of , a three-volume Latin work produced by Jacques de Guise around 1390-1396. It was made for Philip the Good of Burgundy and is now in the

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. Its frontispiece is a 1447 miniature by

Rogier van der Weyden Rogier van der Weyden (; 1399 or 140018 June 1464), initially known as Roger de le Pasture (), was an Early Netherlandish painting, early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commis ...

showing Waquelin kneeling to present the book to Philip. Beside Philip is his thirteen or fourteen year old son Charles the Bold. To the left, the figure in blue is chancellor Nicolas Rolin and the one in red is Jean Chevrot, bishop of Tournai. The group of people to the right are eight members of the

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, founded by Philip in 1430. Ten other miniatures (f.75, 175v, 267, 274v, 277, 281, 284v, 286v, 291) are attributed to the Alexandre de Wauquelin Master. Bernard Bousmanne and Thierry Delcourt (ed.), ''Miniatures flamandes'', Bibliothèque nationale de France/Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 2011, 464 p. (), p. 178-181 (notice de Pascal Schandel)

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