Excellente cronike van Vlaenderen

A relatively recent acquisition, Manuscript 685 was bought in 1988 from a private collection in Florence, Italy. The manuscript holds an Italian translation of the Excellente cronike van Vlaenderen, a fifteenth century narrative on the history of the county of Flanders. Although the text is found in a great many copies, the present copy is unique and valuable in several ways. Firstly, it is the so…