Flores Historiarum
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The Flores Historiarum is the name of two different Latin chronicles by medieval English historians that were created in the 13th century, associated originally with the Abbey of St Albans.
King Arthur – miniature from the Chetham MS 6712 Flores Historiarum, by or after Matthew Paris
Matthew Paris
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Matthew Paris, also known as Matthew of Paris, was an English Benedictine monk, chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts, and cartographer who was based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire. He au
Flores Historiarum
…Library in Oxford (MS Douce 207), a mutilated 14th-century copy in the British Library in London (Cotton MS Otho B V), and in the version adapted by Matthew Paris which forms the first part of his Chronica Majora (ed. Henry Richards Luard, Rolls Series, seven volumes). The sources brought together in the Flores…
Self-portrait of Matthew Paris from the original manuscript of his Historia Anglorum (London, British Library, MS Royal 14.C.VII, folio 6r)
Henry I of England from British Library MS Cotton Claudius D VI
Coronation of Queen Edith, the wife of King Edward the Confessor (Cambridge University Library, Ee.3.59, fo. 11v)
Elephant of Louis IX of France, a present to Henry III of England. Illustration from the Chronica Majora II, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge