Chroniques de France (2ème partie)
This is an incunable French chronicle printed in Paris by Antoine Vérard around 1500, a history of France. Its woodcuts show armoured men in a walled town, with a street scene of soldiers, fallen bodies and debris, and a separate scene of a crowned ruler and a labourer swinging a pick; a designer could take their dense hatched line and compact vignette framing as a model for medieval-style narrative blocks.
