Chroniques de France (3ème partie)
A late fifteenth-century French incunable chronicle printed in Paris by Antoine Vérard, the third part of the Chroniques de France, illustrated with small woodcut scenes set above French text columns. The woodcuts show armoured soldiers with pole weapons on the left, and on the right a figure being hoisted up a tower wall by a rope while another falls or climbs below, with a tower and rooftops behind. A designer might take the hatched woodcut line, the compact framed vignette layout, and the tight pairing of crowd and architecture as a model for narrative panels.
