# World Chronicle Charlemagne [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, German]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. 302 Vad.\), 305 x 210 mm ## Commentary World Chronicle Charlemagne c. 1300 Manuscript \(Ms. 302 Vad.\), 305 x 210 mm Kantonsbinliothek Vadiana, St. Gall The World Chronicle is known as the favourite book of the German Middle Ages. More than 100 manuscripts and fragments have come down to us, including 28 illuminated editions. The copy from St. Gall is the most beautiful, decorated with 58 miniatures, mostly double pictures that take up two thirds of the page and are painted with brilliant body colours on a golden ground. Folio 169v depicts the Capture of Jerusalem \(the castle at Jerusalem, 2 Kings 5, 6-8; 1 Chronicles 11, 5-7\), ## Related artworks - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Aachen Gospels]() - [Ada Gospels]() - [Allegory of the Sacraments]() - [Antoninus Florentinus: Chronicon]() - [Aratea]() - [Astronomical-computist collection]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Astronomicum caesareum]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() - [Bamberg Apocalypse]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()