# Illuminated Chronicle [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Hungarian]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Manuscript \(Cod. Lat. 404\), 300 x 210 mm ## Commentary Illuminated Chronicle c. 1360 Manuscript \(Cod. Lat. 404\), 300 x 210 mm National Széchényi Library, Budapest The Illuminated Chronicle \(Hungarian: Képes Krónika\) is a medieval illustrated chronicle of the Kingdom of Hungary from the fourteenth century. It is also known as Chronica de Gestis Hungarorum \(Chronicle about the Deeds of the Hungarians\). The manuscript was decorated in Hungary before 1360 and it provides knowledge of Hungarian life, historical traditions, and legends. The manuscript represents the international artistic style of the royal courts in the court of Louis I of Hungary. The page of the Chronicle \(folio 50\) shown here contains a miniature in a simple frame depicting the construction of the Cathedral in Nagyvárad, and an initial P with King St Ladislas receiving foreign ambassadors. ## Related artworks - [Anjou Legendarium]() - [Anjou Legendarium]() - [Anjou Legendarium]() - [Anjou Legendarium]() - [Anjou Legendarium]() - [Bible of Dömötör Nekcsei]() - [Breviary]() - [Cassianus Corvina]() - [Chronicle of Anonymous]() - [Festetich Codex]() - [Gradual]() - [Gradual]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()