Les ducs, le roi et l’Orient : le rêve d’unité et de croisade de Philippe le Hardi à travers le manuscrit Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 12201

The Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 12201 manuscript was commissioned by Philip of Burgundy and completed in 1403. It contains three texts about the East, including a copy of the Flor des estoires de la Terre d’Orient by the Armenian monk Hayton of Corycus.The manuscript is one of three identical illuminated manuscripts and the only one to have survived. The commission of these three manuscripts by the Duke of Burgundy, takes on a powerful political meaning in the confusion of the early 15th century. Analyzing the iconography can reveal clues about the diplomatic ambitions of the duke. How this manuscript was constructed, probably a two-step process, shines a light on the political relationship the Burgundians dukes had with the East