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The statuette consists of three parts: the horse, the rider's body with the saddle, and the rider's head. It has a total height of 24 cm. The rider is depicted with a moustache, an open crown on his head, a sword in his right hand (lost), an imperial orb in his left hand, and a riding cloak fastened with a fibula.
Charles the Bald (French: Charles le Chauve; 13 June 823 – 6 October 877), also known as Charles II, was a 9th-century king of West Francia (843–877), King of Italy (875–877) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875–877). [1]
First Bible of Charles the Bald or Vivian Bible 845/846 Tours Bible; eight full-page miniatures, four canon tables, 87 initials Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Ms. lat. 1 Prayer book of Charles the Bald between 846 and 869 Court School of Charles the Bald Oldest royal prayer book; two full-page miniatures, one full-page decorative initial
The book contains 444 parchment folios. The page size is 430 by 335 mm (16.9 by 13.1 in) and divided into 2 columns of 52 lines per page written in Latin. [1] The manuscript is decorated with 74 large, painted initials with the incipits of the various chapters written in golden uncials or capitals.
The Oaths of Strasbourg were a military pact made on 14 February 842 by Charles the Bald and Louis the German against their older brother Lothair I, the designated heir of Louis the Pious, the successor of Charlemagne. One year later the Treaty of Verdun would be signed, with major consequences for Western Europe's geopolitical landscape.
Charles is a character in the novel The Children of the New Forest (1847) by Frederick Marryat. The novel Harry Ogilvie or, the Black Dragoons (1856) by James Grant, focuses on Charles's time in Scotland in 1650–1651. [5] London Pride; or When the World was Younger by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1896) focuses on Charles II's reign. [5]
There are twelve surviving manuscripts of the Edict across various collections: three in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, three in the Vatican Library, two in the Bavarian State Library, and one in each of the British Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in Yale University Library, the Stiftsbibliothek, and the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome.
The manuscript was probably given by Charles the Bald to the Cathedral of Saint-Étienne in Metz after his coronation there as king of Lotharingia in 869. It was kept in the cathedral treasury until the 17th century. According to a note by the librarian Étienne Baluze, it was given by the Metz canons to Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1674. The ...