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Ces bois sont interessants pour les portraits, les
costumes et les armoiries qui y sont representes;
beaucoup sont repetes.
Botho's Chronicle deals chiefly t the history of Saxony, more
especially Braunschweig + Magdeburg, but it is important
not so much as an historical source, but as a source
for the folklore + legends it contains + also for linguistic
reasons, being written in Low German. Of importance
are also the many heraldic woodcuts which made the
book known as the Low Saxon Picture Chronicle.
- a curious cross between a universal + a provincial
chronicle. It begins t the creation of the world, the
founding of Rome, + the birth of Christ, but already
on fol.7 we reach: "Of the Saxons + how they
obtained their land".... From that point on the
chronicle proceeds in annalistic form, t the main
stress + prominence given to the Saxon tribe, their
dynasties, + their deeds.