Facts and figures
3 – The brothers responsible for the most beautiful of the illuminations
11 – The castles portrayed in the codex
21 or 22 – The lines on the pages, solely comprised of text
65 – The large full-page illuminations
65 – The smaller illuminations inserted into the text
213 x 292 – Format (mm)
266 – Illuminated initials
416 – Manuscript pages
550 – Numbered facsimile copies
3,000+ – Gilded initials
22,000 – Francs, the price paid in 1856 by Henri d’Orléans, duc d’Aumale, to purchase the codex
