Jacques de Helly brings news of the terrible defeat at the Battle of Nicopolis and letters from the captured knights to King Charles VI of France, 1396. Sultan Bayezid demanded a ransom for his prisoners. Illuminated panel with bird in a snail shell and figure with an insect head. Handcoloured lithograph after an illuminated manuscript from Sir John Froissart's "Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, from the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV," George Routledge, London, 1868.