“In the year of Our Lord 1356 on the Tuesday in the octave of Ascension I commenced this Chronicle of the old and more recent deeds, and the origin of the Hungarians…” With these words the Illuminated Chronicle begins, whose author is thought to be the 14th-century chronicler Mark of Kalt. The Franciscan monk, court priest, queen’s chap-lain, later parish priest of St Peter’s outside Buda, then protector of the royal chapel, canon of Fehérvár and Veszprém, and lastly canon keeper of the seal of Fehérvár worked in the royal court until the mid 14th century, researching and making notes of events. From these he edited his own extensive chronicle in Hungarian, which today is a jealously guarded treasure of the National Széchényi Library. The Illuminated Chronicle is adorned by 147 miniature illustrations: ten large pictures to the width of the text, twenty-nine to the width of the column, four smaller ones at the bottom of the page in the form of a round me-dallion, 99 as part of initials and 5 initials without a picture. In addition there are border decorations on 82 pages. The illuminator is thought to be Nicholas, son of Hertul. The Chronicle was presumably made for the purposes of representation, but both the text and the illustrations are incomplete with several blank spaces left for pictures. Source: http://hu.wikipedia.org The stamp design was printed using a combination of offset and gold-coloured foil printing, and shows a detail of the Illuminated Chronicle, kept in the collection of the National Széchényi Library, the ornamental initial of the chapter on the coronation of Géza, which depicts the legendary scene of Géza and Ladislas following a deer to find a place for a church. On the first day cover there is a montage using a few details of the Illumi-nated Chronicle, while the design of the special postmark employs a stylised drawing of a graphic element illustrating the Illuminated Chronicle.