1965 : Roman de Mélusine
Number
1965
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Harley 4418
Owners before c.1550
- Jean V de Créquy
- Philip the Good (gift from Jean de Créquy ?)
- Library Burgundian Dukes
Commissioners
- Jean V de Créquy
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Date
- Date details : c.1445-1450
- Half centuries : 1400-1449
- Decade : 1440 - 1449
Physical description
Measurements
- 251 leaves
- Size categories of height : 325-349 mm
- Height of text blocks : 330 mm
- Width of text blocks : 235 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 17
- Number of miniatures : 17
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Créquy
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
literary
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Roman de Mélusine
Languages
- French
Bibliography
François Avril & Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, Paris 1993, p.076
Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.022-24
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.233, 235, 310, 313, 479
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 007
Thomas Falmagne & Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), Corpus Catalogorum Belgii. The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries. Volume V: Ducs de Bourgogne, Brussels (forthcoming in 2010): Dukes of Burgundy
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4585&CollID=8&Nstart=4418
Photo Archives
Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 3 photos