1975 : De Civitate Dei (books 1-10)
Number
1975
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 14 D i
Owners before c.1550
- Dukes of Guelders
Commissioners
/
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Lille
- Details : Lille
-
Date
- Date details : c.1465
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 434 (433+1) leaves
- Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
- Height of text blocks : 418 mm
- Width of text blocks : 300 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 11
- Number of miniatures : 11
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Golden Fleece Vienna and Copenhagen
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 1757 (brown calf, King of England)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
philosophical, theological, ascetic
Authors
- Augustine
Translators
- Raoul de Presles
Contents
- 1 : De Civitate Dei (books 1-10)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
A. de Laborde, Les Manuscrits à peintures de la Cité de Dieu de Saint Augustin, Paris 1909, no. 47 (ill. 37: f.299v)
Pascal Schandel & Ilona Hans-Collas, with the collaboration of Hanno Wijsman and scientific advice by François Avril, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux, Vol. I: Louis de Bruges, Paris-Leuven 2009, p.157
Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 380-381
Janet Backhouse, ‘Founders of the Royal Library: Edward IV and Henry VII as Collectors of Illuminated Manuscripts’, England in the Fifteenth Century. Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium, Woodbridge 1987, 23-41: Royal Library, list 5
Online Informations and images
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