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1977  :  Chroniques (book 1, vol. 2)

Number

1977


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 14 D iii

Owners before c.1550

  • Thomas Twaytes
  • gift to King Edward IV of England ?

Commissioners

  • Thomas Twaytes
    • Foreigner
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1480-1483
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489


Physical description

Measurements

  • 356 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 420 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 305 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 1
  • Number of miniatures : 1
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Jean Froissart

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Chroniques (book 1, vol. 2)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.1647

Laetitia Le Guay, Les princes de Bourgogne lecteurs de Froissart. Les rapports entre le texte et l’image dans les manuscrits enluminés du livre IV des Chroniques, Turnhout 1998, no. 30a (ill. 9: f.8)(M Froissart de Commynes)

Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, p.261-2

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.65, 581-582

George F. Warner & Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols, London 1921, vol. II, p. 138b

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

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5584&CollID=16&NStart=140403

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman