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1983  :  Chemin de Vaillance Epistre d'Othea Bréviaire des nobles etc.

Number

1983


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 14 E ii

Owners before c.1550

  • Edward IV of England
  • his sons

Commissioners

  • Edward IV of England
    • Sovereign: King
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : 1473-1483
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

  • 354 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 460 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 330 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 4 large, 10 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 14
  • Number of miniatures : 14
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Getty Froissart (frontispiece) ?
  • M White Inscriptions

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Jean de Courcy
  • Christine de Pizan
  • Alain Chartier
  • Raymond Lulle
  • etc.

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Chemin de Vaillance
  • 2 : Epistre d'Othea
  • 3 : Bréviaire des nobles
  • 4 : etc.

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, Kathleen Jackson, with Joanna Fronska and Deirdre Jackson, Royal Manuscripts. The Genius of Illumination, Exhibition Catalogue, British Library, London, 2011, no. 62 / A01 : 460 x 330

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.1653

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.55, 175

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. 335, 340, 344

Anne F. Sutton & Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III’s Books. Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince, Stroud 1997, ill. 36

Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library, Toronto-London 1997

Scot McKendrick, ‘La Grande Histoire César and the Manuscripts of Edward IV’, Peter Beal & Jeremy Griffits (eds.), English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, London-Oxford 1990, 109-138

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. 139c

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 062

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 1

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7794&CollID=16&NStart=140502

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman