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1989  :  Homelies Dialoges

Number

1989


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 15 D v

Owners before c.1550

  • Edward IV of England ?

Commissioners

  • Edward IV of England ?
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

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


Physical description

Measurements

  • 354 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 430 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 320 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 2 large, 41 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 43
  • Number of miniatures : 43
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Soane Josephus
  • M Edward IV ?
  • M St Omer 421 ??
  • other hands

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 1757 (brown morocco, Georges II)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • Gregory the Great

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Homelies
  • 2 : Dialoges

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. 59

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.110 (n47) (Master Edward IV, M St Omer 421)

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. 173b

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 2

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=19318&CollID=16&Nstart=150405

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman