1990 : Histoire des croisades (Eracles)
Number
1990
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 15 E i
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England ?
Commissioners
- Edward IV of England ?
- Sovereign: King
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1475-1480 (c.1480 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 495 leaves
- Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
- Height of text blocks : 465 mm
- Width of text blocks : 340 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 54
- Number of miniatures : 54
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Getty Froissart (frontispiece)
- M Flemish Boetius (and workshop)
- M Edward IV (one miniature)
- M Joost van Wassenaar's Hours ?
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (brown morocco, Georges II)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Guillaume de Tyr
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Histoire des croisades (Eracles)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: So called A Bening
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.0585, 1653
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, no. 087
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.175, 217, 222
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, 425
Anne F. Sutton & Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III’s Books. Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince, Stroud 1997, pl. XI
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library, Toronto-London 1997, no. 180 (ill. f.16)
Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 296 (M Joost van Wassenaar's Hours)
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. 175a
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 067
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=7740&CollID=16&Nstart=150501