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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
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman