1991 : De proprietatibus rerum (vol. 1)
Number
1991
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 15 E ii
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England ?
Commissioners
- Edward IV of England ?
- Sovereign: King
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean du Riès
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
-
Date
- Date details : 1482
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 282 leaves
- Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
- Height of text blocks : 470 mm
- Width of text blocks : 343 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 12
- Number of miniatures : 12
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Getty Froissart (follower)
- M Bruges 1482
- M Flemish Boethius (assistant)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Bartholomaeus Anglicus
Translators
- Jean Corbechon
Contents
- 1 : De proprietatibus rerum (vol. 1)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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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.66
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. 345-246
Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 258
Peter Murray Jones, Medieval medical miniatures, London 1984
Loren C. MacKinney, Medical illustrations in medieval manuscripts (Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 5), London 1965, no. 2
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. 175b
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
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