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1992  :  De proprietatibus rerum (vol. 2)

Number

1992


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 15 E iii

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

  • 294 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 470 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 345 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 8
  • Number of miniatures : 8
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Bruges 1482
  • M Edward IV
  • M Flemish Boetius (follower) ?
  • other hand

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Bartholomaeus Anglicus

Translators

  • Jean Corbechon

Contents

  • 1 : De proprietatibus rerum (vol. 2)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Friedrich Winkler, Die Flämische Buchmalerei des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts: Künstler und Werke von den Brüdern van Eyck bis zu Simon Bening, Leipzig 1925: M Bruges 1482

Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 064 (f.11)

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. 93

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 114

Walter Prevenier & Wim Blockmans, De Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1982 [also published in English and French: The Burgundian Netherlands, Cambridge 1986; Les Pays-Bas bourguignons, Antwerp 1982], ill. 061

Patricia Basing, Trades and crafts in medieval manuscripts, London 1990, ill. 32, 48

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Brugge 1482, ill.. 75 (f.11)

Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], p. 022

Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], p.425

Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 253

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, p.295-6 (M Edward IV)

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.200-201

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.661

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

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. 175c

J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts, London 1911-, vol. I, no. 38 (f.11)

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 080

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=7691&CollID=16&Nstart=150503

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman