2000 : Chroniques de Pise (until 1431)
Number
2000
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 16 G i
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England
Commissioners
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Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
David Aubert ?
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders
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Date
- Date details : c.1480-1500 (after 1470 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1490 - 1499
Physical description
Measurements
- 210 leaves
- Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
- Height of text blocks : 381 mm
- Width of text blocks : 267 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 1
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles : 1
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Loyset Liédet (workshop)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Chroniques de Pise (until 1431)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Richard E.F. Straub, David Aubert, escripvain et clerc (Faux titre. Etudes de langue et littérature françaises, 96), Amsterdam-Atlanta 1995, Section 2.2.4.10
I.M.P. Reaside, ‘The Manuscripts of 'Les anchiennes croniques de Pise', Scriptorium, 9 (1955), 85-98
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. 206c
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 3
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5661&CollID=16&Nstart=160701