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2001  :  Vie de Jésus Christ en sept parties

Number

2001


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 16 G iii

Owners before c.1550

  • Edward IV of England ? / Margaret of York ?

Commissioners

  • Edward IV of England ?
    • Sovereign: King
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

David Aubert

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent
  • Date
    • Date details : 1479
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 212 (206??) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 387 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 279 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations : 9
  • Number of miniatures : 9
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Flemish Boetius

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

Authors

  • Michel de Massa

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Vie de Jésus Christ en sept parties

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

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. 152

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 112

Richard E.F. Straub, David Aubert, escripvain et clerc (Faux titre. Etudes de langue et littérature françaises, 96), Amsterdam-Atlanta 1995, Section 2.2.2.13

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.1143-1145

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.309

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.225, 238, 247

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.365

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. 425, 428

Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library, Toronto-London 1997, no. 176 (ill. f.18v)

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. 207b (ill. 98: f86, 141, 168b)

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 043

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 4

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7980&CollID=16&NStart=160703

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman