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
/
Contents
- 1 : Vie de Jésus Christ en sept parties
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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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
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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