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2003  :  Cyropaedia

Number

2003


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 16 G ix

Owners before c.1550

  • Edward IV of England ?

Commissioners

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

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Flanders
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1474-1475 (after 1470)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

  • 203 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 406 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 292 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 6
  • Number of miniatures : 6
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes
  • M Chroniques d'Angleterre

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Xenophon

Translators

  • Vasco da Lucena

Contents

  • 1 : Cyropaedia

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

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.261-2

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.175

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. 335

Cyriel Stroo, De celebratie van de macht. Presentatieminiaturen een aanverwante voorstellingen in handschriften van Philips de Goede (1419-1467) en Karel de Stoute (1467-1477) (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten. Nieuwe reeks, 7), Turnhout 2002, ill. 127

Anne F. Sutton & Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III’s Books. Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince, Stroud 1997, ill. 41

Danielle Gallet-Guerne, Vasque de Lucène et la Cyropédie à la Cour de Bourgogne (1470). Le traité de Xenophon mis en français d’après la version latine du Pogge. Étude. Édition des livres I et V (Travaux d’humanisme et renaissance, 140), Geneva 1974, (6 ill.)

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. 213b

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/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=34565

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman