2004 : Commentarii de bello gallico
Number
2004
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 16 G viii
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England
Commissioners
/
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean Du Quesne (?)
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders
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Date
- Date details : c.1473-1480 (after 1473)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 338 leaves
- Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
- Height of text blocks : 400 mm
- Width of text blocks : 290 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 23
- Number of miniatures : 23
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M London Wavrin
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Julius Caesar
Translators
- Jean Du Quesne (Jean Du Chesne)
Contents
- 1 : Commentarii de bello gallico
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. 76
Scot McKendrick, The History of Alexander the Great: an Illuminated Manuscript of Vasco da Lucena’s French Translation of the Ancient Text by Quintus Curtius Rufus (Getty Museum Monographs on Illuminated Manuscripts), Los Angeles 1996, p.31-32
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, no. 074
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.267
G. Keach, Two Flemish Manuscripts of Caesar’s Commentaries, unpublished M.A. Thesis, Yale University, 1969
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. 213a
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 027
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=7979&CollID=16&NStart=160708