2005 : Recueil des histoires de Troie
Number
2005
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 17 E ii
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England ?
Commissioners
- Edward IV of England ?
- Sovereign: King
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1470-1480
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 375 leaves
- Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
- Height of text blocks : 406 mm
- Width of text blocks : 286 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 3 large, 62 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 65
- Number of miniatures : 65
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M White Inscriptions (frontispiece and two other miniatures)
- M Philip of Cleves's Livre de la chasse
- two other hands
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Raoul Lefèvre
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Recueil des histoires de Troie
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. 77
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.115, text ill. 35 (M White Inscriptions)
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.1652-1654
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. 285, 340, 344
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. 258b
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/record.asp?MSID=5689&CollID=16&NStart=170502