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2007  :  Cyropaedia De re militarii

Number

2007


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 17 E v

Owners before c.1550

  • Thomas Twaytes

Commissioners

/

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Flanders
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1477
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

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

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 1 large, 7 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 8
  • Number of miniatures : 8
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

"Oublier ne puis"

Miniaturists

  • M Chattering Hands

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Xenophon
  • Vegetius

Translators

  • Vasco da Lucena
  • Jean de Vignay

Contents

  • 1 : Cyropaedia
  • 2 : De re militarii

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

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.1647

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.582 (M Chattering Hands, no. 25)

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, (7 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. 259b

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 5

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5692&CollID=16&NStart=170505

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman