2010 : De Civitate Dei (books 1-10)
Number
2010
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 17 F iii (vol. 1+2)
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England
- his sons
Commissioners
- Edward IV of England
- Sovereign: King
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1480 (c.1473-1483 / c.1470 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 241 + 336 leaves
- Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
- Height of text blocks : 477 mm
- Width of text blocks : 330 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 2 large, 9 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 11
- Number of miniatures : 11
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M White Inscriptions
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 1757 (calf brun) (originally vols. 1 and 2 in one single volume)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
philosophical, theological, ascetic
Authors
- Augustine
Translators
- Raoul de Presles
Contents
- 1 : De Civitate Dei (books 1-10)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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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, 340
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. 262b
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 061
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 1
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7689&CollID=16&NStart=170603