2011 : Facta et dicta memorabilia
Number
2011
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 17 F iv
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England ?
Commissioners
/
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Date
- Date details : c.1470
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 352 leaves
- Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
- Height of text blocks : 490 mm
- Width of text blocks : 348 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 9
- Number of miniatures : 9
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Rambures
- M Wauquelin's Alexander (one miniature)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (brown morocco, George II)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Valerius Maximus
Translators
- Simon de Hesdin + Nicolas de Gonesse
Contents
- 1 : Facta et dicta memorabilia
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, no. 066
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. 406
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. 262c
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 024
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 4
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7688&CollID=16&NStart=170604