2013 : Forteresse de la foi (vol. 1)
Number
2013
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 17 F vi (+ Royal 17 F vii)
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England ?
Commissioners
/
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean Du Quesne
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1470-1480 (before 1480)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 290 leaves
- Size categories of height : 500-524 mm
- Height of text blocks : 514 mm
- Width of text blocks : 362 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 5
- Number of miniatures : 5
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Loyset Liédet (and workshop ?)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
philosophical, theological, ascetic
Authors
- Alfonso Lopez de Spina
Translators
- Pierre Richart, dit l'Oiselet
Contents
- 1 : Forteresse de la foi (vol. 1)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Merle Fifield, ‘The French Manuscripts of La Forteresse de la Foi’, Manuscripta, 16 (1972), 98-111, no. 02a
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
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.70, 160
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. 263a
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=6393&CollID=16&NStart=170606