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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
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman