2014 : Forteresse de la foi (vol. 2)
Number
2014
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 17 F vii (+ Royal 17 F vi)
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.1480 (c.1470-1480 ? / before 1480 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 162 leaves
- Size categories of height : 500-524 mm
- Height of text blocks : 510 mm
- Width of text blocks : 375 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. 2)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Merle Fifield, ‘The French Manuscripts of La Forteresse de la Foi’, Manuscripta, 16 (1972), 98-111, no. 02b
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
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.1654
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. 263b
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 068
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
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