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2015  :  Bible historiale (vol. 1)

Number

2015


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 18 D ix (+ Royal 18 D x + Royal 15 D i)

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
  • Date
    • Date details : 1479
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 319 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 430 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 313 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 14
  • Number of miniatures : 14
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Edward IV
  • M Soane Josephus (follower)
  • Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes
  • M London Wavrin (circle)
  • other hand

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 18th c.
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

biblical

Authors

  • Petrus Comestor

Translators

  • Guyart de Moulins

Contents

  • 1 : Bible historiale (vol. 1)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Friedrich Winkler, Die Flämische Buchmalerei des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts: Künstler und Werke von den Brüdern van Eyck bis zu Simon Bening, Leipzig 1925: M Edward IV

Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, Kathleen Jackson, with Joanna Fronska and Deirdre Jackson, Royal Manuscripts. The Genius of Illumination, Exhibition Catalogue, British Library, London, 2011, no. 54

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Edward IV

Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], p. 141

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.145, 295 (Master Edward IV) (M Soane Josephus, M Edward IV)

Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James H. Marrow & Lucy Freeman Sandler (with the assistance of Elisabeth Moodey and Todor T. Petev), The Splendor of the Word. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, exhib. cat., New York-London-Turnhout 2005, see no. 21

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. 083a

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, 204, 208

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

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. 313b

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 048

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=7939&CollID=16&Nstart=180409

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman