2019 : Facta et dicta memorabilia (vol. 1)
Number
2019
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 18 E iii (+ Royal 18 E iv)
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England
Commissioners
- Edward IV of England
- Sovereign: King
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : 1479
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 342 leaves
- Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
- Height of text blocks : 480 mm
- Width of text blocks : 340 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 4
- Number of miniatures : 4
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
"Je suis bien toudis joieulx"
Miniaturists
- M White Inscriptions
- M Froissart Commynes (margins)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Valerius Maximus
Translators
- Simon de Hesdin + Nicolas de Gonesse
Contents
- 1 : Facta et dicta memorabilia (vol. 1)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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Patricia Basing, Trades and crafts in medieval manuscripts, London 1990, ill. XIII
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M White Inscriptions, ill.. 74 (f.24)
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.115 (n60) (M White Inscriptions)
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.1652
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. 080, p.309
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
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, 338, 340, 344, 425
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library, Toronto-London 1997, no. 177 (ill. f.24)
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. 315a (ill. 106: f.24)
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 050
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=7614&CollID=16&NStart=180503