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2020  :  Facta et dicta memorabilia (vol. 2)

Number

2020


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 18 E iv (+ Royal 18 E iii)

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

Physical description

Measurements

  • 329 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 476 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 343 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 5
  • Number of miniatures : 5
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M White Inscriptions
  • M Flemish Boetius (one miniature)
  • 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. 2)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

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. 60

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: 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. 080bis, p.309

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

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. 315b

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=7613&CollID=16&NStart=180504

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman