2021 : Chronique dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes (vol. 1)
Number
2021
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 18 E v
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England ?
Commissioners
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Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders
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Date
- Date details : 1473
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 390 leaves
- Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
- Height of text blocks : 463 mm
- Width of text blocks : 342 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 11 large miniatures, 43 small grisailles
- Total number of illustrations : 54
- Number of miniatures : 11
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles : 43
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Soane Josephus (large miniatures)
- Loyset Liédet (follower)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 1757 (brown morocco, Georges II)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Chronique dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes (vol. 1)
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. 55
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, p.292
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. 315c
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 028
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=7612&CollID=16&NStart=180505