2031 : Romuleon
Number
2031
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 19 E v
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England
- his sons
Commissioners
- Edward IV of England (gift by Margaret of York ?)
- Sovereign: King
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
David Aubert ?
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
-
Date
- Date details : 1480 (shortly after 1480 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 418 leaves
- Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
- Height of text blocks : 470 mm
- Width of text blocks : 340 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 9 large, 2 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 11
- Number of miniatures : 11
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M White Inscriptions
- M Getty Froissart ?
- M Chattering Hands
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 1985 (half, red morocco)
- Dating : 1900-2000
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Benvenuto da Imola
Translators
- Jean Miélot
Contents
- 1 : Romuleon
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 065 (f.367)
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. 51 / 470 x 340
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M White Inscriptions
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) (Master Edward IV, M White Inscriptions)
Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], Fig. 8.70 (f.32) (as Royal 19 E iv)
Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 375 (f.367v)
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
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.65, 582-583 (M Chattering Hands, no. 28)
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, 339, 340, 344
Scot McKendrick, ‘The Romuléon and the Manuscripts of Edward IV’, England in the Ffifteenth Century. Proceedings of the 1992 Harlaxton Symposium, Stamford 1994, 149-169
Wim Blockmans, ‘The Devotion of a Lonely Duchess’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Visions of Tondal. Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections (June 21-24, 1990), Los Angeles 1992, 29-46, p. 32
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. 348b
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=7599&CollID=16&Nstart=190505
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