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2033  :  Vitae Sanctorum

Number

2033


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 20 B ii

Owners before c.1550

  • John Donne

Commissioners

  • John Donne
    • Foreigner
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1475
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

  • 081 (1+80) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 250-274 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 260 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 171 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 3
  • Number of miniatures : 3
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Dresden Prayer Book

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

Authors

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Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Vitae Sanctorum

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, no. 26, p.085-87, 369, bl-w ill. 70 (M Dresden)

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.1648

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. 411

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. 360a

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 5

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5831&CollID=16&NStart=200202

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman