2038 : Chronique de Charles VII
Number
2038
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 20 C ix
Owners before c.1550
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Commissioners
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Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1480-1500
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1490 - 1499
Physical description
Measurements
- 314 leaves
- Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
- Height of text blocks : 394 mm
- Width of text blocks : 279 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 22
- Number of miniatures : 22
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
open space for arms
Miniaturists
- Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes
- M Mains volubiles
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Jean Chartier
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Chronique de Charles VII
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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.261-2
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. 375
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=8312&CollID=16&NStart=200309