2040 : Chroniques de Saint Denis (de France) (vol. 1)
Number
2040
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 20 E i
Owners before c.1550
- Henry VII of England
Commissioners
- Thomas Twaytes, as gift for King Henry VII of England
- Foreigner
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Hugues de Lembourg
Origin
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Place
- Details : SN ? (NN ? / England ?)
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Date
- Date details : 1487 (after 1487 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 225 leaves
- Size categories of height : 525-549 mm
- Height of text blocks : 525 mm
- Width of text blocks : 363 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 1
- Number of miniatures : 1
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Bruges 1482 (influence)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Chroniques de Saint Denis (de France) (vol. 1)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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. 347
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. 387a
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 091
Janet Backhouse, 'Illuminated Manuscripts Associated with Henry VII and Members of his Immediate Family', Benjamin Thompson (ed.), The Reign of Henry VII: Proceedings of the 1993 Harlaxton Symposium, Stamford 1995, 175-187: Henry VII
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7597&CollID=16&NStart=200501