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2049  :  Chronique abregée de Bourgogne

Number

2049


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Yates Thompson 32
  • Henry Yates Thompson
  • Librairie Morgand et Fatout (Paris)
  • Firmin-Didot

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Fair (?)

Commissioners

  • Philip the Fair (?)
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1482-1485 (c.1485-90 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • 015 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 225-249 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 232 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 168 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 11
  • Number of miniatures : 11
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Trivial Heads

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : old: 16th c.?, pale velvet, with metal furniture
  • Dating : 1550-1600


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Chronique abregée de Bourgogne

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Edward IV, ill.. 67,68 (f.22,3)

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.295-6 (M Trivial Heads, not M Edward IV)

Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.028-30

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.417

Jeffrey Chipps Smith, The Artistic Patronage of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (Universal Microfilms International), doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, Ann Arbor 1979, app. IV

Graeme Small, ‘Of Burgundian Dukes, Counts, Saints and Kings (14 c.e.-c.1500)’, D’Arcy J.D. Boulton & Jan R. Veenstra (eds.), The Ideology of Burgundy. The Promotion of National Consciousness 1364-1565, Leiden-Boston 2006, 151-194

J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts, London 1911-, vol. V, no. 44 (f.14)

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 082

Online Informations and images

Digitisation: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=505&ref=Yates_Thompson_MS_32 ; Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8137&CollID=58&Nstart=32

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman