672 : Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre (vol. 4)
Number
672
Shelf Marks
- Baltimore, WAG, W 201
- Sotheby's 1912-11-20, no. 125
- Robert Blathwayt (until 1912) (+ Den Haag, KB, 133 a 7 i-iii)
Owners before c.1550
- Engelbert II of Nassau ?
- Hendrik III of Nassau
Commissioners
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Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1475-1485
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 334 leaves
- Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
- Height of text blocks : 483 mm
- Width of text blocks : 353 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 6
- Number of miniatures : 6
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 17th/18th c. (brown calf, France)
- Dating : 1600-1700
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Jean de Wavrin
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre (vol. 4)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
De eeuw der Vlaamse primitieven. Tentoonstelling ingericht door het Stadsbestuur van Brugge en The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA, exhib. cat., Brugge 1960, no. 208 (ill.)Delaissé 1959, no. 190, Ghent
Medieval Mastery. Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold, 800-1475, exhib. cat., Leuven 2002, no. 87
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.255-6, 278
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.273, 332, 462
Anne F. Sutton & Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III’s Books. Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince, Stroud 1997, ill. 59
Lilian M.C. Randall, assisted by Judith H. Oliver, Christopher Clarkson & Claudia Mark, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. III: Belgium, 1250-1530, 2 vols., Baltimore-London 1997, no. 276 (ill. XXXVIIIc, 519: f.147, 11)
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File USA (all 6 miniatures)