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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

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • 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)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman