800 : Romuleon
Number
800
Shelf Marks
- Besançon, BM, 850
Owners before c.1550
- Philip the Good (bought in 1467 from Colard Mansion)
- Library Burgundian Dukes
Commissioners
/
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : 1467 ?
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 287 leaves
- Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
- Height of text blocks : 460 mm
- Width of text blocks : 320 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 1 large miniatures, 9 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 10
- Number of miniatures : 10
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Chroniques d'Angleterre
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Benvenuto da Imola
Translators
- Jean Miélot
Contents
- 1 : Romuleon
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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.167-168, 233, 248
Scot McKendrick, ‘The Romuléon and the Manuscripts of Edward IV’, England in the Ffifteenth Century. Proceedings of the 1992 Harlaxton Symposium, Stamford 1994, 149-169
Online Informations and images
Description and images of the miniatures : http://memoirevive.besancon.fr/ark:/48565/a011323184972xxXQui ; See: http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/
Responsable
Hanno Wijsman