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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

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