1004 : Romuleon
Number
1004
Shelf Marks
- Brussels, KBR, 10173-74
Owners before c.1550
- Jean, bastard of Wavrin
Commissioners
- Jean, bastard of Wavrin
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Lille
- Details : Lille ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1465-1470 (c.1460 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 433 leaves
- Size categories of height : 325-349 mm
- Height of text blocks : 340 mm
- Width of text blocks : 230 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 10
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings : 10
Miniaturists
- M Champion des Dames
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern (mottled leather)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Benvenuto da Imola
Translators
- Jean Miélot
Contents
- 1 : Romuleon
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 078, M Champion des dames, for Jean de Wavrin (ill. 33: f.4)
Patrick De Winter, ‘Manuscrits à peintures produits pour le mécénat lillois sous les règnes de Jean sans Peur et de Philippe le Bon’, Actes du 101e congrès des Sociétés Savantes: Archéologie militaire. Les Pays du Nord, Lille 1976, 233-256, Fig. 18 (f.4)
François Avril & Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, Paris 1993, p.098
Brigitte Dekeyser & Jan Van der Stock, Manuscripts in Transition. Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002) (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 15), Leuven 2005, p.310, 315
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.473-477
Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 105, 367
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
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010: Jean de Wavrin, no. 23
Antoinette Naber, ‘Les manuscrits d’un bibliophile bourguignon du XVe siècle, Jean de Wavrin’, Revue du Nord, 72 (1990), 23-48: Jean de Wavrin
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