1962 : Chroniques (book 4, vol. 1)
Number
1962
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Harley 4379
Owners before c.1550
- Philippe de Commynes
Commissioners
- Philippe de Commynes ?
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean du Riès (?)
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1470-1472 (1472-1473)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 184 leaves
- Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
- Height of text blocks : 415 mm
- Width of text blocks : 310 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 80 miniatures in vols. 1 and 2 together
- Total number of illustrations :
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes
- M Chroniques d'Angleterre
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 17th c. (then split in two volumes)
- Dating : 1600-1700
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Jean Froissart
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Chroniques (book 4, vol. 1)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Laetitia Le Guay, Les princes de Bourgogne lecteurs de Froissart. Les rapports entre le texte et l’image dans les manuscrits enluminés du livre IV des Chroniques, Turnhout 1998, no. 28a (pl. I, III, ill. 5, 28, 31, 32, 47, 91, 49, 83, 95, 71)
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, no. 068
Pascal Schandel & Ilona Hans-Collas, with the collaboration of Hanno Wijsman and scientific advice by François Avril, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux, Vol. I: Louis de Bruges, Paris-Leuven 2009, p. 171, 174
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.64, 332
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. 325, 331, 332, 340
Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 200
Richard Barber & Juliet Barker, Tournaments. Jousts, chivalry and pageants in the Middle Ages, Woodbridge 1989, p. 42, 111, 185
H.N. Humphreys, Illuminated illustrations of Froissart selected from the MS. in the British Museum, London 1844 [hand drawn copies of all miniatures]
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 025-26
Online Informations and images
Digitisation: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_4379_fs001r ; Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7233&CollID=8&Nstart=4379