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1965  :  Roman de Mélusine

Number

1965


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Harley 4418

Owners before c.1550

  • Jean V de Créquy
  • Philip the Good (gift from Jean de Créquy ?)
  • Library Burgundian Dukes

Commissioners

  • Jean V de Créquy
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Date
    • Date details : c.1445-1450
    • Half centuries : 1400-1449
    • Decade : 1440 - 1449

Physical description

Measurements

  • 251 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 325-349 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 330 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 235 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations : 17
  • Number of miniatures : 17
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Créquy

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

literary

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Roman de Mélusine

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

François Avril & Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, Paris 1993, p.076

Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.022-24

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.233, 235, 310, 313, 479

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 007

Thomas Falmagne & Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), Corpus Catalogorum Belgii. The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries. Volume V: Ducs de Bourgogne, Brussels (forthcoming in 2010): Dukes of Burgundy

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4585&CollID=8&Nstart=4418

Photo Archives

Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 3 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman