1982 : Speculum historiale (vol. 2)
Number
1982
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 14 E i (vol. 2)
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England
- his sons
Commissioners
- Edward IV of England
- Sovereign: King
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
-
Date
- Date details : c.1470-1483 (before 1483)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 243 leaves
- Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
- Height of text blocks : 476 mm
- Width of text blocks : 337 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 4
- Number of miniatures : 4
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Edward IV
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 17th c. (originally in one volume)
- Dating : 1600-1700
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Vincent de Beauvais
Translators
- Jean de Vignay
Contents
- 1 : Speculum historiale (vol. 2)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.1653
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, p.295-6 (M Edward IV)
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. 335, 340, 344
George F. Warner & Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols, London 1921, vol. II, p. 139b
Janet Backhouse, ‘Founders of the Royal Library: Edward IV and Henry VII as Collectors of Illuminated Manuscripts’, England in the Fifteenth Century. Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium, Woodbridge 1987, 23-41: Royal Library, list 1
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5587&CollID=16&Nstart=140501