1985 : De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium
Number
1985
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 14 E v
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
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Date
- Date details : c.1480 (c.1470-1483)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 513 leaves
- Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
- Height of text blocks : 480 mm
- Width of text blocks : 340 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 9 large, 67 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 76
- Number of miniatures : 76
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M White Inscriptions
- M Getty Froissart
- M London Wavrin ??
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 1757 (brown morocco)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Boccaccio
Translators
- Laurent de Premierfait
Contents
- 1 : De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 066 (f.271)
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Carla Bozzolo, Manuscrits des traductions françaises d’oeuvres de Boccace. XVe siècle (Medioevo e Umanesimo, 15), Padova 1973, p.136
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M White Inscriptions, ill.. 73 (f.391)
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.1652
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. 078
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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, 338, 340
Catherine Reynolds, ‘Illustrated Boccaccio Manuscripts in the British Library (London)’, Studi sul Boccaccio, 17 (1988), 113-181, p. 153
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript, London 1979, p.71 (ill. f.5)
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. 140 (ill. 87: f.291)
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 063
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
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