<< < / > >>

1986  :  Profits ruraux des champs

Number

1986


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 14 E vi

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

Scribe

Jean du Riès

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1473-1483 (c.1480-1500 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

  • 310 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 472 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 340 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 4 large, 8 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 12
  • Number of miniatures : 12
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Getty Froissart (only frontispiece)
  • M White Inscriptions

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 1757 (brown morocco, Georges II)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Petrus de Crescentiis

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Profits ruraux des champs

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Patricia Basing, Trades and crafts in medieval manuscripts, London 1990, ill. 10

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.222

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. 141

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=7790&CollID=16&NStart=140506

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman