1998 : Roman de Sydrac et Boctus Traité péchés mortels
Number
1998
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 16 F v
Owners before c.1550
- John Donne
- John Lumley
Commissioners
- John Donne
- Foreigner
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1495-1500
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1490 - 1499
Physical description
Measurements
- 127 (1+126) leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 362 mm
- Width of text blocks : 254 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 2
- Number of miniatures : 2
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Soane Josephus ?
- M Edward IV ?
- M Dresden Prayer Book (small miniature)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
literary
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Roman de Sydrac et Boctus
- 2 : Traité péchés mortels
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, no. 24, p.300, bl-w ill. 293-294 (M Dresden, Master Edward IV)
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.1648
Scriptorium, 1 (2006)
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. 204c
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 5
Online Informations and images
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