2009 : Grande histoire de César Empereurs
Number
2009
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 17 F ii
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England
- his sons
Commissioners
- Edward IV of England (as gift from Lodewijk van Gruuthuse ?)
- 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 : 1479
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 365 (1+359+5) leaves
- Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
- Height of text blocks : 480 mm
- Width of text blocks : 335 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 1 large, 39 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 40
- Number of miniatures : 40
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Edward IV
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 1972 (red half-morocco)
- Dating : 1900-2000
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Grande histoire de César
- 2 : Empereurs
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, Kathleen Jackson, with Joanna Fronska and Deirdre Jackson, Royal Manuscripts. The Genius of Illumination, Exhibition Catalogue, British Library, London, 2011, no. 50
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.295 (Master Edward IV)
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)
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.175
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
Scot McKendrick, ‘La Grande Histoire César and the Manuscripts of Edward IV’, Peter Beal & Jeremy Griffits (eds.), English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, London-Oxford 1990, 109-138
Jonathan J.G. Alexander, ‘Painting and manuscript illumination for royal patrons in the later Middle Ages’, Vincent John Scattergood & James W.Sherborne (eds.), English Court Culture in the later Middle Ages, London 1983, 141-162, ill. f.9
Louis-Fernand Flûtre & K. Sneyders de Vogel 9eds.), Li Fet des Romains, compilé ensemble de Salluste et de Suétone et de Lucain : texte du XIIIe siècle publié pour la première fois d'après les meilleurs manuscrits, Geneva 1938 [text edition]
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. 261b
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 047
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=5694&CollID=16&Nstart=170602