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2017  :  Chroniques (book 2)

Number

2017


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 18 E i (+ Royal 18 E ii + Los Angeles, JP Getty Museum, Ludwig XIII 7)

Owners before c.1550

  • Edward IV of England

Commissioners

  • Edward IV of England (gift by William, Lord Hastings ?)
    • Sovereign: King
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1480 (c.1475-1483)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • 367 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 480 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 355 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 48
  • Number of miniatures : 48
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes
  • M Chattering Hands

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 20th c. (but 18th c. binding is preserved)
  • Dating : 1900-2000


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Jean Froissart

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Chroniques (book 2)

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. 49bis

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 109h

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.296 (n26)

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.1649, 1654

Laetitia Le Guay, Les princes de Bourgogne lecteurs de Froissart. Les rapports entre le texte et l’image dans les manuscrits enluminés du livre IV des Chroniques, Turnhout 1998, no. 29a (ill. 12: f.12)(M Froissart de Commynes)

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.261-2, 286-8

Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.65, 582 (M Chattering Hands, no. 26)

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. 284

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. 314a

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

Digitisation: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_18_e_i_fs001r ; Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7616&CollID=16&Nstart=180501

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman