2018 : Chroniques (book 4)
Number
2018
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 18 E ii (+ Royal 18 E I + Los Angeles, JP Getty Museum, Ludwig XIII 7)
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England
- Lord Lumley
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
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Date
- Date details : c.1480 (c.1475-1483)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 421 (2+419) leaves
- Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
- Height of text blocks : 485 mm
- Width of text blocks : 355 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 54
- Number of miniatures : 54
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Getty Froissart
- Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes
- M Chattering Hands
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 20th c. (but binding 1757 is preserved)
- Dating : 1900-2000
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Jean Froissart
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Chroniques (book 4)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 109i
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. 29b (ill. 7, 17, 67, 75, 76, 79, 86)
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.286-8
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
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. 27)
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. 320
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. 314b
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 064
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 2
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=7615&CollID=16&Nstart=180502