2023 : Image du monde (prose)
Number
2023
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 19 A ix
Owners before c.1550
- Edward IV of England
Commissioners
/
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1464-1480
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 153 (1+152) leaves
- Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
- Height of text blocks : 285 mm
- Width of text blocks : 200 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 31
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
Material
Paper
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Gossouin de Metz
Translators
- Jacques de Clercq
Contents
- 1 : Image du monde (prose)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, p.219
O.H. Prior (ed.), L'image du monde de maître Gossouin. Rédaction en prose ; texte du manuscrit de la Bibliothèque nationale, Fonds français no. 574, Lausanne 1913 [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. 320
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5717&CollID=16&Nstart=190109
Responsable
Hanno Wijsman