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2036  :  Cleriadus et Meliadice Appolonius de Tyr

Number

2036


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 20 C ii

Owners before c.1550

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Commissioners

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Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1460-1480
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 236 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 381 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 273 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 2 large, 29 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 41
  • Number of miniatures : 41
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

open space for arms

Miniaturists

  • Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

literary

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Cleriadus et Meliadice
  • 2 : Appolonius de Tyr

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

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

Gaston Zink (ed.), Clériadus et Méliadice. Roman en prose du XVe siècle, Geneva 1984, L [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. 371a

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 3

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8357&CollID=16&NStart=200302

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman