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2041  :  Chroniques de Saint Denis (de France) (vol. 2)

Number

2041


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 20 E ii

Owners before c.1550

  • Henry VII of England

Commissioners

  • Thomas Twaytes, as gift for King Henry VII of England
    • Foreigner
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Hugues de Lembourg

Origin

  • Place
    • Details : SN ? (N-France ? / England ?)
  • Date
    • Date details : 1487 (after 1487 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • 289 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 525-549 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 540 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 368 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations : 9
  • Number of miniatures : 9
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Chroniques de Saint Denis (de France) (vol. 2)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

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. 387b

Janet Backhouse, 'Illuminated Manuscripts Associated with Henry VII and Members of his Immediate Family', Benjamin Thompson (ed.), The Reign of Henry VII: Proceedings of the 1993 Harlaxton Symposium, Stamford 1995, 175-187: Henry VII

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7596&CollID=16&NStart=200502

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman