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2050  :  Grande Chronique de Normandie (until 1217)

Number

2050


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Yates Thompson 33
  • Bernard-Avernes
  • Vauquelin des Chênes
  • Bordes
  • Paris, Drouot 1892
  • Sotheby's 1884-07-09, no. 175
  • Paris, Drouot 1872

Owners before c.1550

  • Philippe de Crèvecoeur (d.1494)

Commissioners

  • Philippe de Crèvecoeur (d.1494)
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Hainaut
    • Details : Hainaut ? / Brabant ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1465-1468
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1460 - 1469

Physical description

Measurements

  • 257 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 360 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 260 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 15
  • Number of miniatures : 15
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Dreux Jehan / M Girart de Rousillon (follower ?)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 17th/ 18th c. (frans)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Grande Chronique de Normandie (until 1217)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule I (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 6), Vienna 1983, fig. 039, 080

Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule II (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 7), Vienna 1990, fig. 6

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.1402

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, no. 057

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.519

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 017

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8116&CollID=58&NStart=33

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman