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2491  :  Epistolarium

Number

2491


Shelf Marks

  • Oxford, Christ Church College, 101

Owners before c.1550

  • Thomas Wolsey (d.1530, cardinal, archbishop of York) ?

Commissioners

  • Thomas Wolsey (Cardinal, Archbishop of York)
    • Clergy: Prelat; Foreigner
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Peter Meghen

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Brabant
    • Towns : Antwerp
    • Details : Antwerpen ? (Ghent ?)
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1529-1530
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1520 - 1529

Physical description

Measurements

  • 045 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 410 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 293 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 20
  • Number of miniatures : 20
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Cardinal Wolsey
  • Gerard Horenbout / M James IV of Scotland ??

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 1981 (Eddington Bindery, England)
  • Dating : 1900-2000


Content

Genre

liturgical

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Epistolarium

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Horenbout ?

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. 169

J.J.G. Alexander and Elzbieta Temple , Illuminated manuscripts in Oxford College libraries, the University Archives, and the Taylor Institution, Oxford 1985, no. 827 (2ill. f.4v, 36v)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman