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Add MS 26667
- Record Id:
- 032-002030435
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002030435
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x000212
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057739425.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 26667
- Title:
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Chronique Universelle
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Chronique Universelle, a chronicle of universal history from the Creation to 1340, divided into 6 ages.
Decoration:
7 full-page miniatures in colours with gold. Initials and line fillers in gold on red grounds.
The subjects of the miniatures are:
f. 1r: The Expulsion from Paradise;
f. 4r: Noah, his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their wives;
f. 6r: An angel takes Abraham's sword as he is about to sacrifice Isaac;
f. 12v: Servius, King of Rome, having ditches dug around the city;
f. 16v: David with his harp, outside the walls of Jerusalem;
f. 33v: Caesar Augustus with a sword and orb;
f. 41v: The Baptism of Christ.
Miniatures attributed to Jean Colombe de Bourges, (b. c. 1430, d. 1493) (see Claude Schaeffer, Jean Fouquet (1994)).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002030435", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 26667: Chronique Universelle" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002030435
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002030435
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057739425.0x000001
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1480
- End Date:
- 1490
- Date Range:
- 1480-1490
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 190 x 130mm (text space: 140 x 90mm).
Layout: One column of 22 lines.
Foliation: ff. 100 (+1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and 3 unfoliated parchment flyleaves and 1 paper flyleaf at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Red velvet with gold fore-edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, Central (Bourges).
Provenance:
Jacques-Joseph Techener, Paris booksellers, in their sale, 3 April, 1865, lot 1497; bought by Messrs Boone.
Bought by the British Museum from Messrs Boone, London booksellers, 10 June 1865.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Troisieme Catalogue de livres anciens et modernes, rares et curieux provenant de la librairie de J-Joseph Techener (Paris, 1865), pp. 4-5.
The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1854-1875 (London: British Museum, 1877), pp. 265-66.
Claude Schaeffer, Jean Fouquet: an der Schwelle zur Renaissance (Basel: Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 1994), p. 285.
Francois Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits a Peintures en France, 1440-1520 (Paris: Flammarion, 1993), pp. 326-38 [on the illuminator, Jean Colombe].
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 179.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)