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Royal MS 18 D IX-X
- Record Id:
- 036-002107561
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000016.0x000273
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 18 D IX-X
- Title:
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Bible Historiale, Volumes 1 and 2
- Scope & Content:
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These two volumes (Royal 18 D. IX and Royal 18 D. X) contain part of the second edition of the Bible Historiale, a French adaptation by Guyart des Moulins (c. 1291-95) of Peter Comestor's Historia scholastica. The fourth volume is Royal MS 15 D I, but it was written previously and altered to include the arms of Edward IV. It is not known whether the third volume ever existed.
For further details see the entries for Volumes 1 and 2.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
036-002107561 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 18 D IX-X : Bible Historiale, Volumes 1 and 2 - Contains:
- Royal MS 18 D IX : Bible Historiale, Volume 1
Royal MS 18 D X : Bible Historiale, Volume 2
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- 032-002105724[1712]/036-002107561
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- Series
- Extent:
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Two parchment volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1479
- End Date:
- 1479
- Date Range:
- 1479
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
- See details of individual volumes.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Netherlands, S. (Bruges)
Provenance:
Edward IV (b. 1442, d. 1483), King of England and Lord of Ireland, written for him probably in Bruges: volume 2 is dated 1479 and volume 1 contains the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown with two shields bearing the same arms differenced by labels of three points for Edward's IV two sons (f. 1r), a Yorkist badge of white a rose en soleil and a motto 'Dieu et mon droit' (ff. 1r, 5r, 153r). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, nos. 47, 48; and in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 13. Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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H. Omont, 'Les manuscrits français des rois d'Angleterre au château de Richmond', in Etudes romanes dédiés à Gaston Paris (Paris: É. Bouillon, 1891), pp. 1-13 (pp. 7-8).
Samuel Berger, La bible française au moyen âge (Paris: Champion, 1884), pp. 389-90.
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, p. 314.
F. Winkler, Die flämische Buchmalerei des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts: Künstler und Werke von den Brüdern van Eyck bis zu Simon Bening (Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1925), pp. 137-8, 179.
Margaret Kekewich, 'Edward IV, William Caxton, and Literary Patronage in Yorkist England', The Modern Language Review, 66 (1971) 481-87 (p. 483).
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, 2 vols (London, 1979), I, no. 906.
Guy N. Deutsch, Iconographie de l'illustration de Flavius Josephe au temps de Jean Fouquet, Arbeiten zur Literatur und Geschichte des hellenistischen Judentums, 12 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986), pp. 136, 137, 144, 155.
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th Centuries (Amsterdam: B. M. Israel, 1987), p. 117.
Janet Backhouse, 'Founders of the Royal Library: Edward IV and Henry VII as Collectors of Illuminated Manuscripts', in England in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1987), pp. 23-41 (pp. 26, 28, 39).
Walter Cahn, 'Margaret of York's Guide to the Pilgrimage Churches of Rome', in Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Visions of Tondal, ed. by Thomas Kren (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992), pp. 89-98 (p. 93).
Lilian M. C. Randall, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, 3 vols (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989-1997), III: Belgium, 1250-1530, 2 parts, I, no. 284.
McKendrick, Scot, ‘La Grande Histoire Cesar and the Manuscripts of Edward IV’, in English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 2, ed. by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths, (London: British Library, 1990), pp. 109-38, (pp. 110, 116-20).
Scot McKendrick, 'Lodewijk van Gruuthuse en de Librije van Edward IV', in Lodewijk van Gruuthuse , Mecenas en Europees Diplomaats ca. 1427-1492, ed. by M. P. J. Marten (Bruges: Stichting, 1992), pp. 153-59 (pp. 154, 159, n. 89).
Scot McKendrick, 'The Romuléon and the Manuscripts of Edward IV', in England in the Fifteenth Century, ed. by Nicholas Rogers, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 4 (Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1994), pp. 149-69 (pp.161, n. 68, 162, nn. 74, 75, 164, 165, n. 101).
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs : der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit (Turnhout: Brepols, 1997), pp. 145, 293 - 296, 397, 399.
Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III’s Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince (Stroud, Gloucestershire, Sutton, 1997), p. 45 n. 21.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H1.45.
Akiko Komada, Les illustrations de la Bible Historiale: les manuscrits réalisés dans le Nord, 4 vols (Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Paris IV, 2000), III, no. 38 pp. 767-69.
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1550 (London: British Library, 2003), pl. 48.
Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), no. 83, pp. 224-5, 295, 297, 300-03, 304. [exhibition catalogue]. T
he Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, ed. by Jonathan J. G. Alexander, James H. Marrow, and Lucy Freeman Sandler (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), p. 107 n. 4 [exhibition catalogue].
Hanno Wijsman, 'Two Petals of a Fleur: The 'Copenhagen Fleur des Histoires' and the Production of Illuminated Manuscripts in Bruges around 1480', in Fund og Forskning I Det Kongelige Biblioteks, 47 (2008), 17-72 (p. 69, n. 109, pl. 24).
Joe Flatman, Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2009), pl. 42.
A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges, ed. by Nigel Morgan and Stella Panayotova, Part one, vol. II: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands (London: Harvey Miller, 2009), p. 158.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 54 [exhibition catalogue].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Edward IV, King of England and Lord of Ireland, 1442-1483
George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1683-1760
Moulins, Guyard, author, canon of Saint-Pierre à Aire-sur-la-Lys, 1251-c 1322
Petrus Comestor, c 1100-c 1179,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083431084,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/40175167 - Related Material:
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From the Warner and Gilson 1921 catalogue entry:
The set seems to have been made up with 15 D. I (q.v.), a previously written volume, as vol. iv; but vol. iii, which would naturally have contained the Prophets, if ever written, is not known to exist. The text is what S. Berger (La Bible française au Moyen Âge, 1884, p. 189) terms a 'petite bible historiale', i. e. the original work of Des Moulins supplemented by the addition of the full text of the Psalter and sapiential books [and the prophets ?], but not by the addition of Job (unabridged), Chronicles, or Esdras. For further particulars see op. cit., p. 389.