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Cotton MS Augustus VI
- Record Id:
- 040-001102145
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x00021c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus VI
- Title:
- Jean Corbechon (trans.), Le livre des propriétés des choses (Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum), with a table of contents (1r–10r)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102145 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Augustus VI : Jean Corbechon (trans.), Le livre des propriétés des choses (Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum), with a… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0429]/040-001102145
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1430
- End Date:
- 1470
- Date Range:
- Mid 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Condition: intact
Materials: parchment
Dimensions: approximately 475 × 340 mm
Foliation: fos. i + 465
Binding: British Museum 19th century
- Custodial History:
- Previously owned by: Jean de Créquy, lord of Fressin and Canaples (d. 1474); (?)King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547); (?)Prince Henry of England (d. 1612); the Cotton family, Bts, Conington, 17th century
- Former Internal References:
- Cotton MS Augustus A VI
- Administrative Context:
- Origin: Amiens
- Publications:
-
Hughes-Hughes, Augustus, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, 3 vols (London, 1906–09), III, p. 357;
McKendrick, Scot, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1400-1550 (London, 2003), no. 10;
Nash, Suzie, Between France and Flanders: manuscript illumination in Amiens in the fifteenth century (London : The British Library, 1999, pp. 201, 242-43, fig. 203;
Pächt, Otto, ‘La terre de Flandres’, Pantheon, 36 (1978), 3–16;
A l'Escu de France: Guillebert de Mets et la peinture de livres a Gand a l'epoque de Jan van Eyck (1410-1450), ed. by Dominique Vanwijnsberghe and Erik Verroken, 2 vols (Brussels: IRPA, 2017), I, p. 336, II. no. 43
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- this manuscript was illuminated by the Master of the Annunciation of the Rambures Hours