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Royal MS 18 E I
- Record Id:
- 040-002107564
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x000337
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 18 E I
- Title:
- Jean Froissart, Chroniques, vol. 2
- Scope & Content:
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Includes volume 2 of the 'Chroniques' of Froissart, covering the period 1377-1385. The text of the present manuscript is classified by Kervyn de Lettenhove as the première rédaction, seconde série. Incipit: 'Quant le duc de Bourgongne cut fait ceste chevauchee'. Explicit: 'en la ville de Gand', with a colophon: 'Cy fine le second volume de maistre Jehan Froissart'.
This is probably volume 2 of a set; the other volumes are Royal MS 18 E II (volume 4) and Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ludwig MS XIII 7 (volume 3); volume 1 is untraced. Miniatures attributed to the Master of the Chattering Hands and Master of the Harley Froissart.
Decoration:
1 large miniature in colours and gold, with a full border with flowers, acanthus leaves and hybrids, and an initial in colours with a historiated decoration, at the beginning of the text (f. 12r). 47 one or two-column miniatures in colours and gold, with partial borders, at the beginning of some chapters (ff. 40r, 48r, 61v, 68r, 69v, 71v, 73r, 76v, 80r, 81v, 86r, 87v, 91v, 94r, 97v, 100r, 103v, 113r, 117v, 121r, 126r, 129r, 137r, 139v, 144v, 147r, 150r, 154r, 157v, 163r, 165v, 172r, 175r, 185r, 189r, 203v, 243r, 246v, 255r, 258v, 269r, 300v, 316v, 326r, 336v, 340v, 345r). Foliate initials in colours and gold, and initials and paraphs in gold on blue and rose grounds with penwork decoration in white. Line-fillers in rose and blue with penwork decoration in white.
The contents of the miniatures are:
f. 12r: The return of the Duke of Burgundy, with banners of his arms and a border of foliage, flowers, fruit, an eagle and snake, armed centaur, etc., on gold ground, with the arms and crest of William Hastings, Baron Hastings, K.G. (1462, beheaded 1483), outlined, but not painted in.
f. 40r: The murder of Ivain de Galles.
f. 48r: The capture of Olivier du Guesclin.
f. 61v: Charles V receiving Pierre de Bournesel.
f. 68r: Sevestre Bude rading the Capitol.
f. 69v: Joanna of Naples resigning her kingdom to Pope Clement.
f. 71v: Pope Clement ordering Bude to be beheaded.
f. 73r: Louis, Count of Flanders, enthroned (with his arms on the throne) amid courtiers and a jester, sending Jean Lyon to Ghent; Jean Lyon killing a citizen.
f. 76v: The men of Ghent sending Jean Lyon and his troop on a raid.
f. 80r: Jean Lyon killing the bailiff of Ghent, with banners of the Count of Flanders and of gilds.
f. 81v: The Count of Flanders receiving twelve men of Ghent.
f. 86r: The funeral of Jean Lyon.
f. 87v: Siege of Oudenard, with a ship with the banners of the Count of Flanders and gilds.
f. 91v: The death-bed of the Emperor Charles IV.
f. 94r: Count Louis of Flanders arriving at Ghent.
f. 97v: Olivier d'Hauterive slaying men of Ghent on the Scheldt.
f. 100r: The fortifications of Oudenarde being repaired.
f. 103v: English reinforcements for the Duke of Brittany; ships with banners of England and St George and the arms of Thomas, Earl of Buckingham (France and England with label of 5 points and bordure).
f. 113r: Parade of English troops before Troyes.
f. 117v: March of the Earl of Buckingham and his men.
f. 121r: The court of Emperor Charles V.
f. 126r: The siege of Nantes, with banners of England and Brittany.
f. 129r: The coronation of Emperor Charles VI.
f. 137r: Four Breton barons expostulating with the Duke of Brittany.
f. 139v: Jousts before the Earl of Buckingham and the Duke of Brittany (with their arms).
f. 144v: Joust of Nicholas Clifford and Jean Bourcinel.
f. 147r: The battle of the men of Ghent and Ypres with Count Louis of Flanders, with banners. Jehan Boule and Amoul le Clerc are marked with their names.
f. 150r: The death of Josse de Hallewin.
f. 154r: The church of Nyeules being burnt.
f. 157v: Battle at Eenham.
f. 163r: Richard II receiving a letter.
f. 165v: The peasants' revolt, with banners of England and St George. Jehan Balle and Waultre le Tieulier are marked with their names.
f. 172r: The murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury and others at the Tower of London.
f. 175r: The death of Wat Tyler.
f. 185v: D' Enghien besieging Grandmont.
f. 203v: Du Bois and Arteveldt killing 37 men; the Canon of Robessart attacking Jaffre.
f. 243r: Charles VI receiving Count Louis of Flanders.
f. 246v: Arteveldt addressing the men of Ypres.
f. 255r: The passage of Commines.
f. 258v: The men of Ypres surrendering to Charles VI.
f. 269v: The battle of Mont d'Or, with banners of France, Flanders, gilds, etc.
f. 300v: The capture of Oudenarde by François Ackerman.
f. 316v: The capture of Oudenarde by Descornay.
f. 326r: The fight of Galeazzo and Barnabo.
f. 336v: François Ackerman and the men of Ghent taking the Dam
f. 340v: The French taking the Dam.
f. 345r: The capture of Wark Castle.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107564 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 18 E I : Jean Froissart, Chroniques, vol. 2 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1713]/040-002107564
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 367 + 9 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_18_E_I (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1483
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 480 x 340 mm (text space: 290 x 190 mm)
Foliation: ff. iv + 367 + iv (3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf, at the beginning and at the end; 1 blank leaf after f. 11).
Collation: Gatherings of 8 leaves (beginning at f. 12), except xxx6, xxxi5, last1. Catchwords written vertically.
Layout: Written in two columns of 39 lines.
Script: Gothic cursive (bâtarde).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1975, with the former Royal library binding of brown leather with the royal arms and the date of 1757, kept separately. Gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern Netherlands (Bruges).
Provenance:
William, 1st Baron Hastings (c.1430 - 1483), courtier and administrator, chamberlain of Edward IV; sketch of his arms (f. 12r).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le petit Froissart' in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 58; and in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 14v.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Publications:
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H. N. Humphreys, Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart, 2 vols (London: William Smith, 1844, 1845), II, pl. 12-25, 32, 33, 35, 36.
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, pp. 314.
A. A. J. Armstrong 'L'échange culturel entre les cours d'Angleterre et de Bourgogne a l'époque de Charles le Témeraire', in England, France and Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century, ed. by A. A. J. Armstrong (London: Hambledon Press, 1983), 35-49 (p. 47).
The Hastings Hours, with preface and commentary by D. H. Turner (London: Thames and Hudson, 1983), p. 100.
Pamela Tudor Craig, ‘The Hours of Edward V and William Lord Hastings: British Library Manuscript Additional 54782’, in England in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by David Williams (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1987), pp. 351-69 (p. 354 n. 19).
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, ed. by David Williams (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1987), pp. 23-42 (pp. 28, 29, 41).
Janet Backhouse, The Hastings Hours (London: British Library, 1996), p. 41.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H1.56.
Janet Backhouse, 'Memorials and Manuscripts of a Yorkist Elite', in St George's Chapel, Windsor, in the Late Middle Ages, ed. by Colin Richmond and Eileen Scarff, Historical Monographs relating to St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, 17 (Leeds: Maney Publishing, 2001), pp. 151-60 (p. 156).
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. 68, ns. 105, 106).
A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges, ed. by Nigel Morgan and Stella Panayotova, part I, vol. II: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands (London: Harvey Miller, 2009), p. 158.
- Exhibitions:
- The Middle Ages, (online), 26 March 2015-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)