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Royal MS 18 E V
- Record Id:
- 040-002107569
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x00033b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100057738755.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 18 E V
- Title:
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Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
The Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes, a compilation of ancient history also known as Le trésor des histoires or Le trésor de sapience, consisting of:
ff. 1r-19r: Table of Chapters;
f. 20r: Prologue;
ff. 21r-390r: Histoire tripartite in 368 chapters, up to the death of Hadrian.
Versions of the same compilation are found in Harley 4415, Cotton Augustus V and parts in Additional 25884.
Decoration:
12 large miniatures in colours and gold, with full borders with spaces left for a coat of arms, and initials in colours with penwork decoration in gold, at the beginning of books (ff. 21r, 54v, 80r, 111r, 137v, 158v, 199r, 232r, 263r, 330v, 355v, 365v). 41 one-column miniatures partially in grisaille and gold, with partial borders and foliate initials in colours and gold or initials in colours with penwork decoration in gold, at the beginning of some chapters (ff. 28r, 31v, 36r, 38v, 40v, 46r, 62v, 68v, 73v, 86v, 91r, 94v, 99r, 103v, 118v, 121r, 123v, 125v, 130r, 133r, 141r, 149r, 153v, 161r, 182r, 206r, 212r, 221r, 227r, 244r, 248v, 286r, 298v, 321v, 326r, 339r, 343v, 353r, 363v, 371r, 375v). Initials and paraphs in gold with black pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Line-fillers in blue and gold.
Bifolium signatures. Foliation in red.
The subjects of the miniatures are:
f. 21r: Eden before the Fall: in the border are four small miniatures of God instructing Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit, the Temptation, the Expulsion from Eden, and the Labours of Adam and Eve;
f. 26r: Abraham rescues Lot;
f. 29r: Jacob serves meat to Isaac with Rebecca watching;
f. 31v: Joseph is sold into Egypt;
f. 36r: Moses in the bulrushes, the child Moses snatches Pharaoh's crown and he puts hot coals in his mouth, from the apocryphal Book of Jashar;
f. 38v: The Egyptians and their horses drowning in the Red Sea;
f. 40v: The angel appears to Balaam riding on an ass;
f. 46r: The infant Oedipus is hung by his feet in a tree;
f. 54v: Gideon's battle, with muskets and crossbows;
f. 62v: Paris and his ships at sea;
f. 68v: The sack of Troy;
f. 73v: The parting of Aeneas and Dido and the suicide of Dido;
f. 80r: Samson destroying the temple of the Philistines, outside foxes with burning tails set the corn fields alight;
f. 86v: David and Goliath;
f. 91r: Battle between David and the Philistines;
f. 94v: Absalom, caught in the tree, is murdered by Joab;
f. 99r: The building of Solomon's Temple;
f. 103v: Elijah before Ahab;
f. 111r: King Amulius orders Romulus and Remus to be killed: Faustus gives them to Lupa;
f. 118v: Nebuchadnezzar's army;
f. 121r: Tobias, the fish and the angel;
f. 123v: Daniel's three companions in a furnace;
f. 125v: Daniel is thrown in the lions' den;
f. 130r: Croesus is hanged;
f. 133r: Cyrus is beheaded in front of Queen Tomyris;
f. 137v: Judith with the head of Holofernes
f. 141r: Mucius puts his hand in the fire;
f. 149r: Esther kneeling before Ahasuerus;
f. 153v: Rome is invaded by the Gauls led by Brennus;
f. 158v: The combat between a Gaul and Marcus Valerius Corvus, helped by a crow;
f. 161r: The birth of Alexander;
f. 182r: Alexander and Bucephalus;
f. 199r: The battle between the Romans and Samnites;
f. 206r: Battle between the Romans and Pyrrhus' army with elephants;
f. 212r: Sea battle between the Romans and Carthaginians;
f. 221r: Hannibal before the walls of Rome;
f. 227r: Sea battle of Prusias of Byihinia and Eumenes;
f. 232r: Mattathias slays a Jew who is sacrificing to idols and a scene with peacocks outside;
f. 244r: Simon Maccabeus is murdered by his son-in-law, Ptolemy;
f. 248v: Battle on the Rhone between Quintus Fabius Maximus and the King of the Arverni;
f. 263r: The murder of Antigonus and the death of Aristobulus;
f. 286r: Mithridates invading a city;
f. 298v: Meeting of Caesar and Ariovistus.
f. 321v: The Romans with the head of Indutiomarus;
f. 326r: Julius Caesar's army fighting in Gaul;
f. 330v: Caesar crossing the Rubicon and his vision of Rome;
f. 339r: Pompei breaks through Caesar's barrier;
f. 343v: Pompei sails to Egypt;
f. 353r: Antipater, son of Herod is brought before Caesar;
f. 355v: The murder of Julius Caesar;
f. 363v: The death of Anthony and Cleopatra;
f. 365v: The Annunciation: Zacharias at the altar;
f. 371r: Salome with the head of St John the Baptist;
f. 375v: The martyrdom of St James.
According to Kren and McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance (2003), this manuscript was illuminated in c. 1480 and the large miniatures were painted by the Master of the Soane Josephus (ff. 21r, 54v, 80r, 111r, 137v, 158v, 199r, 232r, 263r, 330v, 355v, 365v), named after London, John Soane's Museum, MS 1, and the small miniatures attributed to the follower of Loyset Liédet, who was also responsible for some miniatures in Royal 15 D. i.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107569 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 18 E V : Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1716]/040-002107569
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100057738755.0x000001
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- Languages:
- French, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1473
- End Date:
- 1479
- Date Range:
- 1473 to 1479
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 465 x 325 mm (text space: 305 x 210mm).
Layout: Two columns of 38 lines.
Foliation: ff. 390 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Royal library binding of brown leather with the royal arms, the date of 1757, and gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Netherlands, S. (Bruges?).
Provenance:
Written in 1473: colophon 'Cy fine lhistoire tripartite / qui fut escripte et finee le / xxviie jour de mars lan de / lincarnation nostre seigne[u]r / mil iiii c lxxiii. / Libro finito sit laus et gloria Christo.' (f. 390r).
Edward IV (b. 1442, d. 1483), king of England and lord of Ireland, perhaps acquired by him.
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace in 1535, no. 1; included in the catalogue of 1666, f. 11v.
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 (p. 5).
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. 315-16.
Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Catalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages, 4 vols (London: The Warburg Institute, 1953), III: Manuscripts in English Libraries, pp. 216-17.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 908.
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. 26, 40).
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, p. 273.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H1.1.
Scott McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1550 (London: British Library, 2003), pl. 28.
Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), p. 292 [exhibition catalogue].
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 55 [exhibition catalogue].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)