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Detailed record for Egerton 2709
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| Author |
Pierre Boutier and Jehan le Verrier |
| Title |
Conquête et les conquérants des Iles Canaries |
| Origin |
France |
| Date |
c. 1405 (after 1404 and before 1420) |
| Language |
French |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Artists |
Attributed to the workshop of the Master of the Cité des Dames (see Meiss 1974). |
| Decoration |
1 large miniature, accompanied by a large decorated initial and a partial foliate border with dragon, in colours and gold (f. 2). Large and small decorated initials with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold. |
| Dimensions in mm |
265 x 180 (180 x 110) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 36 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 2 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
After 1404: the expedition to the Canary Islands, described in this account by two of its chaplains, was undertaken in 1402-1404 by two French knights named Gadifer de la Sale and Jehan de Béthencourt.
Philip the Good (b. 1396, d. 1467), Duke of Burgundy, by 1420: mentioned in his inventory of 1420 as 'Item ung autre livre nomme le Livre de Canare escript en parchemin de lettre de forme a une histoire enlumine dor commencant ou IIe fueillet Et pour ce et ou derrenier Les gens couvert de cuir rouge a II fermouers de laton' (see Georges Doutrepont, Inventaire de la librairie de Philippe le Bon, 1420 (Bruxelles: Kiessling, 1906), no. 146).
Bought by the British Museum from E. Maus d'Heusch, 30 October 1888 (note on 2nd flyleaf), using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum, 1894), no. Eg. 2709.
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 115.
Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Late XIV Century and the Patronage of the Duke, 2 vols, National Gallery of Art Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, 2 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1967), p. 356.
Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and their Contemporaries, 2 vols (London: Thames and Hudson, 1974), I, pp. 379, 419.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997), no. 119.
Joe Flatman, Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2009), pl. 71. |
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f. 2
Ship with armed men |
f. 2
Ship with armed men |
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