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Detailed record for Royal 20 C I
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| Title |
Les faits des Romains |
| Origin |
France, N. |
| Date |
1st quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
French |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Decoration |
3 large miniature in colours, gold, and silver with full or partial borders (f. 1, 117, 247v). 23 one-column miniatures in colours, gold, and/or silver (ff. 24v, 42, 65v, 97v, 107v, 130v, 141, 150v, 167, 181, 191v, 207v, 225, 258, 271v, 274v, 280, 286v, 287, 287v, 288v, 292, 293). Foliate initials in colours and gold with ivy extensions or partial borders, at the beginning of books. Initials and paraphs in gold on blue and rose grounds with penwork decoration in white, initials with ivy extensions. |
| Dimensions in mm |
385 x 290 (245 x 170) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 295 (+ 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf attached to a modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end, 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 2 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaves at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Royal Library parchment binding. Gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 4 (but according to Carley the entry 'Lucan Suetone corresponds to a printed edition of 1490); and in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f, 13v.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Catchwords and bifolium signatures; Instructions for rubrics in the lower margins, mostly trimmed. |
| Select bibliography |
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. 370-71.
Louis-Fernand Flutre, Les Manuscrits des Faits des Romains (Paris: Hachette, 1932), pp. 44-45.
Robert L. Wyss, Dei Caesarteppiche und ihr ikonographiches Verhältnis zur Illustration der 'Faits des Romains' im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert (Bern: K. J. Wyss, 1957), p. 69.
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, 109-38 (p. 114).
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H1.4. |
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f. 1
Caesar |
f. 24v
Caesar receiving a letter |
f. 42
Gauls attacking |
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f. 65v
Death of Indutiomarius |
f. 97v
Attack on a Roman tent |
f. 107v
Cadorix assisting Caesar's escape |
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f. 117
Caesar's vision of Rome |
f. 130v
Pompeius' dream of Julia |
f. 141
Battle of Ilerda |
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f. 150
Pompeius |
f. 150v
Pompeius in council |
f. 167
Dream of Pompeius |
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f. 181
Pompeius being met by his wife |
f. 191v
Embarkation of Pompeians |
f. 207v
Caesar entering Alexendria |
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f. 207v
Caesar entering Alexandria |
f. 225
Battle with Juba |
f. 247v
Octavius |
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f. 258
Tiberius |
f. 271v
Caligula crowning Herod Agrippa |
f. 274v
Claudius and Herod |
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f. 280
Nero and Seneca |
f. 286v
Death of Galba |
f. 287
Death of Otho |
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f. 287v
Capture of Vitellius |
f. 288v
Josephus offering books to Vespasian |
f. 292
Titus giving gifts |
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f. 293
Domitian |
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