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Detailed record for Royal 19 B XVII
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| Author |
Iacobus de Voragine, translated by Jean de Vignay |
| Title |
Legenda aurea |
| Origin |
France, Central (Paris) |
| Date |
1382 |
| Language |
French |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Artists |
Attributed to Pseudo-Jacquemart (ff. 2, 5, 9v) |
| Decoration |
1 large miniature in colours and gold, with full bar borders with vine extensions (f. 5). 79 single column miniatures in colours and gold with full or partial bar borders with vine extensions. Foliate initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of major text divisions, some with vine extensions, or partial borders. Paraphs in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Line-fillers in red and blue. |
| Dimensions in mm |
305 x 220 (185 x 150) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 355 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. 19th century. Gilt and gauffered edges. |
| Provenance |
Written in 1382: colophon, 'Ceste legende fut escript lan mil. ccc. quatre vins et deus'.
A member of the Beaufort family, perhaps Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond and Derby (b. 1443, d. 1509), royal matriarch: crowned arms of Beaufort, earls and dukes of Somerset with the Beaufort's badge of a portcullis, red roses of Lancaster, and the Beaufort's motto 'Me sovent sovant' (Souvent me souviens), late 15th century (f. 1v).
William Fitzalan, 16th Earl of Arundel (b. 1417, d. 1487): probably his autograph inscription 'My tryst ys. Arundell (f. 5).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 119; and in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11v.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Contains the Golden legend by Iacobus de Voragine translated in c. 1333-1348 by Jean de Vignay as Legende doree, originally for Jeanne de Bourgogne, queen of France (b. c. 1293, d. 1349), a translation that was very rare in England: see Sutton and Visser-Fuchs 1997 p. 64.
Catchwords and bifolium signatures. |
| 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. 11).
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. 330-31.
Schools of Illumination: Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, VI (London: British Museum, 1930), pl. 4a.
Millard Meiss, 'The Exhibition of French Manuscripts of the XIII-XVI Centuries at the Bibliothèque Nationale', The Art Bulletin, 38 (1956) 187-96 (p. 192).
Loren MacKinney, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 5, 2 parts bound together (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965), with Thomas Herndon, Part II, Medical Miniatures in Extant Manuscripts: A Checklist, no. 62.
Millard Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Late XIV Century and the Patronage of the Duke (London, 1967), I, p. 328.
Warren F. Manning, 'The Jean de Vignay Version of the Live of Saint Dominic', Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, 40 (1970), 29-46 (p. 45).
Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III’s Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince (Stroud, Gloucestershire, Sutton, 1997), p. 64 n. 90.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H1.99.
Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse, Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500, 2 vols (Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2000), I, p. 389, n. 66.
Deirdre Jackson, Marvellous to Behold: Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), p. 83, pl. 69.
Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 79 [exhibition catalogue]. |
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f. 1v
Beaufort's arms |
f. 2
Jerome |
f. 2
Jerome |
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f. 5
Saints |
f. 5
Saints |
f. 14
Nicholas |
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f. 15
Coronation of the Virgin |
f. 18v
Christ and Thomas |
f. 21v
Nativity |
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f. 26
Stephen |
f. 26
Stephen |
f. 28
John the Baptist |
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f. 30v
Slaughter of the Innocents |
f. 33v
Thomas of Canterbury |
f. 36v
The Circumcision of Christ |
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f. 39v
Epiphany |
f. 44
Hilary |
f. 46
Marcellus and Anthony |
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f. 48
Sebastian |
f. 48
Sebastian |
f. 48v
Sebastian |
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f. 50
Agnes |
f. 51v
Vincent |
f. 55v
John the Almoner |
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f. 59
Paula |
f. 59
Paula |
f. 61v
Julian |
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f. 63v
Bishop |
f. 68
Presentation in the Temple |
f. 73
Agatha and Peter |
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f. 76v
Peter |
f. 78v
Apostles |
f. 80v
Gregory |
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f. 86v
Benedict |
f. 91
Annunciation |
f. 94
Crucifixion |
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f. 99
Resurrection |
f. 105
Ambrose |
f. 109
George |
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f. 109
George |
f. 111
Mark |
f. 113v
Marcellinus |
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f. 116v
Peter Martyr |
f. 116v
Peter Martyr |
f. 122
Philip |
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f. 122v
James the Less |
f. 126
Invention of the Cross |
f. 167v
Margaret |
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f. 176v
James |
f. 266
Cosmas and Damian |
f. 297
Simon and Jude |
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