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Christine de Pisan, Regnaut de Montauban, Gilles de Rome; Alain Chartier and others |
| Title |
Poems and Romances (the 'Talbot Shrewsbury book'), containing the Roman d'Alexandre en prose (ff. 5-24v); Simon de Pouille, Aspremont, and Fierabras (ff. 25-85v);Chanson of Ogier (ff. 86-154v) Quatre fils Aymon (ff. 155-206); Pontus and Sidoine (ff. 207-226v); Guy de Warwik (ff. 227-265); Heraud d'Ardenne (ff. 266v-272); Chanson of the Chevalier au Cygne (ff. 273-292); L'arbre de batailes (ff. 293-325v); Livres du gouvernement des rois (ff. 327-361); Chroniques de Normandie (ff. 363-401); Alain Chartier, Breviaire des nobles (ff. 403-404v); Les fais d'armes et de chevalerie (ff. 405-438); Statutes of the Order of the Garter (ff. 439-440v). |
| Origin |
France, N. (Rouen) |
| Date |
1444-1445 |
| Language |
French |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Artists |
Talbot Master, The Master of Lord Hoo's Book of Hours, a follower of the Beauford Master |
| Decoration |
2 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 3, 4v), and 12 two-column miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 2v, 5, 25, 70, 155, 207, 227, 273, 363, 403, 405. 439) with full borders, and 4 one-column miniatures in colours and gold with full or partial borders (ff. 86, 273, 293, 327), at the beginning of each text. 126 smaller miniatures in colours and gold within text columns, with marginal ivy extensions forming partial borders; some with instructions to illuminators (e.g., ff. 222, 22v, 223v, 225v). Contour of a banner covered by the border (ff. 86, 363). Foliate initials in colours and gold. Initials in gold on rose and blue grounds with penwork decoration in white. Line-fillers in blue, rose and gold with penwork decoration in white. Cadels. |
| Dimensions in mm |
475 x 335 (335 x 230) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 440 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end; f. 1 is a medieval parchment flyleaf; 1 blank leaf after f. 3) |
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Parchment codex |
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BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
John Talbot, 1st earl of Shrewsbury and 1st earl of Waterford (b. c.1387, d. 1453), commissioned by him in Rouen as a wedding gift for Margaret of Anjou for her marriage to Henry VI in 1445: his arms with the arms of his wife, Margaret Beauchamp, in pretence (ff. 2v, 4v, 5, 25, 70, 155, 207, 227, 405, 439), and a presentation scene of John Talbot giving the book to queen Margaret (f. 2v).
Margaret [Margaret of Anjou] (b. 1430, d. 1482), queen of England, consort of Henry VI: addressed to her 'Princesse tres excellente / ce livre cy vous presente / De schrosbery le conte'; the royal arms of England and Anjou (ff. 2v, 3, 4v, 5, 25, 70, 155, 207, 227, 405, 439), daisies (marguerites) referring to her name (ff. 2v, 4v, etc).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le bon roy Alexandre' in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 91; included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12v.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
The volume contains:
List of contents (f. 1v);
Dedicatory verses (f. 2v);
Genealogical table of descendants of Saint Louis (f. 3);
Roman d'Alexandre en prose, a version of the Historia de proelis in French about Alexander, king of Macedonia (b. 356 B. C., d. 323 B.C.), only child of king Philip and Queen Olympias, emperor of Greece and Persia (ff. 5-24v);
3 Carolingian Chansons de Geste (Songs of heroic deeds), epic poems : Simon de Pouille, Aspremont, and Fierabras (ff. 25-85v);
Chanson of Ogier (ff. 86-154v);
Regnaut de Montauban, Quatre fils Aymon (ff. 155-206);
Pontus and Sidoine (ff. 207-226v);
Guy de Warwik and Heraud d'Ardenne (prose romances, ff. 227-265, 266v-272);
Chanson of the Chevalier au Cygne (ff. 273-292);
L'arbre de batailes (ff. 293-325v);
Gilles de Rome, De regimine principium translated in French by Henri de Gauchi as the Livres du gouvernement des rois (ff. 327-361);
Chroniques de Normandie (ff. 363-401);
Alain Chartier, Breviaire des nobles (ff. 403-404v);
Christine de Pisan, Les fais d'armes et de chevalerie (ff. 405-438);
Statutes of the Order of the Garter (ff. 439-440v).
Illuminated by the Talbot Master and his workshop, an artist active in Rouen, named after this manuscript; and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 40.1950, the 'John Talbot Book of Hours'; and by three other illuminators, the Master of the Lord Hoo's Book of Hours (bifolium ff. 21-24), an artist working in the Bedford Master's style (bifolium ff. 4v, 22-23), and an unnamed illuminator of ff. 266v and 293 (see Reynolds 1993).
Catchwords. |
| Select bibliography |
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Campbell Dodgson, 'Alexander's Journey to the Sky: A Woodcut by Schäufelein', Burlington Magazine, 6 (1904-05), pp. 395-401 (p. 396, Pl. I).
Paul Durrieu 'Les souvenir historiques dans les manuscrits à miniatures de la domination anglaise en France au temp de Jeanne d'Arc', Annuaire-Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de France (1905), 1-25 (pp. 20-23).
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I, pp. 129, 469, 487, 598, 604, 615, 622, 627, 708.
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), I, p. xi n. 3, II, pp. 177-79.
[J. A. Herbert], British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 2, 3rd edn (London: British Museum, 1923), pl. 29.
The Book of Fayttes of Armes and Chyualrye, trans. By William Caxton, ed. by A.T.P. Byles, Early English Text Society: Original Series, 189 (London: Early English Text Society, 1932), pp. xvi-xvii.
F. Taylor, 'Some Manuscripts of the 'Libelle of Englyshe Polycye'', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 12 (1940), 3-45 (p. 44, n. 3).
Joan Evans, English Art 1307-1461, Oxford History of English Art, 5 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1949), p. 92.
D. J. A. Ross, 'Nectanebus in his Palace: A Problem of Alexander Iconography', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 15 (1952) 67-87 (pp. 69, 71-73).
Francis Wormald and Phyllis M. Giles, 'A Handlist of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: Part III', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 5 (1953), 365-76 (p. 366).
Jacques Thomas, 'Les mises en prose de Renaut de Montauban: classement sommaire et sources', in Fin du moyen âge et Renaissance: Mélanges offert à Robert Guiete (Anvers, 1961), pp. 127-37 (pp. 128, 129, n. 3, 131, 2, 133, n. 5, 136-37).
Benedicta J. H. Rowe, 'Notes on the Clovis Miniature and the Bedford Portrait in the Bedford Book of Hours', Journal of the Archaeological Association, 35 (1962), 56-65 (p. 60, n. 5).
D. J. A. Ross, 'Olympias and the Serpent: The Interpretation of a Baalbek Mosaic and the Date of the Illustrated Pseudo-Callisthenes', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 26 (1963) 1-21 (pp. 6, 8, n. 35).
Stelio Bassi, 'I manoscritti francesi della Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino', Studi Francesi, 19 (1963), 53-56 (p. 53).
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. 56.
David J. A. Ross, 'The Iconography of Roland', Medium Aevum, 1 (1968), 46-65 (p. 58).
Margaret Kekewich, 'Edward IV, William Caxton, and Literary Patronage in Yorkist England', The Modern Language Review, 66 (1971) 481-87 (p. 485).
D. Byrne, 'The Hours of the Admiral Prigent de Coëtivy', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 28 (1974) 148-61 (p. 254, n. 16).
A. de Mandach, 'A Royal Wedding-Present in Making: Talbot's chivalric Anthology (London, B.M., Royal 15. E VI.) for Queen Margaret of Anjou and the 'laval-Middleton' Anthology of Nottingham (Univ. Lib. Mi. LM. 6)', Nottingham Medieval Studies, 18 (1974), 56-76 (pp. 56, 59, 61, passim)
Charles Ross, Edward IV (London: Eyre Methuen), 1974, p. 266.
Leslie L. Wiliams, 'A Rouen Book of Hours of the Sarum Use, c. 1444, Belonging to Thomas, Lord Hoo, Chancellor of Normandy and France', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 75 (1975), 189-212 (pp. 191, 211, pl. VIII).
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. 898.
J. J. G. Alexander, 'Painting and Manuscript Illumination for Royal Patrons in the Later Middle Ages', in English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages, ed. by V. J. Scattergood and J. W. Sherborne (London: Duckworth, 1983), pp. 141-62 (p. 151, pl. 12).
The Old French Crusade Cycle 10 vols (Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1977-2003), II (1985) 'Le Chevalier au Cygne' and 'La Fin d'Elias' ed. by Jan Nelson, pp. xiii, xxvii, xxix.
David J. A. Ross, Studies in the Alexander Romance (London: Pindar, 1985), pp. 173, 317.
François Avril and Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à Peintures en France 1440-1520 (Paris: Flammarion, 1993), pp. 37, 170 [exhibition catalogue].
C. F. Briggs, 'Manuscripts of Giles de Rome's De Regimine Principium in England, 1300-1500', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 47 (1993), 60-73 (p. 69).
Cathrine Reynolds, 'The Shrewsbury Book, British Library Royal MS. 15.E.VI', Medieval Art, Architecture, and Archeology at Rouen, The British Archeological Association Conference Transactions for the year 1986, 12, ed. by J. Stratford (Leeds, 1993), pp. 109-16.
Cathrine Reynolds, 'English Patrons and French Artists in Fifteenth Century Normandy', in England and Normandy in the Middle Ages, ed by D. Bates and A. Curry (London: Hambledon Press, 1994), pp. 299-313 (p. 305).
V. M. Schmidt, A Legend and its Image: The Aerial Flight of Alexander the Great in Medieval Art (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1995), no. 43, pp.183-84, and passim.
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