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Detailed record for Royal 19 A IX
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| Author |
Gossuin de Metz |
| Title |
L'Image du monde |
| Origin |
Netherlands, S. (Bruges) |
| Date |
1464 |
| Language |
French |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Decoration |
5 miniatures with colours and gold (ff. 4, 5v, 8, 9, 149). Diagrams, with colours, of concentric circles (f. 41), showing the 'roundness' of the earth (f. 42), the shape and division of the earth into hemispheres, etc. (ff. 43, 43v, 44, 45v, 48, 48v, 49, 49v, 50), the planets and firmament (ff. 90, 100v, 102), day and night (ff. 104), the phases of the moon (f. 106), eclipses (ff. 107v, 108v, 110). Rubrics and page numbers in red. Small capitals at beginning of sentences highlighted in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
280 x 205 (195 x 130) |
| Official foliation |
ff. I + 152 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning, 1 after f. 151 and 1 at the end). |
| Collation |
Gatherings of 12 leaves. |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL In-house. Rebound in 1968. |
| Provenance |
Johan le Clerc, Bruges: inscribed 'en la ville de bruges en.....1464 par le comandement de Johan le clerc, librarier et bourgois dicelle ville de bruges' (f. 4v).
John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673): included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer (b. 1651): see E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6649.
Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no . 75.
Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.
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.
List of chapters (ff. 1-3).
This manuscript contains a unique prologue linking it to Caxton's printed editions (f. 4) and stating 'ce p[rese]nt volume appelle lymage du monde Et fu translate de latin en franchois p[ar] le co[m]mandement et ordonnance du noble duc Jehan de berry et d'auvergne l'an 1245'. Jean, duc de Berry (b. 1340, d. 1416).
The 'prologue du translateur', also found in other manuscripts, follows (f. 5). |
| Select bibliography |
O. H. Prior, L'image du monde de Maitre Gossouin (Lausanne: Librairie Payot, 1913), pp. 18-20, 57-204 [an edition of the text].
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, p. 320.
Marcel Destombes, Mappemondes 1200-1500: Catalogue prepare pour la Commission des Cartes Anciennes de l'Union Geographique Internationale (Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964), p. 145, no. 46.8.
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, II, p. 444.
Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold 800-1475 (Leuven: Davidsfonds, 2002), p. 325. |
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f. 4
Master and scholars |
f. 4
Master and scholars |
f. 4
Master and scholars |
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f. 5v
God the Creator |
f. 5v
God the Creator |
f. 8
Creation of earth |
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f. 9
Creation of Eve |
f. 41
Diagram |
f. 42
Diagrams |
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ff. 43v-44
Diagrams |
f. 104
Shadows of the earth |
f. 106
Phases of the moon |
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f. 149
Universe |
f. 149
The Universe |
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