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Detailed record for Stowe 582
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| Title |
Le Sacre de Claude de France |
| Origin |
France, Central (Paris) |
| Date |
c. 1517 |
| Language |
French |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Artists |
Probably Jean Coene IV |
| Decoration |
10 large miniatures in frames, in colours and gold (ff. 3, 18v, 32v, 34, 35, 36v, 38, 39, 43, 51v); 1 miniature not executed, except the underdrawing of the frame (f. 46v). Large decorated initials in gold on red and blue grounds. Smaller initials and line-fillers in gold on red or blue grounds. |
| Dimensions in mm |
220 x 150 (150 x 95) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 51 (+ 2 paper flyleaves after f. 1; + 4 paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Gold tooled red leather, with the with the arms of Philippe, Comte de Béthune; marbled endpapers. |
| Provenance |
Description of the coronation of Claude de France in St-Denis in 1517.
Philippe, Comte de Béthune (d. 1649): binding with his arms.
? Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: inscribed title of the manuscript in his handwriting? (ff. 1v, 2v).
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham: inscribed with the press-mark 'Press 8 no. 54' (f. 1), corresponding to his catalogue (O'Conor 1818-1819).
Richard Plantagenet Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos; sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. |
| Notes |
On Jean Coene IV see gnerally Eberhard König, Boccaccio und Petrarca in Paris, Leuchtendes Mittelalter Neue Folge, (Passau: Passavia, 1997- ), I (1997), 320. |
| Select bibliography |
Charles O'Conor, Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Stowe Library, 2 vols (Buckingham: Seeley, 1818-1819), II, 517.
Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), no. 582.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), p. 180, pl. 109. |
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ff. 18v-19
Church mass |
f. 18v
Detail |
ff. 32v-33
Claude de France |
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f. 32v
Detail |
f. 32v
Queen |
f. 34
Miniature of three woman. |
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f. 35
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f. 36v
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f. 38v
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f. 39
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f. 43
Saint Louis and his mother |
f. 51v
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