Made in Bruges (Flanders) between 14, this illuminated manuscript was probably realized for a sophisticated patron of the Burgundian Court. This unusual page color is due to the extremely corrosive process used to dye the vellum with iron gall ink. An Obscure Illuminated Manuscript : The Black Hours Black Hours Manuscript, created in Bruges, 1475-1480 CE, via the Morgan Library and MuseumĪmong the most curious of all illuminated manuscripts, the Black Hours strikes our contemporary eyes with its unique dark blueish shades. 19, 25.Įlizabeth Morrison, Beasts: Factual & Fantastic (Los Angeles: J. Sophie Page, Magic in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2004), pp. Pamela Porter, Courty Love in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), p. Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscript (London: British Library, 2002), p. Minta Collins, Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative Traditions (London: British Library, 2000), pp. as Medieval Medical Miniatures, 1984), pp. Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn (London: British Library, 1998 first publ.
Michael Camille, The Medieval Art of Love: Objects and Subjects of Desire (London: Laurence King, 1998), pp.
by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburghe Club, 1988), p. Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. by Wolfram Prinz and Andreas Beyer (Cologne: Acta humaniora, 1987), pp. Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, ‘Toward the Scientific Naturalism: Aspects of Botanical and Zoological Iconography in Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Second Half of XV century’, in Die Kunst und das Studium der Natur vom 14. Peter Jones, 'Secreta Salernitana', Kos (1984), 33-50. Peter Murray Jones, Medieval Medical Miniatures (London: British Library, 1984), p. Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), pl. įelix Andreas Baumann, Das Erbario Carrarese und die Bildtradition des Tractatus de herbis, Berner Schriften zur Kunst, 12 (Bern: Benteli, 1974), esp. (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1868-1881), I, 373-380.Ĭatalogue of Additional Manuscripts: Sloane 4015-4047 (London: British Museum unpublished manuscript of unedited descriptions, no date), no. 71.įor Foucault's library generally see Léopold Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Impériale : Étude sur la formation de ce dépôt 3 vols. This manuscript is classified by Baumann as one of the 'North Italian group' and as a copy of Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, MS Masson 116 see also Collins 2000 pp. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in 1753.įull digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at. 1).įormer shelfmark (?) '5Vh', and crossed out (ff. 1753), baronet, physician and collector: inscription 'Bibliotheca Sloaniana' (f. 1721), marquis de Magny, statesman and archaeologist: his book-plate with the legend 'EX BIBLIOTHECA | NICOLAI JOSEPH FOUCAULT | COMITIS CONSISTORIANI' with his arms a lion rampant, dexter, crowned, as supporters two lions a couronne de marquis surmounting the shield (f. Green leather with blind tooling in form of flowers and fleur-de-lys. 10 + 3 unfoliated paper leaves at the beginning and at the end) Full-page miniatures of plants in colours, usually predominantly in green and brown, with captions and often with animals or people, on each folio.įf.
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