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Dit du roy Guillaume d'Angleterre

Manuscript
c.1893 (made)
Artist/Maker
Steger, Eugene (maker)
Place of origin
Paris (made)

71 pages
Illuminated manuscript. The text is a version of the romance of Guillaume d'Angleterre by Chrétien de Troyes. Illuminations (incorporating gold leaf ; including 13 full-page) copied in taste of Gothic revival from manuscripts in the Bibliothèque nationale.
Leaves numbered in ink 1-39.
Bound in vellum over boards.


Object details

Categories
National Art Library
Manuscripts
Object type
manuscript
TitleDit du roy Guillaume d'Angleterre (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Paper
Ink
Gold
Platinum
Pigments
Parchment
Calligraphy
Illumination
Brief description
Manuscript, S'ensuit le roman du duc Guillaume lequel en son vivant fut roy d'Angleterre et duc de Normandie, after Chrétien de Troyes, Paris, c.1893.
Physical description
71 pages
Illuminated manuscript. The text is a version of the romance of Guillaume d'Angleterre by Chrétien de Troyes. Illuminations (incorporating gold leaf ; including 13 full-page) copied in taste of Gothic revival from manuscripts in the Bibliothèque nationale.
Leaves numbered in ink 1-39.
Bound in vellum over boards.
Dimensions
  • Depth: 33cm
Production typeUnique
Object history
Purchased from Les Enluminures, Paris, in 1995 (see Catalogue 2, 1993, p. 90, no. 21).
Bibliographic references
  • Watson, R. Western Illuminated Manuscripts.Victoria and Albert Museum. A catalogue of works in the National Art Library from the eleventh to the early twentieth century, with a complete account of the George Reid Collection. London, 2011. Vol. 3, no. 243.
  • Yvard, Catherine, 'Le Roman de Guillaume d'Angleterre d'Eugène Steger (MSL 1995/6)', in Histoire et civilisation du livre, XVII (2021), pp. 265-287.
Other number
86.ZZ.157 - NAL Pressmark
Collection
National Art Library
Library number
MSL/1995/6

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Record createdMarch 30, 2017
Record URL
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