1520: Chants royaux sur la Conception

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Source:

Title: ‘Chants royaux sur la Conception, couronnés au puy de Rouen de 1519 à 1528.’
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Current location: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des manuscrits.
Year: 1520
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Comments:

Figure 7, folio 29v, in a manuscript ‘Chants royaux sur la Conception, couronnés au puy de Rouen de 1519 à 1528.’

A list on folio 4r states at Chant Royal 7: ‘Le grand Recteur, qui désoler console R. Le Doctrinal sans macule imprimé.’ and a date 1520. [Scan] [This might not be the year that the miniature was finished?]

A description on folio 9v of the seventh figure states: ‘(excellente. Une Imprimerie complette, avec tous les Instrumens et Ouvriez nécessaires: Il y a un correcteur en Robe rouge.’ [Scan]

Lotte Hellinga (2015), page 345 describes: ‘... a lavishly produced collection of fifty religious poems by various authors ... Several of the poems are preceded by a full-page miniature. The miniature depicting the printing house precedes the eighth poem - ‘Le Doctrinal sans macule imprimé’ by Nicole Lescarre, ... The miniature is copied from one of the printer’s devices of Josse Badius, famous because it is one of the earliest images of a printing press.’

Nigel Roche (2000, page 31): ‘A miniature in the Cabinet des Manuscrits, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, called by Audin L’atelier au xvi-e siècle’.

Technique:

Miniature on vellum.

Publications

A. Blum and Ph. Lauer (1930) La Miniature française ausx XVe et XVIe siècles, Paris. [p. 101, pl. CXII].

A. Claudin (1904) Histoire de l’imprimerie en France au XVe et au XVIe siècle. III. Paris. (en regard de la p. 322).

Jacques Guignard (1951) L’Art du livre à l’Imprimerie nationale. Paris. [no 50].

Lotte Hellinga (2015) ‘Rewriting Arthurian Romance in Renaissance France: From Manuscript to Printed Book. By Jane H. M. Taylor.’ The Library, 16(3), 343-346.

Nigel Roche (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration #G4).