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Alexander from BL Royal 20 B XX, f. 24
Christine's vision from BL Harley 4431, f. 192v
Plotting against Moses from BL Royal 2 B VII, f. 26v
Ponthus killing Broadas from BL Royal 15 E VI, f. 222
Pope and cardinals from BL Royal 10 E IV, f. 4
Boccaccio presenting his book from BL Royal 16 G V, f. 2
A writer presents his book to four women
Concilium zu Constanz., 15th century, Augsburg, Bavaria
The Battle of the Amalekites; Moses Raising his Arms in Prayer
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Philosophy from BL Royal 6 E IX, f. 27
Philosophy from BL Royal 6 E IX, f. 27
Virtues from BL Royal 6 E IX, f. 7
Puzzle initial from BL Royal 6 E IX, f. 26
Cherubs from BL Royal 6 E IX, f. 6
Apostles from BL Royal 6 E IX, f. 7v
Confessors from BL Royal 6 E IX, f. 8
Four Muses from BL Royal 6 E IX, f. 29v
Archangels from BL Royal 6 E IX, f. 7
Seven Liberal Arts from BL Royal 6 E IX, f. 29
Summary
Miniature of the personification of the Seven Liberal Arts: Astronomy, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, Rhetoric, Logic and Grammar. Image taken from f. 29 of Address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato in Tuscany (the 'Regia Carmina'). Written in Latin.
The BL Royal Manuscript Collection, also known as the Royal Collection, consists of over 2,000 manuscripts that were once owned by the British monarchs, including English and later British kings and queens from the late 12th to the 19th centuries. These manuscripts are notable for their historical and artistic value.
The collection was initially stored in various royal libraries and palaces, such as the Tower of London and Westminster Palace. During the English Civil War in the 17th century and the subsequent Interregnum, many royal treasures, including manuscripts, were dispersed and sold. Some manuscripts were lost, destroyed, or ended up in private hands.
In 1757, King George II donated the Old Royal Library to the British Museum (which later became the British Library), where the manuscripts were integrated into the museum's collections. This marked the formal establishment of the Royal Manuscript Collection within the British Museum.
Convenevole from Prato (between 1270 and 1275 - Prato , 1338 ) was a writer , notary , ambassador and educator. Notary, master of the disciplines of the trivium ( grammar , rhetoric and dialectic), was a teacher of Francesco Petrarch and his brother Gherardo, instructing both in the grammar and rhetoric as their father, the notary ser Petracco of Porec intended to make both of them lawyers. Petrarch remained under the Convenevole guide until 1316, when, again at the behest of his father, he was sent with his brother to study law in Montpellier. There is no definite information on the master's birth date, but, as he tells us Petrarch, in the year of death had to have an advanced age. He was a great teacher but a restless nature and upset, unaccustomed to practical life, according to Petrarch. The literary work of Convenevole often consisted of poems started and never finished. It seems, however, that some finished works attributed to the master exist: a collection of liturgical verses, about 3700, entitled Regia Carmina, and dedicated to King Robert of Anjou. In the book of Carmina Regia, the author does not sign his own name, but simply write " Professor pratensis ", which has also created a discussion on the actual authorship. When Convenevole died in 1338, the people of Prato wanted Petrarca to write an the epigraph for him, but he refused, since the master never forgave him the lost book of Cicero , entitled De Gloria.
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