Archives Mensuelles: août 2014

Appel aux dons à la BnF: la « Déscription des douze Césars » de François Ier

C’est le dernier de trois manuscrits quasi identiques, enluminés vers 1520 dans un atelier de Tours par Jean Bourdichon et très probablement commandés par le roi de France, François Ier. Les deux autres exemplaires de la Description des douze Césars avec leurs figures sont conservés à la Bibliothèque de Genève en Suisse et au Walters […]

On Scotland’s independence and the importance of History

700 years ago, in early summer of the year 1314, took place the battle of Bannockburn near Stirling castle in Scotland. The Scottish victory of king Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) over English king Edward II (1284-1327) and his army led to the declaration of Arbroath in 1320, and eventually to the Independence of Scotland in […]

16th century cloaks: Lord Seton’s red golden ‘mante’

George Seton was born in 1531 in Tranent, East Lothian. The Latin inscription from the wall of the Seton Collegiate Church in the Lothians states, that George had been living in France as a boy. After his father’s death in 1549, he returned to Scotland to become 5th Lord Seton. Soon afterwards, he was appointed […]