1230 : Livre de la chasse Livre de l'ordre de chevalerie
Number
1230
Shelf Marks
- Cambridge (MA), Houghton Library, typ 130
- Ph. Hofer
- Kraus, In Retrospect, no. 83
- USA, Fam. Gontaut-Saint-Blancard (1873)
Owners before c.1550
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Louis XII of France
Commissioners
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jan van Kriekenborch
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent
-
Date
- Date details : 1485-1486
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 124 leaves
- Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
- Height of text blocks : 394 mm
- Width of text blocks : 290 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 1 large, 85 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 86
- Number of miniatures : 86
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Flemish Boetius
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (unbound manuscript)
- Dating : (no binding)
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Gaston Phoebus
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Livre de la chasse
- 2 : Livre de l'ordre de chevalerie
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 113, 115, p.214
Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, p.309
Pascal Schandel & Ilona Hans-Collas, with the collaboration of Hanno Wijsman and scientific advice by François Avril, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux, Vol. I: Louis de Bruges, Paris-Leuven 2009, p.218, 225, 253
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.358, 366-367
Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 426, 428
Roger S. Wieck, Late medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, 1350-1525, in the Houghton Library, Cambridge (Mass.) 1983, no. 25 (ill. p. 53 (f.95v)
Claudine Lemaire, ‘Lijst van handschriften’, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992: Lodewijk van Gruuthuse, no. 047
Online Informations and images
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