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1249  :  Legenda aurea

Number

1249


Shelf Marks

  • Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 22

Owners before c.1550

  • Johann von Oettingen

Commissioners

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Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Hainaut
    • Details : Flanders + Hainaut
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1480-1490 + c.1510
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • 269 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 392 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 298 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations : 146
  • Number of miniatures : 146
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Dresden Prayer Book
  • M Margareta van Liedekerke

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 16th c.(?): red velvet and calf over wooden boards
  • Dating : 1550-1600


Content

Genre

Authors

  • Jacobus de Voragine

Translators

  • Jean de Vignay

Contents

  • 1 : Legenda aurea

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Brigitte Dekeyser & Jan Van der Stock, Manuscripts in Transition. Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002) (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 15), Leuven 2005, p.415

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.339 (n.20)

Nigel Morgan & Stella Panayotova, with the assistance of Martine Meuwese, Elisabeth New, Suzanne Reynolds, Hanna Vorholt, Andrea Worm, A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part I: The Low Countries, Germania, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary, 2 vols., Cambridge 2009, no. 234

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.466-467

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. 412, 418

Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010: Johann von Oettingen, no. 8

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 00640-61

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman