1249 : Legenda aurea
Number
1249
Shelf Marks
- Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 22
Owners before c.1550
- Johann von Oettingen
Commissioners
/
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Hainaut
- Details : Flanders + Hainaut
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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