1445 : Metamorphoses (moralisés)
Number
1445
Shelf Marks
- Kobenhavn, KB, Thott 399 fol
Owners before c.1550
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Commissioners
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Country
Denmark
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1480
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 471 (25+446) leaves
- Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
- Height of text blocks : 435 mm
- Width of text blocks : 335 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 3 large, 41 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 44
- Number of miniatures : 44
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Bruges 1482
- M Rambures (follower ?)
- other hands
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern (brown leather over paste board)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Ovidius
- Berchorius
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Metamorphoses (moralisés)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Anne-Marie Legaré, ‘The Master of Antoine Rolin. A Hainaut Illuminator Working in the Orbit of Simon Marmion’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Visions of Tondal. Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections (June 21-24, 1990), Los Angeles 1992, 209-222, ill. p.91
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Edward IV ?, M Brugge 1482
François Avril & Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, Paris 1993, p.097
Alain Arnould & Jean Michel Massing, Splendours of Flanders. Late Medieval Art in Cambridge Collections, Cambridge 1993, no. 76
Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996 (cat. no. 01)
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.295-6 (not M Edward IV)
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.119, 200
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. 408
M.D. Henkel, De houtsneden van Mansion’s Ovide moralisé, Bruges 1484, Amsterdam 1922
N.C.L. Abrahams, Description des manuscrits français du moyen âge de la Bibliothèque Royale de Copenhague, Copenhagen 1844, no. 25
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 02337-44