1454 : Commentarii de bello gallico
Number
1454
Shelf Marks
- Kobenhavn, KB, Thott 544 fol
Owners before c.1550
- Pierre de Luxembourg
- Philip of Cleves
- Hendrik III of Nassau
Commissioners
- Pierre de Luxembourg ?
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
Denmark
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean Duchesne(?)
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : 1474 (c.1470-1490 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 339 (18+321) leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 370 mm
- Width of text blocks : 280 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 4
- Number of miniatures : 4
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
"A james"
Miniaturists
- M Pierre de Luxembourg's Caesar
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Julius Caesar
Translators
- Jean Du Quesne (Jean Du Chesne)
Contents
- 1 : Commentarii de bello gallico
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 248, of Philip of Cleves
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, (Master Edward IV)
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, 519 (not M Edward IV)
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.302, 442
N.C.L. Abrahams, Description des manuscrits français du moyen âge de la Bibliothèque Royale de Copenhague, Copenhagen 1844, no. 27
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010: Pierre de Luxembourg, no. 06
Hanno Wijsman, ‘Les manuscrits de Pierre de Luxembourg (v. 1440-1482) et les bibliothèques nobiliaires dans les Pays-Bas bourguignons de la deuxième moitié du xve siècle’, dans : Le Moyen Age, 113, 2007, p. 613-637: Pierre de Luxembourg, no. 06
Anne Korteweg, ‘La bibliothèque de Philippe de Clèves: inventaire et manuscrits parvenus jusqu’à nous’, Jelle Haemers, Céline Van Hoorebeeck, Hanno Wijsman (eds.), Entre la ville, la noblesse et l’état. Philippe de Clèves (1456-1528), homme politique et bibliophile (Burgundica, 13), Turnhout 2007, 183-221: Philip of Cleves, no. 013
A.D. Renting & J.T.C. Renting-Kuijpers, with notes on the manuscripts by A.S. Korteweg, The Seventeenth-Century Orange-Nassau Library: the Catalogue Compiled by Anthonie Smets in 1686, the 1749 Auction Catalogue, and other Contemporary Sources. Edition with Introduction and Notes, Utrecht 1993: Nassau, no. 1360
Arie de Fouw, Philips van Kleef: een bijdrage tot de kennis van zijn leven en karakter, Groningen 1937: Philip of Cleves, no. 10