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1616  :  Cyropaedia

Number

1616


Shelf Marks

  • Genève, BGE, fr 75
  • Petau

Owners before c.1550

  • Engelbert II of Nassau

Commissioners

  • Engelbert II of Nassau ?
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

Switzerland


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1490-1500
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1490 - 1499

Physical description

Measurements

  • 173 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 360 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 255 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 1 large, 7 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 8
  • Number of miniatures : 8
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Prayer Books c.1500

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 17th c. (leather)
  • Dating : 1600-1700


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Xenophon

Translators

  • Vasco da Lucena

Contents

  • 1 : Cyropaedia

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Thomas Kren, ‘Flemish Manuscript Illumination 1475-1550’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts. Treasures from the British Library, New York-Malibu-London 1983, 1-86, p.056 (n.21)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Prayer Books c.1500

Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], p. 034

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.394-5, 401 (M Prayer Books c.1500)

Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.126

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.462-463

Danielle Gallet-Guerne, Vasque de Lucène et la Cyropédie à la Cour de Bourgogne (1470). Le traité de Xenophon mis en français d’après la version latine du Pogge. Étude. Édition des livres I et V (Travaux d’humanisme et renaissance, 140), Geneva 1974, (7 ill.)

Heinz Matile et al., Die Burgunderbeute und Werke burgundischer Hofkunst: Bernisches Historisches Museum, exhib. cat., Bern 1969, no. 231 (ill f.8)

Bernard Gagnebin, L’enluminure de Charlemagne à Francois Ier. Les manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Genève, Geneva 1976, no. 74 (1 ill. f.8)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman