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1621  :  Livre de la chasse

Number

1621


Shelf Marks

  • Genève, BGE, fr 169
  • Paul Pétau (d.1614)

Owners before c.1550

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
  • Louis XII of France

Commissioners

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

Switzerland


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1485-1490
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • 104 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 380 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 260 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 1 large, 85 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 86
  • Number of miniatures : 86
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Bruges 1482 (and workshop) (after Houghton. typ 130 ?)
  • M Chattering Hands ?

Material

Mixed (paper + parchment)

Binding

  • Description : 17th c.
  • Dating : 1600-1700


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Gaston Phoebus

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Livre de la chasse

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 113, coul. pl. 29 (frontispiece)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Brugge 1482

Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992, cat. no. 16 (ill. p.191 (f.1))

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.72, 200-201

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.358, 367, 580 (M Chattering Hands, no. 10)

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. 345, 348

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 258

Bernard Gagnebin, L’enluminure de Charlemagne à Francois Ier. Les manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Genève, Geneva 1976, no. 72 (3 ill.)

Claudine Lemaire, ‘Lijst van handschriften’, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992: Lodewijk van Gruuthuse, no. 049

Online Informations and images

Digital facsimile: http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/fr/searchresult/list/one/bge/fr0169

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman