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1623  :  Pélerinage de vie humaine Dance aux aveugles

Number

1623


Shelf Marks

  • Genève, BGE, fr 182
  • Petau
  • Charles-Alexandre de Croy-Havré (1581-1624)

Owners before c.1550

  • Charles-Alexandre de Croy-Havré (1581-1624)

Commissioners

/

Country

Switzerland


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Hainaut
    • Towns : Valenciennes
    • Details : Valenciennes / Mons ? (Hainaut)
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1490-1495 (c.1500-1510 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1490 - 1499

Physical description

Measurements

  • 235 (2+232+1) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 435 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 310 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 40 large, 105 small miniatures, 9 sketches, 33 miniatures have never been filled in
  • Total number of illustrations : 154
  • Number of miniatures : 145
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings : 9

Miniaturists

  • M Antoine Rolin (and follower)

Material

Parchment

Binding

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


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • Guillaume de Digulleville
  • Pierre Michaut

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Pélerinage de vie humaine
  • 2 : Dance aux aveugles

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, Paris 1912, ill. 46 (f.198, 109v)

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.83

Anne-Marie Legaré, Le livre des échecs amoureux, Paris 1991, no. 01, M Antoine Rolin and 3 collaborators

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.217 (M Antoine Rolin)

Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.0773

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.407-8

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.341

Anne-Marie Legaré, 'Allégorie et gestualité dans un manuscrit du Pèlerinage de Vie humaine en prose', Le geste et les gestes au Moyen Age, Senefiance 41 (1998), 339-367

Bernard Gagnebin, L’enluminure de Charlemagne à Francois Ier. Les manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Genève, Geneva 1976, no. 75 (3 ill.)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman