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)
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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.)