1627 : Vita St Coleta
Number
1627
Shelf Marks
- Gent, Arme Klaren (Betlehem), 8
Owners before c.1550
- Poor Clares convent, Ghent
Commissioners
- Margaret of York, as gift for Poor Clares, Ghent
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Woman
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Ecclesiastical
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : 1468-1477
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 166 leaves
- Size categories of height : 250-274 mm
- Height of text blocks : 260 mm
- Width of text blocks : 180 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 25
- Number of miniatures : 25
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Margaret of York
- M Vie St Colette
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
Authors
- Pierre de Vaux
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Vita St Coleta
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. 186, M Vasco da Lucena, M Margaret of York, M Edward IV (style) (cf. no. 184, 185), Brussels
Marguerite d’York et son temps, exhib. cat., Brussels 1967 [also published in Dutch], no. 10
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.015
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Margaret of York
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.079f (M Vie St Colette)
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.217
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.98, 113, 120, 131
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. 424
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: Margaret, no. 4-27
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 06306-38