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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

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman