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1686  :  Speculum humanae salvationis

Number

1686


Shelf Marks

  • Glasgow, UL, Hunter 60 (T.2.18)
  • Sale J-L Gaignat 1769-04-10, no. 1117

Owners before c.1550

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Commissioners

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Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : 1455
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459


Physical description

Measurements

  • 067 (2+61+4) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 300-324 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 302 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 213 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations : 169
  • Number of miniatures : 85
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles : 84
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Willem Vrelant (circle)
  • M Catherine of Cleves
  • M Speculum Glasgow

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 18th c. (millboards, covered red morocco (by Derome ?))
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

biblical

Authors

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Translators

  • Jean Miélot

Contents

  • 1 : Speculum humanae salvationis

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. 106, Vrelant (and assistants), Bruges, 1455

Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996, cat. no. 12 (fig. 150-153, 156, 157, 160, 163, 165, 168, 170, 175, 177, 178)

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.233, 320

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. 353, 354, 356

Maurits Smeyers, ‘Middeleeuwse miniaturen, spiegel van de werkelijkheid’, Theo Venkeleer & Werner Verbeke (eds.): Cultuurwetenschappen in beweging, Leuven-Antwerpen 1992,, (ill. f.1v)

Online Informations and images

Description and images : http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search/detail_c.cfm?ID=34374

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 03255-98

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman