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2253  :  Bible historiale (vol. 1) (Historia scholastica)

Number

2253


Shelf Marks

  • New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, 129 (vol. 1)
  • Sotheby's 1922-02-13/14, no. 33
  • John Harrison-Broadley

Owners before c.1550

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Commissioners

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Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Jean Du Quesne (?)

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1450-1475
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1460 - 1469

Physical description

Measurements

  • 270 (2+266+2) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 424 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 332 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 16
  • Number of miniatures : 9
  • Number of historiated initials : 7
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Turin Augustine

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 1981 (originally in one single volume)
  • Dating : 1900-2000


Content

Genre

biblical

Authors

  • Petrus Comestor

Translators

  • Guyart de Moulins

Contents

  • 1 : Bible historiale (vol. 1) (Historia scholastica)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James H. Marrow & Lucy Freeman Sandler (with the assistance of Elisabeth Moodey and Todor T. Petev), The Splendor of the Word. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, exhib. cat., New York-London-Turnhout 2005, see no. 21

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.278

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.469

Barbara A. Shailor, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Vol. I: 1-250. Vol. II: 251-500 (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 34 & 48), Binghamton (N.Y) 1984, no. 129a

Sandra Hindman et al., The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. IV: Illuminations, New York-Princeton 1997, no. 10

Online Informations and images

Description: http://brbl-net.library.yale.edu/pre1600ms/docs/pre1600.ms129.htm; Images, see: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 15302-29

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman