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
/
Commissioners
/
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean Du Quesne (?)
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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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