2426 : Commentarii de bello gallico
Number
2426
Shelf Marks
- Oxford, BL, Douce 208
- Antoine L'Aisné
- King Louis XIV of France
Owners before c.1550
- Fam. Saintré
Commissioners
/
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1480
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- (no data) leaves
- Size categories of height : (no data) mm
- Height of text blocks : (no data) mm
- Width of text blocks : (no data) mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 11
- Number of miniatures : 11
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Bruges 1482
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Julius Caesar
Translators
- Jean Du Quesne (Jean Du Chesne)
Contents
- 1 : Commentarii de bello gallico
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Brugge 1482
Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 178 (f.120v)
Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.1654
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.200
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. 340, 346
Anne F. Sutton & Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III’s Books. Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince, Stroud 1997, ill. 82
Otto Pächt and J.J.G. Alexander, Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 3 vols., Oxford 1966-1973, vol. 1: 351 (ill. f.1)