2437 : Remèdes de fortune etc.
Number
2437
Shelf Marks
- Oxford, BL, Douce 365
Owners before c.1550
- Margaret of York
Commissioners
- Margaret of York
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Woman
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
David Aubert
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent
-
Date
- Date details : 1475
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 267 leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 360 mm
- Width of text blocks : 280 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 4
- Number of miniatures : 4
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Maximilian
- M Moral Treatises
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
philosophical, theological, ascetic
Authors
- ps Seneca
- St Pierre de Luxembourg
- Jean Gerson
- etc
Translators
- Jacques Bauchant
Contents
- 1 : Remèdes de fortune
- 2 : etc.
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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G.I. Lieftinck, Boekverluchters uit de omgeving van Maria van Bourgondie ca. 1475 - ca. 1485 (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Klasse der Letteren, 66), 2 vols., Brussels 1969, p.154, p.IX
Marguerite d’York et son temps, exhib. cat., Brussels 1967 [also published in Dutch], no. 09 (ill.)
Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 603
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, Fig. 03i (f. xvii)
Edmund Bowles, Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages / La pratique musicale au moyen âge, Geneva 1983, no. 052 (f.8)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Mary of Burgundy, ill.. 92 (f.115)
Richard E.F. Straub, David Aubert, escripvain et clerc (Faux titre. Etudes de langue et littérature françaises, 96), Amsterdam-Atlanta 1995, Section 2.2.2.16
Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], Fig. 7.42 (f.115), p.375
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. 036 (f.115)
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, no. 043
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.148
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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. 308, 424
Otto Pächt and J.J.G. Alexander, Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 3 vols., Oxford 1966-1973, vol. 1: 352
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. 1-08
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File Grande-Bretagne 2 (5 photos of all 4 miniatures)