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2565  :  Histoires romaines (vol. 2)

Number

2565


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BA, 5088 (+ Paris, BA, 5087)

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Good
  • Library Burgundian Dukes

Commissioners

  • Philip the Good
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Artois
    • Towns : Hesdin
    • Details : Hesdin
  • Date
    • Date details : 1460
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1460 - 1469

Physical description

Measurements

  • 345 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 402 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 290 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 24
  • Number of miniatures : 24
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

f.175v : arms of Phiip the Good containing several heraldic errors

Miniaturists

  • M Rambures
  • Loyset Liédet (early work)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 18th c. (Paulmy)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Jean Mansel

Translators

  • Jean Mansel

Contents

  • 1 : Histoires romaines (vol. 2)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Henry Martin & Philippe Lauer, Les principaux manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal à Paris (Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits a` peintures, 11), Paris 1929, p.46: (no ill.)

Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 027 (f.303v)

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. 065, Hesdin, 1460, Liédet, text 1454, for Philip the Good

Georges Dogaer & Marguerite Debae, La librairie de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels 1967 [also published in Dutch: De librije van Filips de Goede, Brussels 1967] (in list p. 161-163)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Loyset Liédet (early)

François Avril & Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, Paris 1993, cat. no. 044 (ill. f.303v)

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

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.151 (n5) (M Rambures)

Medieval Mastery. Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold, 800-1475, exhib. cat., Leuven 2002, no. 81bis

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.255-6

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.44, 48

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

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, No. 115, p. 266, 269-274, 335, 406-407

Thomas Falmagne & Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), Corpus Catalogorum Belgii. The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries. Volume V: Ducs de Bourgogne, Brussels (forthcoming in 2010): Dukes of Burgundy

Online Informations and images

Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55007168j

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 13 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman