2609 : De bello judaico (vol. 1)
Number
2609
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 11
Owners before c.1550
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Louis XII of France
Commissioners
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
David Aubert ?
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent (Bruges ?)
-
Date
- Date details : 1480
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 110 leaves
- Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
- Height of text blocks : 455 mm
- Width of text blocks : 335 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 5
- Number of miniatures : 5
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Flemish Boetius (and workshop)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 17th c. binding (red morocco, King of France)
- Dating : 1600-1700
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Flavius Josephus
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : De bello judaico (vol. 1)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Friedrich Winkler, Die Flämische Buchmalerei des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts: Künstler und Werke von den Brüdern van Eyck bis zu Simon Bening, Leipzig 1925: Alexander Bening
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, p.214, p.220
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: So called A Bening
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.294, 309
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, no. 63a
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.368
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. 425, 427, 430, 433
Claudine Lemaire, ‘Lijst van handschriften’, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992: Lodewijk van Gruuthuse, no. 055a
Online Informations and images
See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90070118
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 2 photos (f.1, 3v)