2644 : De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium
Number
2644
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 132
Owners before c.1550
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Louis XII of France
Commissioners
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse ?
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1470-1480 (before 1492)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 189 (4+183+2) leaves
- Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
- Height of text blocks : 440 mm
- Width of text blocks : 310 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 1 large, 9 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 10
- Number of miniatures : 10
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Margaret of York
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (red morocco) (the original binding was in red velvet)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Boccaccio
Translators
- Laurent de Premierfait
Contents
- 1 : De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, p.226
Carla Bozzolo, Manuscrits des traductions françaises d’oeuvres de Boccace. XVe siècle (Medioevo e Umanesimo, 15), Padova 1973, p.060
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. 26
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.333
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. 066
Online Informations and images
See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9009617f
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 5 photos (f.1, 23, 42v, 62v, 83v)