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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

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • 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)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman