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2646  :  Metamorphoses (moralisés)

Number

2646


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 137

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 : Flanders
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470-1480 (c.1480-1490 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 251 (5+7+237+2) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 455 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 330 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 118
  • Number of miniatures : 15
  • Number of historiated initials : 103
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Margaret of York

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Ovidius

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Metamorphoses (moralisés)

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: M Margaret of York

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, p.226

Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule II (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 7), Vienna 1990, fig. 047 (p.64): M Margaret of York

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Margaret of York ?

Alain Arnould & Jean Michel Massing, Splendours of Flanders. Late Medieval Art in Cambridge Collections, Cambridge 1993, no. 76

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. 27

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. 073, p. 304

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 158 (M Margaret of York)

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. 069

Online Informations and images

See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90588940

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 118 photos; Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 2 photos (f.35, 53v

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman