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
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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
/
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