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2649  :  Vie de Jésus Christ en sept parties

Number

2649


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 181

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
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1480
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • 265 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 405 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 290 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 19
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles : 19
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Flemish Boetius

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

Authors

  • Michel de Massa

Translators

  • Jean Aubert

Contents

  • 1 : Vie de Jésus Christ en sept parties

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

Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 200, Ghent, for Lodewijk van Gruuthuse (ill. 61: f.107)

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 112, coul. pl. 27-28 (frontispiece, f.25)

Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 619

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: So called A Bening

Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.1142-6

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.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. 65

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.365

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. 125, p. 425-429

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 188

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. 071

Online Informations and images

See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90599529

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 14393-14411; Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 19 photos; Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo (f.176)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman