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2653  :  Le Trésor

Number

2653


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 191

Owners before c.1550

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
  • Louis XII of France

Commissioners

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Jean Du Quesne

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Lille
    • Details : Bruges ? / Lille
  • Date
    • Date details : 1473-1474 (c.1470-1480)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 247 (1+2+16+327+1) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 384 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 287 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations : 3
  • Number of miniatures : 3
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Golden Fleece Vienna and Copenhagen
  • M Sapience ?

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 18th c. (red morocco, Louis XV)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Brunetto Latini

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Le Trésor

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: Vrelant (pupil): "Münchener schüler Vrelants"

Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 052 (f.1)

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. 246, Vrelant (style), for Lodewijk van Gruuthuse

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

Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992, ill. p.33

Scot McKendrick, The History of Alexander the Great: an Illuminated Manuscript of Vasco da Lucena’s French Translation of the Ancient Text by Quintus Curtius Rufus (Getty Museum Monographs on Illuminated Manuscripts), Los Angeles 1996, p.31

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. 43

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.469

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. 107, p. 380-384

Francis J. Carmody (ed.), Brunetto Latini, Li livres dou tresor, Berkeley 1948 [text edition]

Francis J. Carmody (ed.), Brunetto Latini, Li livres dou tresor, Berkeley 1975 [reprint of 1948] [text edition]

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. 076

Online Informations and images

See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9059509x

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 14425-27; Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo (f.1)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman