2663 : Facta et dicta memorabilia (vol. 2)
Number
2663
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 289 (+ fr 288)
Owners before c.1550
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Louis XII of France
Commissioners
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1475 (after 1470 / c.1475-1480 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 252 (1+2+248+1) leaves
- Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
- Height of text blocks : 420 mm
- Width of text blocks : 300 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 60
- Number of miniatures : 47
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Bruges Genealogia Deorum
- M Margaret of York
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (red morocco, Louis XV)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Valerius Maximus
Translators
- Simon de Hesdin + Nicolas de Gonesse
Contents
- 1 : Facta et dicta memorabilia (vol. 2)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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. 255, M Margaret of York, M Mary of Burgundy, Van Lathem (influence), Bruges, 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
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Lieven Van Lathem?
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992, ill. p.130
Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 125 (f.414v)
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.218 (M Bruges Genealogia Deorum)
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. 29b
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.264
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. 071, p. 300
Franc¸oise Piponnier & Perrine Mane, Se vêtir au Moyen Âge, Paris 1995, f. 311v (ill.)
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. 083b
Online Informations and images
See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90095603
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 15 photos