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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

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman