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2673  :  Speculum historiale (vol. 3)

Number

2673


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 310 (+ fr 308-311)

Owners before c.1550

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
  • Louis XII of France

Commissioners

  • ?
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man
  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1400-1410 (Paris, borders); c.1455 (SN, miniatures)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459

Physical description

Measurements

  • 414 (2+407+5) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 430 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 326 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 51
  • Number of miniatures : 47
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Willem Vrelant (and workshop)
  • M Arsenal 575

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : modern (red morocco, Louis XV)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Vincent de Beauvais

Translators

  • Jean de Vignay

Contents

  • 1 : Speculum historiale (vol. 3)

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. 104, Vrelant, Bruges, 1455

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, p.212-213

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant

Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996

Laetitia Le Guay, Les princes de Bourgogne lecteurs de Froissart. Les rapports entre le texte et l’image dans les manuscrits enluminés du livre IV des Chroniques, Turnhout 1998, ill. 53 (f.365v)

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. 02c

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.361

J.D. Farquhar, Creation and Imitation. The Work of a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Illuminator, Fort Lauderdale 1976

Elizabeth Moodey, Illuminated Crusader Histories for Philip the Good of Burgundy, Turnhout 2012, p. 233

Colette Beaune, Le Miroir du Pouvoir, Paris 1989, ill. p. 43 (f.282v), p.47 (f.361v)

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. 085c

Online Informations and images

See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 8 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman