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
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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
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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