2709 : Remèdes de fortune Mélibée et Prudence
Number
2709
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 1090
Owners before c.1550
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Louis XII of France
Commissioners
/
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Flanders
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Date
- Date details : c.1470
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 098 leaves
- Size categories of height : 250-274 mm
- Height of text blocks : 257 mm
- Width of text blocks : 186 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 3
- Number of miniatures : 3
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Margaret of York
- M London Add. 18798
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 17th/18th c. (red morocco)
- Dating : 1600-1700
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- ps Seneca
- Albertanus of Brescia
Translators
- Jacques Bauchant
- Renaud de Louhans
Contents
- 1 : Remèdes de fortune
- 2 : Mélibée et Prudence
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, p.225 (no. 26)
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, no. 061 (M Margaret of York)
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. 38
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. 075, p. 295, 307-308
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. 027
Online Informations and images
See: http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90598237
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 3 photos (f.1, 9, 29)