2776 : Livre du très chevaleureux comte d'Artois
Number
2776
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 11610 (anc. suppl. fr. 2461, 3)
Owners before c.1550
- Jean, bastard of Wavrin
- Philip the Good
- Library Burgundian Dukes
Commissioners
- Jean, bastard of Wavrin
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean d'Ardenay ?
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Lille
- Details : Lille ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1450-1460
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1450 - 1459
Physical description
Measurements
- 120 (3+3+108+3+3) leaves
- Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
- Height of text blocks : 297 mm
- Width of text blocks : 206 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 29
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings : 29
Miniaturists
- M Jean de Wavrin
Material
Paper
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (red morocco, Louis XV)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
literary
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Livre du très chevaleureux comte d'Artois
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Georges Dogaer & Marguerite Debae, La librairie de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels 1967 [also published in Dutch: De librije van Filips de Goede, Brussels 1967] (in list p. 161-163)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Wavrin (imitator)
François Avril & Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, Paris 1993, cat. no. 048 (ill. f.88, 107)
Anne-Marie Legaré, ‘Les cent quatorze manuscrits de Bourgogne choisis par le comte d’Argenson pour le roi Louis XV. Édition de la liste de 1748’, Bulletin du bibliophile, 1998, 241-329, no. 097
Brigitte Dekeyser & Jan Van der Stock, Manuscripts in Transition. Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002) (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 15), Leuven 2005, p.302, 307, 310, 315
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.233, 473, 475, 477-478
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. 097, p. 065, 358, 361
Jean Charles Seigneuret, Le roman du comte d'Artois (XVe siècle) (Textes littéraires français, 124), Geneva 1966, C [text edition]
François Avril, La passion des manuscrits enluminés: bibliophiles français, 1280-1580, exhib. cat., Paris 1991, no. 22 (ill.)
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010: Jean de Wavrin, no. 05
Antoinette Naber, ‘Les manuscrits d’un bibliophile bourguignon du XVe siècle, Jean de Wavrin’, Revue du Nord, 72 (1990), 23-48: Jean de Wavrin
Online Informations and images
Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8451110g ; See also: http://mandragore.bnf.fr
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 17 photos