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2781  :  Moralités et opuscules ascétiques

Number

2781


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 12441 (anc. suppl. fr. 201)

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Good

Commissioners

  • Philip the Good
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Jean Miélot (?)

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Flanders
  • Date
    • Date details : 1456
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459


Physical description

Measurements

  • 127 (1+3+1+116+2+3+1) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 289 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 200 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 4
  • Number of miniatures : 4
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Jan de Tavernier

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (brown calf, spine in red morocco)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

/

Translators

  • Jean Miélot

Contents

  • 1 : Moralités et opuscules ascétiques

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. 086, miniatures cf. 87, Jean Miélot, Lille, 1456

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: Miélot

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

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, p. 065, 218, 220, 227, 232

Online Informations and images

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

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 2 photos (f.1, 44)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman