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2805  :  Vita Christi (vol. 2/4)

Number

2805


Shelf Marks

Owners before c.1550

  • Johann von Oettingen

Commissioners

  • Johann von Oettingen
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1487-1500 (after 1487)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1490 - 1499

Physical description

Measurements

  • 320 (8+312) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 440 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 310 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 42
  • Number of miniatures : 42
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

"Ou que je'soie"

Miniaturists

  • M Edward IV (and follower)
  • M Bruges 1482 (influence) ??

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 18th c. (red morocco)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

Authors

  • Ludolphus de Saxonia

Translators

  • Guillaume Lemenand

Contents

  • 1 : Vita Christi (vol. 2/4)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

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. 096bis

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.340, 466

Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010: Johann von Oettingen, no. 5

Claudine Lemaire, ‘Les manuscrits de Jean II, comte d’Oettingen ou la fin d’une légende’, Anny Raman & Eugène Manning, Miscellanea Martin Wittek. Album de codicologie et de paléographie offert à Martin Wittek, Leuven 1993, 243-253: Johann von Oettingen no. 2

Online Informations and images

Digitisation : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84490355

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 13 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman