2888 : Livre des bonnes meurs Dits moraux des philosophes
Number
2888
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, Smith-Lesouëf 73
- Paris, Labitte 1879-03-18, no. 19
- Fam. De la Rochefoucauld (17th c.)
Owners before c.1550
- Anthony of Burgundy (the Great Bastard)
- Adolphe of Burgundy
- Fam. Croy
- Charles de Croy, duke of Aarschot
Commissioners
- Anthony of Burgundy (the Great Bastard)
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
David Aubert ?
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1470
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 189 (1+3+182+2+1) leaves
- Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
- Height of text blocks : 440 mm
- Width of text blocks : 257 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 4 large miniatures (f.1v, f.27, (f.34b has disappeared), f.44v, f.58), 21 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 25
- Number of miniatures : 25
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Anthony of Burgundy
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (red velvet)
- Dating : Unknown
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Jacques Legrand
- ...
Translators
- Guillaume de Tignonville
Contents
- 1 : Livre des bonnes meurs
- 2 : Dits moraux des philosophes
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Richard E.F. Straub, David Aubert, escripvain et clerc (Faux titre. Etudes de langue et littérature françaises, 96), Amsterdam-Atlanta 1995, Section 2.2.4.23
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, p.90
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.64, 272-273, 275, 340
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. 078, p. 260, 311, 316, 320
Archilogue Sopie et Livre de Bonnes Meurs (Bibliothèque du XVe siècle, 49), Paris 1986 [text edition]
Amedée Boinet, ‘Le grand Bâtard de Bourgogne. Un bibliophile du XVe siècle’, Bibliothèque de l’école des chartes, 67 (1906), 255-269
Christiane Van den Bergen-Pantens, ‘Héraldique et bibliophilie: Le cas d’Antoine, Grand Bâtard de Bourgogne (1421-1504)’, Anny Raman & Eugène Manning (eds.), Miscellanea Martin Wittek. Album de codicologie et de paléographie offer à Martin Wittek, Leuven 1993, 323-354: Anthony of Burgundy, no. 28 (as private collection)
Online Informations and images
See: http://images.bnf.fr/
Photo Archives
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