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3371  :  De Civitate Dei (books 11-22)

Number

3371


Shelf Marks

  • Torino, Archivio di Stato, B III 12 J (+ Torino, BN, L I 6)

Owners before c.1550

  • Anthony of Burgundy (the Great Bastard)

Commissioners

  • Anthony of Burgundy (the Great Bastard) ?
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

Italy


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Jean Du Quesne

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges (Lille ?)
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1466-1470 (after 1466)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1460 - 1469

Physical description

Measurements

  • 401 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 418 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 312 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 12
  • Number of miniatures : 12
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Turin Augustine
  • Willem Vrelant (influence) ?

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • Augustine

Translators

  • Raoul de Presles

Contents

  • 1 : De Civitate Dei (books 11-22)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

A. de Laborde, Les Manuscrits à peintures de la Cité de Dieu de Saint Augustin, Paris 1909, no. 49b (ill. 25, 26, 27: f.59v, 174, 208)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant

Pierre Cockshaw & Christiane Van den Bergen-Pantens (eds.), L’ordre de la Toison d’or de Philippe le Bon à Philippe le Beau (1430-1505). Idéal ou reflet d’une société?, Turnhout 1996, Section VI-36

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, p.278

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.271, 469

Francesco Carta, Carlo Cipolla & Carlo Frati, Atlante paleografico-artistico compilato sui manoscritti esposti in Torino alla mostra d'arte sacra nel 1898 e pubblicato dalla Deputazione di storia patria delle antiche Provincie e della Lombardia, Turin 1899, fig. 069

Sandra Hindman et al., The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. IV: Illuminations, New York-Princeton 1997, no. 10

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. 34

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 14241-47, 04453-57

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman