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 ?)
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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