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3542  :  Imitatio Christi De meditatione cordis

Number

3542


Shelf Marks

  • Wien, ÖNB, 1576
  • Hohendorf

Owners before c.1550

  • Baudoin de Lannoy
  • Francoise de Barbancon

Commissioners

  • Baudoin de Lannoy (d.1501)
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

Austria


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1490 (after 1481)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1490 - 1499

Physical description

Measurements

  • 196 (8+188) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 250-274 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 251 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 175 mm

Illustrations

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

Miniaturists

  • M Edward IV

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : c.1700-1720 (red morocco)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • Thomas a Kempis
  • Jean Gerson

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Imitatio Christi
  • 2 : De meditatione cordis

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Franz Unterkircher, Bibliothèque nationale d’Autriche. Manuscrits et livres imprimés concernant l’histoire des Pays-Bas 1475-1600, exhib. cat., Brussels 1962, 048 (ill. 12: f.7)

Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule II (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 7), Vienna 1990, p. 101 (ill. 201-204)

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, (Master Edward IV)

Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James H. Marrow & Lucy Freeman Sandler (with the assistance of Elisabeth Moodey and Todor T. Petev), The Splendor of the Word. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, exhib. cat., New York-London-Turnhout 2005, see no. 75

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. 095

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.418-419, 422-423, 680

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. 237

Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010: Baudouin de Lannoy, no. 10

Hanno Wijsman, Gebonden weelde. Productie van geïllustreerde handschriften en adellijk boekenbezit in de Bourgondische Nederlanden (1400-1550), doctoral dissertation, Leiden University 2003 [with a summary in French]: Baudouin de Lannoy, no. 10

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman