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1229  :  L'art de chasser aux oiseaux

Number

1229


Shelf Marks

  • Cambridge (MA), Houghton Library, typ 129
  • Ph. Hofer
  • Kraus 1950
  • Kraus, In Retrospect, no. 84

Owners before c.1550

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
  • Louis XII of France
  • Francis I of France

Commissioners

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Jan van Kriekenborch (?)

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent
  • Date
    • Date details : 1486
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489


Physical description

Measurements

  • 149 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 384 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 285 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 1 large and 1 small miniature, also hundreds of marginal drawings
  • Total number of illustrations : 2
  • Number of miniatures : 2
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Flemish Boetius

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Emperor Fredrick II + Manfred

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : L'art de chasser aux oiseaux

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 114

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.309

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.218, 254

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.358, 366-367

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. 426, 428

P. Hofer, A Newly Discovered Manuscript of Frederick Hohenstaufen’s’Art of Falconry’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), p. 19-31

Roger S. Wieck, Late medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, 1350-1525, in the Houghton Library, Cambridge (Mass.) 1983, no. 26 (ill. p. 55 (f.29))

Claudine Lemaire, ‘Lijst van handschriften’, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992: Lodewijk van Gruuthuse, no. 046

Online Informations and images

Description: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/early_manuscripts/about.cfm

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman