1338 : Les douze dames de rhetorique
Number
1338
Shelf Marks
- Cambridge, UL, Nn. 3.2 (1715)
Owners before c.1550
- Jean de Montferrant
Commissioners
- Jean de Montferrant
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1473-1475 (c.1470 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 061 leaves
- Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
- Height of text blocks : 275 mm
- Width of text blocks : 203 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 12
- Number of miniatures : 12
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Anthony of Burgundy
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : c.1700 (England, the original clasps are preserved)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Jean Robertet + Georges Chastelain
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Les douze dames de rhetorique
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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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.96
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. 311, 314
David Cowling (ed.), George Chastelain, Jean Robertet, Jean de Montferrant : Les douze dames de rhétorique, (Textes littésraires français, 549), Geneva 2006, C [text edition]
Claudine Chavannes , ‘The Twelve Ladies of Rhetoric in Cambridge [CUL MS Nn.3.2]’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 10, part 2 (1992), 139-155; Eelco Bruinsma, ‘The lettre bourguignonne in CUL MS Nn.3.2 and other Flemish manuscripts: a method of identification’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 10, part 2 (1992), 156-164