1377 : Vita beati Benedicti abbatis
Number
1377
Shelf Marks
- Chantilly, Musée Condé, 738 (1401)
- J. Paelinc (19th c.)
Owners before c.1550
- Benedictine convent St Laurent, Liège ?
Commissioners
- Benedictine convent St Laurent, Liège ?
- Institution: ecclesiastical
- Gender : Institution
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean de Stavelot
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Eastern Southern Netherlands (incl. Liège + Limburg)
- Details : Liège (St Laurent convent)
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Date
- Date details : 1432
- Half centuries : 1400-1449
- Decade : 1430 - 1439
Physical description
Measurements
- 201 (5+196) leaves
- Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
- Height of text blocks : 282 mm
- Width of text blocks : 185 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 99
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings : 99
Miniaturists
- Jean de Stavelot
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
Authors
- Jean de Stavelot
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Vita beati Benedicti abbatis
Languages
- Latin (+ French)
- Dutch
Bibliography
Jacques Meurgey, Les principaux manuscrits à peintures du Musée Condé à Chantilly (Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, 14), Paris 1930, no. 34 (ill. 50)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Stavelot, ill.. 21.
Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996
Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.1219
Jacques Stiennon, Les Ecoles de Liège aux XIe et XIIe siecles. Exposition de manuscrits et d'oeuvres d'art, organisée a l'occasion du 15e anniversaire de l'Universite de Liege, Liège 1967