1385 : Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies
Number
1385
Shelf Marks
- Los Angeles, JP Getty Museum, 111 (acc. 2013.46)
- Sotheby's 2012-12-05, no. 51
- Chatsworth, Duke of Devonshire, 7535
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
Private
Scribe
David Aubert ?
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Brabant
- Towns : Antwerp
- Details : Antwerpen
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Date
- Date details : c.1464-1470 (shortly after 1464)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 227 (originally 270) leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 368 mm
- Width of text blocks : 260 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 52
- Number of miniatures : 8
- Number of historiated initials : 44
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Lieven van Lathem
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : c.1815 (orange morocco, London)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
literary
Authors
/
Translators
- David Aubert
Contents
- 1 : Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 160, Van Lathem, c.1470, Bruges, text after 1464, for Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, p.213
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Lieven Van Lathem
Richard E.F. Straub, David Aubert, escripvain et clerc (Faux titre. Etudes de langue et littérature françaises, 96), Amsterdam-Atlanta 1995, Section 2.2.4.08
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992, cat. no. 04 (ill. p.114, 118, 120, 165, 166, 168, 170, 197)
Eva Wolf, Das Bild in der spätmittelalterlichen Buchmalerei: das Sachsenheim-Gebetbuch im Werk Lievin van Lathems, Hildesheim 1996, cat. no. 04 (7 ill., Lathem)
Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], Fig. 7.69 (f.2)
Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 042 (f.2), p.126 (f.143v)
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. 058
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.78, 81, 84, 124
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
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. 120, 124, 287, 289, 292, 406
Edward B. Ham, ‘Le manuscrit de Gillion de Trazegnies à Chatsworth’, Romania, 58 (1932), 66-77
Elizabeth Moodey, Illuminated Crusader Histories for Philip the Good of Burgundy, Turnhout 2012, p. 72
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. 048
Online Informations and images
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/263638
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File Grande-Bretagne 1 (9 photos of 9 miniatures)