<< < / > >>

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
  • 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)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman