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1392  :  Speculum humanae salvationis Vita S Laurentii

Number

1392


Shelf Marks

  • Chicago, Newberry Library, 40

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Good

Commissioners

  • Philip the Good
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ? (+ NN ?)
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1460 (c.1450-1455 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1460 - 1469

Physical description

Measurements

  • 044 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 382 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 283 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 168
  • Number of miniatures : 84
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles : 84
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Willem Vrelant (circle)
  • M Queen Mary's Hours
  • Jan de Tavernier (follower)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : c.1845 (red morocco)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

biblical

Authors

  • Ludolphus de Saxonia

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Speculum humanae salvationis
  • 2 : Vita S Laurentii

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant

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, cat. no. 09 (fig. 193)

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.0365-379

Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.021-22, 24

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.200, 219, 233, 416, 542

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. 353, 356

Herbert L. Kessler, ‘The Chantilly Miroir de l’umaine salvation and Its Models’, Irving Lavin & John Plummer (eds.), Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Painting in Honor of Millard Meiss, New York 1977, 274-282

French and Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts from Chicago Collections, exhib. cat., Chicago 1969, no. 06 (8 ill.)

Thomas Falmagne & Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), Corpus Catalogorum Belgii. The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries. Volume V: Ducs de Bourgogne, Brussels (forthcoming in 2010): Dukes of Burgundy

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman