1394 : Livre des bonnes meurs Ludus scaccorum
Number
1394
Shelf Marks
- Chicago, Newberry Library, 55.5
- Kraus
- Stockholm, Sandberg
- Wilmette, Louis H Silver, no. 5
Owners before c.1550
- Wolfert van Borssele
- Buchain (1526)
Commissioners
- Wolfert van Borssele (d.1487)
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
David Aubert ?
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
-
Date
- Date details : 1464-1467 (before 1469)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 163 (153?) leaves
- Size categories of height : 325-349 mm
- Height of text blocks : 338 mm
- Width of text blocks : 230 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 20
- Number of miniatures : 20
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Anthony of Burgundy (workshop ?)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : c.1550 (English?, brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled)
- Dating : 1550-1600
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Jacques Legrand
- Jacobus de Cessolis
Translators
- Jean Ferron (interpolé Jean de Vignay)
Contents
- 1 : Livre des bonnes meurs
- 2 : Ludus scaccorum
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Friedrich Winkler, Die Flämische Buchmalerei des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts: Künstler und Werke von den Brüdern van Eyck bis zu Simon Bening, Leipzig 1925: M Anthony of Burgundy
Richard E.F. Straub, David Aubert, escripvain et clerc (Faux titre. Etudes de langue et littérature françaises, 96), Amsterdam-Atlanta 1995, Section 2.2.4.23
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.0086, 589
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.262-263, 269, 275
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. 316
Archilogue Sopie et Livre de Bonnes Meurs (Bibliothèque du XVe siècle, 49), Paris 1986 [text edition]
Amedée Boinet, ‘Le grand Bâtard de Bourgogne. Un bibliophile du XVe siècle’, Bibliothèque de l’école des chartes, 67 (1906), 255-269
French and Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts from Chicago Collections, exhib. cat., Chicago 1969, no. 10 (4 ill.)
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010: Wolfert van Borssele, no. 02
Hanno Wijsman, Gebonden weelde. Productie van geïllustreerde handschriften en adellijk boekenbezit in de Bourgondische Nederlanden (1400-1550), doctoral dissertation, Leiden University 2003 [with a summary in French]: Wolfert van Borssele, no. 02