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1423  :  Roman de Thebes Roman de Troie

Number

1423


Shelf Marks

  • Cologny-Genève, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, 160
  • Kraus,Cat100(1962),n28
  • Sotheby’s1958-12-09,n26c
  • Sotheby's1958-12-9,n26
  • Dyson Perrins
  • Fairfax Murray
  • Yates Thompson
  • Sotheby’s1899-05-01,n107
  • Ashburnham
  • Utterson
  • Harwood
  • Towneley
  • De La Vallière
  • Gaignat
  • Vilain-Gand

Owners before c.1550

  • Vatos (Book merchant in Lille)
  • Josse de Lalaing (bailiff of Flandres)

Commissioners

  • Jean, bastard of Wavrin ?
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

Switzerland


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Jacotin de Lespluc

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Lille
    • Details : Lille
  • Date
    • Date details : 1469
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1460 - 1469


Physical description

Measurements

  • 251 (2+247+2) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 276 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 192 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 128
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings : 128

Miniaturists

  • M Bodmer 160
  • M Jean de Wavrin (circle)

Material

Paper

Binding

  • Description : 18th c. (Louis de Gand)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Roman de Thebes
  • 2 : Roman de Troie

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Wavrin (imitator)

François Avril & Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, Paris 1993, p.098

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.0401-432

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.406

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. 360, 368

Françoise Vielliard, Manuscrits français du Moyen Age (Bibliotheca Bodmeriana Catalogues, 2), Cologny (Geneva) 1975, p. 079

Online Informations and images

Digital facsimile: http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/description/cb/0160

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman