1618 : Histoire des croisades (Eracles)
Number
1618
Shelf Marks
- Genève, BGE, fr 85
- Petau
- Croy
Owners before c.1550
- Wolfert van Borssele
- Philip of Cleves
- Charles-Alexandre Croy (d.1624)
Commissioners
- Wolfert van Borssele (d.1487)
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
Switzerland
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Artois
- Towns : Hesdin
- Details : Hesdin ? / Lille ?
-
Date
- Date details : c.1460-1465 (before 1465 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 247 leaves
- Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
- Height of text blocks : 412 mm
- Width of text blocks : 300 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 43
- Number of miniatures : 43
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
"A james"
Miniaturists
- Simon Marmion (frontispiece)
- M Golden Fleece of Vienna and Copenhagen (follower ?)
- other hands
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 17th c. (Petau)
- Dating : 1600-1700
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Guillaume de Tyr
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Histoire des croisades (Eracles)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, Paris 1912, ill. 42 (f.1)
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. 067, Liédet, ea, Hesdin, Liédet, van AvK
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Loyset Liédet ?
Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], p. 140
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.0585, 594, 602, 605
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, 266, 303, 341, 671
Heinz Matile et al., Die Burgunderbeute und Werke burgundischer Hofkunst: Bernisches Historisches Museum, exhib. cat., Bern 1969, no. 224
Bernard Gagnebin, L’enluminure de Charlemagne à Francois Ier. Les manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Genève, Geneva 1976, no. 69 (3 ill. f.2)
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. 03
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. 03
Anne Korteweg, ‘La bibliothèque de Philippe de Clèves: inventaire et manuscrits parvenus jusqu’à nous’, Jelle Haemers, Céline Van Hoorebeeck, Hanno Wijsman (eds.), Entre la ville, la noblesse et l’état. Philippe de Clèves (1456-1528), homme politique et bibliophile (Burgundica, 13), Turnhout 2007, 183-221: Philip of Cleves, no. 153
Online Informations and images
Digital facsimile: http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/description/bge/fr0085
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File Suisse 4 (photos of all 38 miniatures)