1684 : Legenda aurea
Number
1684
Shelf Marks
- Glasgow, UL, General 1111 (2 vols., originally 1 vol.)
- A, Philip, earl of Roseberry (until 1918)
Owners before c.1550
- Fortigaire of Piacenza, bishop of Arras ??
Commissioners
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Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1415-1420 (c.1405-1410?)
- Half centuries : 1400-1449
- Decade : 1410 - 1419
Physical description
Measurements
- 374 (193 + 181) leaves
- Size categories of height : 300-324 mm
- Height of text blocks : 318 mm
- Width of text blocks : 228 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 102
- Number of miniatures : 102
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
Fortigaire of Piacenza, bishop of Arras ??
Miniaturists
- M Glasgow-Rouen (three different hands)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
Authors
- Jacobus de Voragine
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Legenda aurea
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
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Maurits Smeyers, Bert Cardon, Susie Vertongeren, Katrien Smeyers & Rita Van Dooren, Naer natueren ghelike. Vlaamse miniaturen voor Van Eyck (ca. 1350 – ca. 1420), Leuven 1993, no. 27
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
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.0696-674, 1276
Brigitte Dekeyser & Jan Van der Stock, Manuscripts in Transition. Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002) (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 15), Leuven 2005, p.289, 290
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.107
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. 129
Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, 'Une représentation inédite de saint Donatien et sa place au sein de l’enluminture dite ‟pré-eyckienne”', Claudia Rabel (dir.), Le manuscrit enluminé. Etudes réunies en hommage à Patricia Stirnemann, Paris, 2014, p. 167-191
Nigel R. Thorpe, The Glory of the Page. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from Glasgow University Library, exhib. cat., London 1987, no. 114 (2ill. f.6v, 368)
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 03058-160, 03203