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1747  :  De consolatione philosophiae

Number

1747


Shelf Marks

  • Jena, ThULB, El fol 85

Owners before c.1550

  • Margaret of York
  • Engelbert of Nassau ?
  • Hendrik of Nassau
  • Elector of Saxony (gift 1538)

Commissioners

  • Margaret of York
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Woman

Country

Germany


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

David Aubert

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent ?
  • Date
    • Date details : 1476
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 148 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 375 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 270 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 1
  • Number of miniatures : 1
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Moral Treatises
  • M Mary of Burgundy (influence)

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • Boetius

Translators

  • Jean de Meun (attr.)

Contents

  • 1 : De consolatione philosophiae

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Leonardo Olschki, Manuscrits français à peintures des bibliothèques d’Allemagne, Geneva 1932, pl. 35

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. 194, M Margaret of York, Marmion (infuence), David Aubert, Ghent, 1476

G.I. Lieftinck, Boekverluchters uit de omgeving van Maria van Bourgondie ca. 1475 - ca. 1485 (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Klasse der Letteren, 66), 2 vols., Brussels 1969, p.IX

Edith Rothe, Buchmalerei aus zwölf Jahrhunderten: die schönsten illuminierten Handschriften in den Bibliotheken und Archiven der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Berlin 1966, no. 114 (ill. f.13v)

Richard E.F. Straub, David Aubert, escripvain et clerc (Faux titre. Etudes de langue et littérature françaises, 96), Amsterdam-Atlanta 1995, Section 2.2.1.03

Anne Korteweg, Boeken van Oranje-Nassau. De bibliotheek van de graven van Nassau en prinsen van Oranje in de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw, exhib. cat., The Hague 1998, no. 26 (ill. p.26)

Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, p.197

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.191, 301, 459, 550, 655

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. 424

Hans Lülfing & Hans-Erich Teitge, Handschriften und alte Drucke: Kostbarkeiten aus Bibliotheken der DDR, Wiesbaden 1981, p. 193 (ill. f.85)

Irmgard Kratzsch, Schätze der Buchmalerei. Aus der Handschriftensammlung der Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Jena 2001, no. 12

Anne Korteweg, Boeken van Oranje-Nassau. De bibliotheek van de graven van Nassau en prinsen van Oranje in de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw, exhib. cat., The Hague 1998: Nassau, no. 26

Thomas Kren (ed.), Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Visions of Tondal. Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections (June 21-24, 1990), Los Angeles 1992: Margaret, no. 1-07

Online Informations and images

Digital facsimile: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00016581

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman