1848 : Speculum humanae salvationis
Number
1848
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Add. 11575
Owners before c.1550
- (urban public ?)
Commissioners
- (urban public ?)
- Townsman
- Gender :
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1410
- Half centuries : 1400-1449
- Decade : 1410 - 1419
Physical description
Measurements
- 097 (originally 122) leaves
- Size categories of height : 250-274 mm
- Height of text blocks : 264 mm
- Width of text blocks : 191 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 155
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings : 155
Miniaturists
- Pre-Eyckian Master
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
biblical
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Speculum humanae salvationis
Languages
- Dutch
Bibliography
Jan Deschamps, Middelnederlandse handschriften uit Europese en Amerikaanse bibliotheken, exhib. cat. (Brussels 1970), Leiden 1972, no. 038 (ill. 36)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Realism c.1400
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. 38
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, cat. no. 13 (afb 1, 6-17)
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. 130