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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
  • 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

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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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman