1875 : Traité de noblesse etc.
Number
1875
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Add. 18798
- Jos. Lilly (until 1851)
- Joost Van der Meere (1597)
Owners before c.1550
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
Commissioners
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1470-1475
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 073 (4+66+3) leaves
- Size categories of height : 250-274 mm
- Height of text blocks : 260 mm
- Width of text blocks : 190 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 1
- Number of miniatures : 1
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Margaret of York
- M London Add. 18798
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Diego de Valera
- Nicolas Sersanders (1597)
Translators
- Hugues de Salve
Contents
- 1 : Traité de noblesse
- 2 : etc.
Languages
- Latin
- French
Bibliography
Arjo Vanderjagt, Qui sa vertu anoblist. The concepts of “Noblesse” and “Chose Publicque” in Burgundian political thought (including fifteenth century french translations of Giovanni Aurispa, Buonaccorso da Montemagno, and Diego de Valera), Groningen 1981, no. 10 (P), ill. 16 (f.1)
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 106, pl. 86
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Margaret of York ?
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992, cat. no. 10 (ill. p. 179 (f.1)
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.247 (M Margaret of York)
Pascal Schandel & Ilona Hans-Collas, with the collaboration of Hanno Wijsman and scientific advice by François Avril, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux, Vol. I: Louis de Bruges, Paris-Leuven 2009, p.75-76, 99, 135, 148
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.275, 305, 368
Claudine Lemaire, ‘Lijst van handschriften’, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992: Lodewijk van Gruuthuse, no. 051