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1933  :  Commentarii de bello gallico

Number

1933


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Egerton 1065

Owners before c.1550

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Commissioners

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Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1480
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • (no data) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 365 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 260 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations : 10
  • Number of miniatures : 10
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Bruges 1482

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Julius Caesar

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Commentarii de bello gallico

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Patricia Basing, Trades and crafts in medieval manuscripts, London 1990, ill. 27

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Brugge 1482

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.278

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.200, 268

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 057

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7983&CollID=28&NStart=1065

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman