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1966  :  Roman de la rose

Number

1966


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Harley 4425
  • Fléchier
  • Woodman and Lyon 1726-01-25, no. 67
  • Jean Antoine II de Mesmes (d.1723)

Owners before c.1550

  • Engelbert II of Nassau
  • Hendrik III of Nassau ?

Commissioners

  • Engelbert II of Nassau ?
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1490-1500 (1487-1504)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1490 - 1499

Physical description

Measurements

  • 186 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 394 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 292 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 92
  • Number of miniatures : 92
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Prayer Books c.1500
  • M Engelbert van Nassau's Roman de la Rose

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : c.1900 (green morocco, London)
  • Dating : 1900-2000


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Guillaume de Lorris + Jean de Meun

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Roman de la rose

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 072 (f.12)

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 087

Thomas Kren, ‘Flemish Manuscript Illumination 1475-1550’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts. Treasures from the British Library, New York-Malibu-London 1983, 1-86, cat. no. 06, pl. 8-9 (f.14v, f.39), Fig. f.7, f.11v, f.83v

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Prayer Books c.1500

Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], Fig. 36 (f.14v)

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.297 (M Prayer Books c.1500)

Margit Bachfischer, Musikanten, Gaukler und Vaganten. Spielmannskunst im Mittelalter, Augsburg 1998, p.155, 156, ill. (f.12v, 14v)

Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], Fig. 8.37 (f.7)

Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 337 (f.59)

Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.1033

Elisabeth Antoine et al., Sur la terre comme au ciel. Jardins d’occident à la fin du Moyen Age, exhib. cat., Paris 2002, no. 27

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. 12 (ill. p.20, cover)

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, no. 120

Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.126

Hanno Wijsman, Handschriften voor het hertogdom. De mooiste verluchte manuscripten van hertogen, adellieden, kloosterlingen en stedelingen, ’s-Hertogenbosch 2006, no. 12

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.371, 458, 463

Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library, Toronto-London 1997, no. 190 (ill. f.76v)

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 354 (M Prayer Books c.1500)

Peter Murray Jones, Medieval medical miniatures, London 1984, ill. III

J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts, London 1911-, vol. III, no. 47 (f.14v)

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 093

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. 12

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7465&CollID=8&NStart=4425

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman