2053 : De bello judaico (vol. 2)
Number
2053
Shelf Marks
- London, Sir John Soane Museum, 1 (vol. 135)
Owners before c.1550
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse ?
- Edward IV of England
Commissioners
- Edward IV of England ? (gift by Lodewijk van Gruuthuse ?)
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
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
- 359 (1+353+5) leaves
- Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
- Height of text blocks : 492 mm
- Width of text blocks : 350 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 12
- Number of miniatures : 12
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Soane Josephus (and workshop)
- M Edward IV (influence)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (black morocco, with clasps, The Hague)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Flavius Josephus
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : De bello judaico (vol. 2)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, Paris 1914, ill. 28 (f.305)
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, Kathleen Jackson, with Joanna Fronska and Deirdre Jackson, Royal Manuscripts. The Genius of Illumination, Exhibition Catalogue, British Library, London, 2011, no. 52
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, p.220
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992, cat. no. 15 (ill. p.100 (f.140), p.155 (f.1), p.189 (f.295)
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.295, text ill. 80 (M Soane Josephus)
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. 081
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.232
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.361, 368
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. 430
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. 052