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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

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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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman