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2087  :  Visions du chevalier Tondal

Number

2087


Shelf Marks

  • Los Angeles, JP Getty Museum, 30 (acc. 87.ML.141)
  • Cambridge (MA), Houghton Library, typ 234
  • Ph. Hofer
  • Kraus, In Retrospect, no. 79)

Owners before c.1550

  • Margaret of York

Commissioners

  • Margaret of York
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Woman

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

David Aubert

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Hainaut
    • Towns : Valenciennes
    • Details : Valenciennes
  • Date
    • Date details : 1475
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 064 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 363 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 262 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 20
  • Number of miniatures : 20
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Simon Marmion

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (Getty 30 and 31 were originally in one volume)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Visions du chevalier Tondal

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Anne-Marie Legaré, ‘The Master of Antoine Rolin. A Hainaut Illuminator Working in the Orbit of Simon Marmion’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Visions of Tondal. Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections (June 21-24, 1990), Los Angeles 1992, 209-222, ill. p.80

Richard E.F. Straub, David Aubert, escripvain et clerc (Faux titre. Etudes de langue et littérature françaises, 96), Amsterdam-Atlanta 1995, Section 2.2.2.14

François Avril & Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, Paris 1993, p.089

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.163, 222 (Marmion)

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. 7.38-40 (f.17, 15v, 33v)

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. 166 (f.7)

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. 014

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.100-101, 113

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. 396-398, 424

Thomas Kren & Roger Wieck, The Visions of Tondal from the Library of Margaret of York, Malibu (CA) 1990 [images of all miniatures]

Thomas Kren (ed.), Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Visions of Tondal. Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections (June 21-24, 1990), Los Angeles 1992: Margaret, no. 1-05

Online Informations and images

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1502

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 06082-6105

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman