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2261  :  Livre des trois vertus

Number

2261


Shelf Marks

  • New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, 427
  • Kraus (1968)
  • E de Rothschild
  • Louis de Gand

Owners before c.1550

  • Fam. Crèvecoeur

Commissioners

/

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Date
    • Date details : 1460
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1460 - 1469


Physical description

Measurements

  • 102 (2+1+96+1+2) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 350 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 255 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 4
  • Number of miniatures : 4
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Rambures

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c.
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Christine de Pizan

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Livre des trois vertus

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

François Avril & Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, Paris 1993, p.093

Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996 (cat. no. 01)

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.519

Thomas Hoving, Timothy B. Husband & Jane Hayward, The Secular Spirit. Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages, exhib. cat., New York 1975, no. 177

Barbara A. Shailor, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Vol. I: 1-250. Vol. II: 251-500 (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 34 & 48), Binghamton (N.Y) 1984, no. 426 (ill.: pl. 14)

Online Informations and images

Description: http://brbl-net.library.yale.edu/pre1600ms/docs/pre1600.ms427.htm; Images, see: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman