2328 : Legenda aurea (vol. 1)
Number
2328
Shelf Marks
- Ashburnham
- Barrois, no. 69 (+ Macon, BM, 3)
Owners before c.1550
- Jean IV d'Auxy (c.1422-1470)
- Charles de Chabannes (1540)
Commissioners
- Jean IV d'Auxy (c.1422-1470)
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
David Aubert ?
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ? / Lille ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1470 (c.1450-1460 ??)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 114 (124?) leaves
- Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
- Height of text blocks : 379 mm
- Width of text blocks : 270 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 30
- Number of miniatures : 30
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Willem Vrelant
- M Vraie chronique dEscoce
- Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes
- M Sapience
- M Margaret of York
- Loyset Liédet (signed)
- M Golden Fleece Vienna and Copenhagen
- M Hadrian
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (red morocco, Chambolle-Duru)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
Authors
- Jacobus de Voragine
Translators
- Jean de Vignay
Contents
- 1 : Legenda aurea (vol. 1)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
De eeuw der Vlaamse primitieven. Tentoonstelling ingericht door het Stadsbestuur van Brugge en The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA, exhib. cat., Brugge 1960, no. 198 (ill. f.1)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant (erroneous number)
Richard E.F. Straub, David Aubert, escripvain et clerc (Faux titre. Etudes de langue et littérature françaises, 96), Amsterdam-Atlanta 1995, Section 2.2.4.13a
Bernard Bousmanne, “Item a Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur”: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l’enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire, Turnhout 1997, p.299, M Vraie Cronique d'Escoce
Anne Hagiopan van Buren, ‘Willem Vrelant, Questions and Issues’, Revue belge d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art, 68 (1999), 3-30, Vrelant and M Polemical Texts
Medieval Mastery. Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold, 800-1475, exhib. cat., Leuven 2002, no. 83
Brigitte Dekeyser & Jan Van der Stock, Manuscripts in Transition. Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002) (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 15), Leuven 2005, p.285, 289
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.157
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.469, 517
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. 248, 256, 380
Jean M. Caswell, ‘Two Manuscripts from the Chroniques II Workshop. Chroniques de Hainaut, Volume II and Morgan-Macon Golden Legend’, Revue Belge d’Archéologie et d’Histoire de l’Art, 62 (1993), 17-45
William M Voelkle , Illuminated Manuscripts: Treasures of the Pierpont Morgan Library New York, New York 1998, p. 008, 205 (f.1)
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