2578 : Facta et dicta memorabilia
Number
2578
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BA, 5196
Owners before c.1550
- Wolfert van Borssele
- Library Burgundian Dukes
Commissioners
- Wolfert van Borssele (d.1487)
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1460-1465 (after 1444 / before 1465 / c.1470 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 453 (1+1+1+2+446+1+1) leaves
- Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
- Height of text blocks : 451 mm
- Width of text blocks : 325 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 9 large, 81 other miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 90
- Number of miniatures : 90
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
"Pour s james"
Miniaturists
- M Rambures(frontispiece)
- M Wauquelin's Alexander
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (Paulmy)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Valerius Maximus
Translators
- Simon de Hesdin + Nicolas de Gonesse
Contents
- 1 : Facta et dicta memorabilia
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Henry Martin & Philippe Lauer, Les principaux manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal à Paris (Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits a` peintures, 11), Paris 1929, p.45 (ill. 55-56: f.257, 338v, 357v)
Friedrich Winkler, Die Flämische Buchmalerei des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts: Künstler und Werke von den Brüdern van Eyck bis zu Simon Bening, Leipzig 1925: Dresdener Nachfolger Vrelants
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant
François Avril & Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, Paris 1993, cat. no. 047 (ill. f.1)
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.050 (n53)
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. 194 (f.257)
Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.0086, 589, 619, 622
Elisabeth Antoine et al., Sur la terre comme au ciel. Jardins d’occident à la fin du Moyen Age, exhib. cat., Paris 2002, no. 89
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, p.255-6
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.264, 266-267
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. 300, 406
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010: Wolfert van Borssele, no. 06
Hanno Wijsman, Gebonden weelde. Productie van geïllustreerde handschriften en adellijk boekenbezit in de Bourgondische Nederlanden (1400-1550), doctoral dissertation, Leiden University 2003 [with a summary in French]: Wolfert van Borssele, no. 06
Online Informations and images
Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55007803g
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 9 photos