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2587  :  De Civitate Dei (books 1-4)

Number

2587


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Institut, 1 (fol 5)
  • Paris, Bibliothèque de la ville
  • Antoine Moriau (d.1760)

Owners before c.1550

/

Commissioners

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Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1450
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459

Physical description

Measurements

  • 376 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 380 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 285 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 1
  • Number of miniatures : 1
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Chroniques d'Angleterre

Material

Mixed (paper + parchment)

Binding

  • Description : (pale calf over wooden boards)
  • Dating : Unknown


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • Augustine

Translators

  • Raoul de Presles

Contents

  • 1 : De Civitate Dei (books 1-4)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

A. de Laborde, Les Manuscrits à peintures de la Cité de Dieu de Saint Augustin, Paris 1909, no. 40 (ill. 29a: f.4)

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.183

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman