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2616  :  Histoire romaine (decade 1)

Number

2616


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 34

Owners before c.1550

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
  • Louis XII of France

Commissioners

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse ?
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Ghent (Bruges ?)
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470-1480
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

  • 476 leaves
  • Size categories of height : (no data) mm
  • Height of text blocks : (no data) mm
  • Width of text blocks : (no data) mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 11 large, 95 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 106
  • Number of miniatures : 106
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Margaret of York

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Titus Livius

Translators

  • Pierre Bersuire

Contents

  • 1 : Histoire romaine (decade 1)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 107

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Lieven Van Lathem?

Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992, ill. p.131, 132

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, no. 24

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.332, 361

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. 276, 340

Claudine Lemaire, ‘Lijst van handschriften’, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992: Lodewijk van Gruuthuse, no. 057

Online Informations and images

See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90589572

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 3 photos (f.1, 122v, 253v)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman