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2617  :  Commentarii de bello gallico

Number

2617


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 38

Owners before c.1550

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
  • Louis XII of France

Commissioners

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

David Aubert ?

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent
  • Date
    • Date details : 1482
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • (no data) leaves
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  • Height of text blocks : (no data) mm
  • Width of text blocks : (no data) mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 11
  • Number of miniatures : 11
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Flemish Boetius

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Julius Caesar

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Commentarii de bello gallico

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Friedrich Winkler, Die Flämische Buchmalerei des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts: Künstler und Werke von den Brüdern van Eyck bis zu Simon Bening, Leipzig 1925: Alexander Bening, 1482

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 112, p.214

Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 620 (ill. 87: f.26)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: So called A Bening

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.309

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. 64

Cyriel Stroo, De celebratie van de macht. Presentatieminiaturen een aanverwante voorstellingen in handschriften van Philips de Goede (1419-1467) en Karel de Stoute (1467-1477) (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten. Nieuwe reeks, 7), Turnhout 2002, ill. 143

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. 058

Online Informations and images

See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9059443m / http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90594441

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 5 photos (f.26, 94, 157v, 182, 236)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman