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
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Date
- Date details : 1482
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- (no data) leaves
- Size categories of height : (no data) mm
- 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
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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)