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2650  :  Livre des Saints Angeles

Number

2650


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 186

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 : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1480 (before 1492)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1460 - 1469


Physical description

Measurements

  • 256 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 382 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 272 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 5
  • Number of miniatures : 5
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Getty Froissart
  • Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes (margins)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 17th/18th c. (red morocco, King of France)
  • Dating : 1600-1700


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • Franciscus Eximenes

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Livre des Saints Angeles

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, p.226

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. 62

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.294

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. 072

Online Informations and images

See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9059046g

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: no photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman