2661 : Facta et dicta memorabilia
Number
2661
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 287
- Regius 6913
Owners before c.1550
- Louis of Bourbon ?
- Guillaume de la Baume
Commissioners
/
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Ludovicus de Bourbon?
Origin
-
Place
- Details : SN ? (NN ? / France ?)
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Date
- Date details : c.1460-1490
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 212 leaves
- Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
- Height of text blocks : 389 mm
- Width of text blocks : 296 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 10
- Number of miniatures : 10
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (red morocco)
- Dating : Unknown
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Valerius Maximus
Translators
- Simon de Hesdin + Nicolas de Gonesse
Contents
- 1 : Facta et dicta memorabilia
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, Paris 1921, p.69
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.518
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. 064
Claudine Lemaire, ‘Guillaume de la Baume, seigneur d’Irlain, chevalier de la Toison d’or et bibliophile’, Bulletin d’information du Centre européen d’études bourguignonnes, no. 29 (1998), 6-8; no. 30 (1998), 6-8; no. 31 (1999), 8-10: Guillaume de la Baume, no. 3
Online Informations and images
See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9009561h
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 2 photos (f.1)