2664 : Fleur des histoires (vol. 1)
Number
2664
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 296 (+ fr 296-299)
Owners before c.1550
- Jean Louis of Savoy
- Louis of Savoy
- Charles I of Savoy
- Blanche of Savoy
- Yolande-Louise of Savoy
- King Francis I of France
Commissioners
- Jean Louis of Savoy (bishop of Geneva1460-1482)
- Clergy: Prelat; Foreigner
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1475-1482 (before 1482)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 303 (1+6+294+1+1) leaves
- Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
- Height of text blocks : 418 mm
- Width of text blocks : 308 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 1 large and 1 small miniature
- Total number of illustrations : 2
- Number of miniatures : 2
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Soane Josephus
- Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes (decoration)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (red morocco, Louis XV)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Jean Mansel
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Fleur des histoires (vol. 1)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (ed.), Les manuscrits enluminés des comtes et ducs de Savoie, Turin 1991, no. I-34a (ill. 31: f.1)
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.261-2, 292
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, p.72
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.440, 583
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. 284-285, 335
Nicolas et Odette Orloff-Govaerts (eds.): Jean Mansel, La Fleur des histoires, premier livre (avec notes, index et glossaire), 3 volumes, Saint-Pierre-de-Chignac – Le Royalet-sous-l’Alisier 1998 [text edition, book I]
Online Informations and images
Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10507210m ; See also: http://mandragore.bnf.fr
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 2 photos (f.1, 146)