2671 : Speculum historiale (vol. 1)
Number
2671
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 308 (+ fr 308-311)
Owners before c.1550
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Louis XII of France
Commissioners
- ?
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1400-1410 (Paris, borders); c.1455 (SN, miniatures)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1450 - 1459
Physical description
Measurements
- 385 (2+381+2) leaves
- Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
- Height of text blocks : 415 mm
- Width of text blocks : 315 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 1 large miniatures, 131 small grisaille miniatures, the miniatures are numbered 1-131
- Total number of illustrations : 132
- Number of miniatures : 1
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles : 131
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Willem Vrelant (and workshop)
- M Arsenal 575
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern (red morocco, Louis XV, restaured 1973)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Vincent de Beauvais
Translators
- Jean de Vignay
Contents
- 1 : Speculum historiale (vol. 1)
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: Vrelant, 1455
Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 014 (f.13)
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, p.212-213
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant
Bernard Bousmanne, Guillaume Wielant of Willem Vrelant. Miniaturist aan het Bourgondische hof in de 15e eeuw, exhib. cat., Brussels 1997 [also published in French], 27
Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996
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. 02a
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.361
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, No. 044, p. 239, 242-245
J.D. Farquhar, Creation and Imitation. The Work of a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Illuminator, Fort Lauderdale 1976
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. 085a
Online Informations and images
See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9060023z
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 14 photos