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2672  :  Speculum historiale (vol. 2)

Number

2672


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 309 (+ 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
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1400-1410 (Paris, borders); c.1455 (SN, miniatures)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459


Physical description

Measurements

  • 400 (3+393+4) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 429 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 326 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 89
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles : 89
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Willem Vrelant (and workshop)
  • M Arsenal 575

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : modern (red morocco, Louis XV)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Vincent de Beauvais

Translators

  • Jean de Vignay

Contents

  • 1 : Speculum historiale (vol. 2)

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.212-213

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant

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

Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.0116

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. 02b

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. 045, 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. 085b

Online Informations and images

See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90599455

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 12 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman