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2689  :  Horologium sapientiae vol. 2)

Number

2689


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 456

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.1470-1480
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

  • 101 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 370 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 275 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 1
  • Number of miniatures : 1
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Margaret of York
  • M London Add. 18798

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • Hendricus Suso

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Horologium sapientiae vol. 2)

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: M Margaret of York

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, p.227

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Margaret of York ?

Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992, ill.

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.247 (M Margaret of York)

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. 31b

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.333

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 158 (M Margaret of York)

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. 090b

Online Informations and images

See: http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9059817h

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo (f.167)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman