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2692  :  De primo bello punico

Number

2692


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 724

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
    • Details : Bruges ? / Lille ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470 (c.1470-1480)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 186 (1+3+1+5+4+164+4+4) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 300-324 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 321 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 217 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 11
  • Number of miniatures : 10
  • Number of historiated initials : 1
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Margaret of York
  • M Golden Fleece Vienna and Copenhagen

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (lightbrown morocco, Napoleon …)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Titus Livius + Leonardo Bruni

Translators

  • Jean Le Bègue

Contents

  • 1 : De primo bello punico

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.227

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. 44

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.469

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. 380, 384

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. 095

Online Informations and images

See: http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9058804k

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo (f.6)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman