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 ?
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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)