2713 : Les douze dames de rhetorique
Number
2713
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 1174
Owners before c.1550
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Louis XII of France
Commissioners
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse ?
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1470 (after 1468)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 047 leaves
- Size categories of height : 300-324 mm
- Height of text blocks : 300 mm
- Width of text blocks : 220 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 14
- Number of miniatures : 14
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Anthony of Burgundy (miniatures)
- Lieven van Lathem (decoration)
- Nicolaes Spierinc (decoration)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (original binding in red velvet was still there in 1831)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Jean Robertet + Georges Chastelain
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Les douze dames de rhetorique
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, Paris 1929, ill. 1-8 (f.1, 13v, 17, 22v, 23v, 24v, 25v, 26v, etc.)
Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 050 (f.17)
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 110, coul. pl. 24-26 (f.25v, f.30v)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Philippe de Mazerolles, Lieven Van Lathem
Alain Arnould & Jean Michel Massing, Splendours of Flanders. Late Medieval Art in Cambridge Collections, Cambridge 1993, no. 51
Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], p.413
Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 340 (f.1)
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.1219
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, no. 069
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. 22
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. 077, p. 311, 314
David Cowling (ed.), George Chastelain, Jean Robertet, Jean de Montferrant : Les douze dames de rhétorique, (Textes littésraires français, 549), Geneva 2006, P1 [text edition]
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. 109
Online Informations and images
See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9059145d
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 13 photos (f.13v, 17, 22v. 23v, etc.)