2714 : Cité des dames Livre des trois vertus
Number
2714
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 1177
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.1470-1480
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 213 (3+206+4) leaves
- Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
- Height of text blocks : 285 mm
- Width of text blocks : 195 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 1 large, 3 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 4
- Number of miniatures : 4
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Margaret of York
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. e? (red morocco, King of France)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Christine de Pizan
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Cité des dames
- 2 : Livre des trois vertus
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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. 39
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.357, 359
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. 276
Online Informations and images
Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84497026
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 2 photos (f.3v, 114)