2758 : Vita St Catherina
Number
2758
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 6449 (anc. suppl. fr. 540, 2)
Owners before c.1550
- Philip the Good
- Library Burgundian Dukes
Commissioners
- Philip the Good ? (or a gift to him ?)
- Sovereign: Prince
- 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.1460 (1457-1467)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 110 leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 370 mm
- Width of text blocks : 250 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 63
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles : 63
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Willem Vrelant
- M Vraie chronique dEscoce
- m Hadrian (f.31v, 34v, 47, 56, 57)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (Napoleon I) (original binding by Lievin Stuvaert,Ghent)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
Authors
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Translators
- Jean Miélot
Contents
- 1 : Vita St Catherina
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: Vrelant, before 1467
Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 013 (f.50)
Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 139, Vrelant, Bruges, binding of Lievin Stuuaert, for Philip the Good
G.I. Lieftinck, Boekverluchters uit de omgeving van Maria van Bourgondie ca. 1475 - ca. 1485 (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Klasse der Letteren, 66), 2 vols., Brussels 1969, p.057
Georges Dogaer & Marguerite Debae, La librairie de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels 1967 [also published in Dutch: De librije van Filips de Goede, Brussels 1967] (in list p. 161-163)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant
Bernard Bousmanne, Guillaume Wielant of Willem Vrelant. Miniaturist aan het Bourgondische hof in de 15e eeuw, exhib. cat., Brussels 1997 [also published in French], 28
Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996
Anne Hagiopan van Buren, ‘Willem Vrelant, Questions and Issues’, Revue belge d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art, 68 (1999), 3-30, Vrelant and M Polemical Texts
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, p.24
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.204, 233, 235
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. 050, p. 065, 239, 244, 249, 252-253, 256-257, 398
Thomas Falmagne & Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), Corpus Catalogorum Belgii. The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries. Volume V: Ducs de Bourgogne, Brussels (forthcoming in 2010): Dukes of Burgundy
Online Informations and images
Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52502597s
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 57 photos