2764 : Livre des simples médecines Lapidaire Receptae
Number
2764
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 9136 (anc. suppl. fr. 1240)
Owners before c.1550
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Louis XII of France
Commissioners
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
David Aubert ?
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1480 (before 1492 / c.1480-1492 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 388 (375+10+2+1) leaves
- Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
- Height of text blocks : 399 mm
- Width of text blocks : 290 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 2 large miniatures, 17 small miniatures, many plants
- Total number of illustrations : 19
- Number of miniatures : 19
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Flemish Boetius
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (modern)
- Dating : Unknown
Content
Genre
scientific
Authors
- Mattheus Platearius
- Jean de Mandeville
- etc.
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Livre des simples médecines
- 2 : Lapidaire
- 3 : Receptae
Languages
- French (+ Dutch)
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: Alexander Bening
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, p.228
Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule II (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 7), Vienna 1990, fig. 105 (p.101)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: So called A Bening
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. 021 (f.344)
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. 67
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.364
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. 426
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. 131
Online Informations and images
Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60004232 ; See also: http://mandragore.bnf.fr
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 7 photos