2766 : Echècs amoureux moralisées
Number
2766
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 9197 (anc. suppl. fr. 3201, 2)
Owners before c.1550
- Antoine Rolin ?
Commissioners
- Antoine Rolin ?
- Court functionary; Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Hainaut
- Towns : Mons
- Details : Mons ? (Hainaut)
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Date
- Date details : 1490-1497
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1490 - 1499
Physical description
Measurements
- 352 (12+340) leaves
- Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
- Height of text blocks : 440 mm
- Width of text blocks : 310 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 24
- Number of miniatures : 24
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Antoine Rolin
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (mottled calf)
- Dating : Unknown
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Evrard de Conty
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Echècs amoureux moralisées
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Leonardo Olschki, Manuscrits français à peintures des bibliothèques d’Allemagne, Geneva 1932, p.19
Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 070 (f.202)
Anne-Marie Legaré, ‘The Master of Antoine Rolin. A Hainaut Illuminator Working in the Orbit of Simon Marmion’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Visions of Tondal. Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections (June 21-24, 1990), Los Angeles 1992, 209-222, ill. of all miniatures
Anne-Marie Legaré, Le livre des échecs amoureux, Paris 1991, no. 04, M Antoine Rolin
Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], Fig. 29 (f.13), p.35
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.217 (M Antoine Rolin)
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.452
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. 040 (f.237), p.118 (f.202)
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.0773, 1011
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, p.407-8
Céline Van Hoorebeeck, Livres et lectures des fonctionnaires des ducs de Bourgogne (ca 1420-1520), thèse de doctorat de l'Université de Namur, 2007 (2 volumes), II, 239
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.456, 485
Françoise Guichard-Tesson, Bruno Roy (eds.), Evrart de Conty. Le Livre des Eschez amoureux moralisés, Montréal 1993 [text edition]
Anne-Marie Legaré, Le livre des échecs amoureux, Paris 1991, [images of all miniatures] [images of all miniatures]
Online Informations and images
See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 13 photos