2774 : Cyropaedia
Number
2774
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 9737 (anc. suppl. fr. 178)
- Nicolaus de Villers (1673)
Owners before c.1550
- Jean V de Créquy
Commissioners
/
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Brabant
- Details : Brabant ? / Hainaut ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1470-1475 (after 1470)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 183 leaves
- Size categories of height : 300-324 mm
- Height of text blocks : 320 mm
- Width of text blocks : 220 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 5
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles : 5
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (half binding)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Xenophon
Translators
- Vasco da Lucena (Lat-Fr)
- Poggio (Gr-Lat)
Contents
- 1 : Cyropaedia
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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.310, 314
Danielle Gallet-Guerne, Vasque de Lucène et la Cyropédie à la Cour de Bourgogne (1470). Le traité de Xenophon mis en français d’après la version latine du Pogge. Étude. Édition des livres I et V (Travaux d’humanisme et renaissance, 140), Geneva 1974, (4 ill.)
Online Informations and images
See: http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9060794f
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 4 photos
Responsable
Hanno Wijsman