2789 : Olivier de Castille et Arthus d'Algarbe
Number
2789
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 12574 (anc. suppl. fr. 540, 9)
Owners before c.1550
- Philip the Good
- Charles the Bold
- Philip the Fair
- Library Burgundian Dukes
Commissioners
- Philip the Good
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Man
- Charles the Bold
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
David Aubert
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : 1468-1470 (1467-1477)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 188 (185+3) leaves
- Size categories of height : 325-349 mm
- Height of text blocks : 342 mm
- Width of text blocks : 240 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 21
- Number of miniatures : 21
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
"Que vouloir" (f.187); "Ung seul bouton" (f.187v); "Faulte qui soyt. Berghes"
Miniaturists
- Loyset Liédet
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (Louis XV) (original binding in white leather)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
literary
Authors
- Philippe Camus
Translators
- David Aubert
Contents
- 1 : Olivier de Castille et Arthus d'Algarbe
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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. 152, Liédet (style), after 1467, text before 1467
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)
Edmund Bowles, Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages / La pratique musicale au moyen âge, Geneva 1983, no. 044 (f.181v)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Loyset Liédet, ill.. 63 (f.1)
Robert Born, Les Lalaing. Une grande “mesnie” hennuyère, de l’aventure d’Outrée au siècle des gueux (1096-1600), Brussels 1986, p.106 (frontispiece)
Richard E.F. Straub, David Aubert, escripvain et clerc (Faux titre. Etudes de langue et littérature françaises, 96), Amsterdam-Atlanta 1995, Section 2.2.3.07
Anne-Marie Legaré, ‘Les cent quatorze manuscrits de Bourgogne choisis par le comte d’Argenson pour le roi Louis XV. Édition de la liste de 1748’, Bulletin du bibliophile, 1998, 241-329, no. 018
Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.080, 89
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.233, 236, 320, 538
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. 062, p. 065, 106, 111, 267, 274
Marcel Van Houtryve, ‘Un manuscrit d’Olivier de Castille enluminé par Liédet (Paris B.N. fr. 12574)’, Scriptorium, 4 (1950), 240-243
Elizabeth Moodey, Illuminated Crusader Histories for Philip the Good of Burgundy, Turnhout 2012, p. 214
Online Informations and images
Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8449031h
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File France 10 (20 photos of 20 miniatures); Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 14 photos