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2794  :  Faits du chevalier Jacques de Lalaing

Number

2794


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 16830
  • Saint Germain des Prés, no. 118
  • Henri-Charles de Cambout, duc de Coislin, évêque de Metz (†1732)
  • Séguier

Owners before c.1550

  • William, Lord Hastings (d.1483)
  • Fam. Melun

Commissioners

  • William, Lord Hastings (d.1483)
    • Foreigner
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1475-1480
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

  • 232 (2+2+7+215+2+2+2) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 376 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 270 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 18
  • Number of miniatures : 18
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

arms of Melun painted over erased arms of Hastings; arms of Lalaing and Croy in frontispiece miniature

Miniaturists

  • M White Inscriptions (frontispice)
  • M Chattering Hands

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (red paste board, leather spine, bibliothèque imperiale)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Faits du chevalier Jacques de Lalaing

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Leonardo Olschki, Manuscrits français à peintures des bibliothèques d’Allemagne, Geneva 1932, p.60

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.0783-791 (Legaré), 1641-1661 (Wijsman)

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.72, 75

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.65, 140, 517, 584 (M Chattering Hands, no. 45)

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. 089, p. 283-285, 340

Colette Beaune (ed.), Splendeurs de la cour de Bourgogne. Recits et chroniques, Paris 1995 [translation in modern French]

Richard Barber & Juliet Barker, Tournaments. Jousts, chivalry and pageants in the Middle Ages, Woodbridge 1989, p. 1, 119

Anne F. Sutton & Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III’s Books. Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince, Stroud 1997, ill. 62

Online Informations and images

See: http://images.bnf.fr/

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 9 photos (f.1, 31, 47, 66v, 81v, 107v, 124, 142, 202)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman