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2798  :  Dits moraux des philosophes Mortifiement

Number

2798


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 19039
  • Saint Germain des Prés
  • Gabriel Meurier (1623)

Owners before c.1550

  • Lord of Flagy
  • Marie van Horn (1599)

Commissioners

  • Lord of Flagy
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Jean Coppre (Priest at Varromgnes)

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : 1514
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1510 - 1519


Physical description

Measurements

  • 286 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 300-324 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 300 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 210 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 8
  • Number of miniatures : 8
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

"J'attends l'heur"

Miniaturists

  • M Davidscenes Grimani
  • M Prayer Books c.1500 (circle) ?

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • ...
  • René d'Anjou

Translators

  • Guillaume de Tignonville

Contents

  • 1 : Dits moraux des philosophes
  • 2 : Mortifiement

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Alain Arnould & Jean Michel Massing, Splendours of Flanders. Late Medieval Art in Cambridge Collections, Cambridge 1993, no. 50

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.383-5 (M Davidscenes) (as BNF, fr 19059)

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.378

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. 222

Frédéric Lyna, Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance de Rene d’Anjou. Étude du texte et des manuscrits à peintures, Brussels 1927 [text edition & images of all miniatures]

Online Informations and images

See: http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9007007c

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 6 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman