2804 : Vita Christi (vol. 1/4)
Number
2804
Shelf Marks
Owners before c.1550
- Johann von Oettingen
Commissioners
- Johann von Oettingen
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1487-1500 (after 1487)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1490 - 1499
Physical description
Measurements
- 305 (8+297) 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 : 37
- Number of miniatures : 37
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
"Ou que je'soie"
Miniaturists
- M Edward IV (and follower)
- M Bruges 1482 (influence) ??
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (red morocco)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
Authors
- Ludolphus de Saxonia
Translators
- Guillaume Lemenand
Contents
- 1 : Vita Christi (vol. 1/4)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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, no. 096
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.340, 466
Claudine Lemaire, ‘Les manuscrits de Jean II, comte d’Oettingen ou la fin d’une légende’, Anny Raman & Eugène Manning, Miscellanea Martin Wittek. Album de codicologie et de paléographie offert à Martin Wittek, Leuven 1993, 243-253, (ill. f.47)
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010: Johann von Oettingen, no. 4
Claudine Lemaire, ‘Les manuscrits de Jean II, comte d’Oettingen ou la fin d’une légende’, Anny Raman & Eugène Manning, Miscellanea Martin Wittek. Album de codicologie et de paléographie offert à Martin Wittek, Leuven 1993, 243-253: Johann von Oettingen no. 1
Online Informations and images
See: http://images.bnf.fr/
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 12 photos; Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo (f.47)