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2810  :  Grande histoire de César

Number

2810


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 20312bis
  • Cardinal Richelieu

Owners before c.1550

  • Wolfert van Borssele
  • Duke of Aarschot (1584)

Commissioners

  • Wolfert van Borssele (d.1487)
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1473-1478
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

  • 330 (3+2+6+315+2+2) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 441 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 322 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 11 large, 20 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 31
  • Number of miniatures : 31
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Margaret of York (and workshop)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 17th c. (red morocco, Richelieu)
  • Dating : 1600-1700


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

/

Translators

  • Pierre Bersuire

Contents

  • 1 : Grande histoire de César

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.262-263, 265, 340

Scot McKendrick, ‘La Grande Histoire César and the Manuscripts of Edward IV’, Peter Beal & Jeremy Griffits (eds.), English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, London-Oxford 1990, 109-138

Louis-Fernand Flûtre & K. Sneyders de Vogel 9eds.), Li Fet des Romains, compilé ensemble de Salluste et de Suétone et de Lucain : texte du XIIIe siècle publié pour la première fois d'après les meilleurs manuscrits, Geneva 1938 [text edition]

Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010: Wolfert van Borssele, no. 07

Hanno Wijsman, Gebonden weelde. Productie van geïllustreerde handschriften en adellijk boekenbezit in de Bourgondische Nederlanden (1400-1550), doctoral dissertation, Leiden University 2003 [with a summary in French]: Wolfert van Borssele, no. 07

Online Informations and images

See: http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90640147

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 10 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman