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2840  :  Cosmographia

Number

2840


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, lat 4804

Owners before c.1550

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
  • Louis XII of France

Commissioners

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Jan van Kriekenborch

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Ghent (Bruges ?)
  • Date
    • Date details : 1485
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • (no data) leaves
  • Size categories of height : (no data) mm
  • Height of text blocks : (no data) mm
  • Width of text blocks : (no data) mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 2 min(f.1v, 4v), many maps
  • Total number of illustrations : 33
  • Number of miniatures : 33
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Edward IV
  • M Flemish Boetius
  • Jan van Kriekenborch ?
  • Jean Perréal (addition 1498)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

scientific

Authors

  • Ptolomaeus

Translators

  • Jacobus Angelus

Contents

  • 1 : Cosmographia

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 115, p.214

Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 623

Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992, ill. p.40

Pierre Cockshaw & Christiane Van den Bergen-Pantens (eds.), L’ordre de la Toison d’or de Philippe le Bon à Philippe le Beau (1430-1505). Idéal ou reflet d’une société?, Turnhout 1996, Section VI-38

Brigitte Dekeyser & Jan Van der Stock, Manuscripts in Transition. Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002) (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 15), Leuven 2005, p.254-255, 259

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.309

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, no. 60

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. 064, 426, 428

François Avril, La passion des manuscrits enluminés: bibliophiles français, 1280-1580, exhib. cat., Paris 1991, no. 41 (ill. frontispiece)

Claudine Lemaire, ‘Lijst van handschriften’, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992: Lodewijk van Gruuthuse, no. 135

Online Informations and images

Digitisation : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60007804

Photo Archives

Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File France 10 (photos of f.1, 4, 103-104); Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 5 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman