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 ?)
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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