2847 : Liber Floridus
Number
2847
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, lat 9675 (suppl. lat. 107, anc. suppl. 539)
Owners before c.1550
- Godevaert de Wilde
- Philip the Good
- Library Burgundian Dukes
Commissioners
- Godevaert de Wilde
- Townsman
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Stephanus Clivis
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent ?
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Date
- Date details : 1429
- Half centuries : 1400-1449
- Decade : 1420 - 1429
Physical description
Measurements
- 233 (232+1) leaves
- Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
- Height of text blocks : 295 mm
- Width of text blocks : 217 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 4
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials : 4
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Guillebert van Mets
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (Louis-Philippe), restaured in 1975
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Lambert of St Omer
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Liber Floridus
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Guillebert van Mets
Anne-Marie Legaré, ‘Les cent quatorze manuscrits de Bourgogne choisis par le comte d’Argenson pour le roi Louis XV. Édition de la liste de 1748’, Bulletin du bibliophile, 1998, 241-329, no. 095
Céline Van Hoorebeeck, Livres et lectures des fonctionnaires des ducs de Bourgogne (ca 1420-1520), thèse de doctorat de l'Université de Namur, 2007 (2 volumes), II, 267
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.226, 305, 488
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. 065, 149
Albert Derolez (ed.), Lambertus, Liber floridus : codex autographus Bibliothecae Universitatis Gandavensis, Ghent 1968
Catalogue des manuscrits datés: France, vol. III, p. 135
Thomas Falmagne & Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), Corpus Catalogorum Belgii. The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries. Volume V: Ducs de Bourgogne, Brussels (forthcoming in 2010): Dukes of Burgundy
Online Informations and images
See: http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9076695n
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 15664-66; Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 11 photos