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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 ?
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman