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2880  :  De consolatione philosophiae

Number

2880


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, néerl 1

Owners before c.1550

Commissioners

  • Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Couple

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Jan van Kriekenborch

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent
  • Date
    • Date details : 1492
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1490 - 1499


Physical description

Measurements

  • 392 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 500-524 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 510 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 380 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations : 5
  • Number of miniatures : 5
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Flemish Boetius

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 18th c. (Louis XV)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • Boetius

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : De consolatione philosophiae

Languages

  • Latin
  • Dutch

Bibliography

Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 059 (f.58)

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 115, coul. pl. 31 (f.58v), p.214

Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 626 (ill. 89: f.57v)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: So called A Bening, ill.. 100 (f.12v)

Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992, ill. p.145

Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], Fig. 22 (f.57v), p.22

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.112 (n51)

Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.0048

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. 69

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.271, 364

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, No. 128, p. 064, 425-428, 433

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. 138

Online Informations and images

Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84511055 ; See also: http://mandragore.bnf.fr

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 4 photos (f.12v, 58v, 116v, 212v); Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman