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2883  :  Vita St Catherina of Alexandria

Number

2883


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, néerl 129
  • le comte Guy de Boisrouvray
  • H. Harvey Frost
  • J.R. Anderson
  • Sotheby's 1948-05-03/4, no. 431

Owners before c.1550

  • Birgittine convent of Marienwater, Rosmalen (near Hertogenbosch ('s))

Commissioners

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Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Brabant
    • Details : North Brabant
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1500
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1500 - 1509


Physical description

Measurements

  • 163 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 225-249 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 249 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 171 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 6
  • Number of miniatures : 1
  • Number of historiated initials : 5
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Marienwater
  • other hand

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Vita St Catherina of Alexandria

Languages

  • Dutch

Bibliography

Jan Deschamps, Middelnederlandse handschriften uit Europese en Amerikaanse bibliotheken, exhib. cat. (Brussels 1970), Leiden 1972, no. 072 (ill. 60, 61)

Anne Korteweg (ed.), Kriezels, aubergines en takkenbossen: randversiering in Noordnederlandse handschriften uit de vijftiende eeuw, exhib. cat., The Hague-Zutphen 1992, p.154

Hanno Wijsman, Handschriften voor het hertogdom. De mooiste verluchte manuscripten van hertogen, adellieden, kloosterlingen en stedelingen, ’s-Hertogenbosch 2006, no. 18

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, neue Folge V, Bibermühle 2008, p. 478

Online Informations and images

See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 7 photos (f.1, 12, 33v, 34, 90, 115)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman