3079 : Metamorphoses
Number
3079
Shelf Marks
- Sankt Peterburg, Rossijskaja nacionalnaja Biblioteka (RNB), Fr. F.v.XIV.1
- Suchtelen
- Meerman
Owners before c.1550
- Wolfert van Borssele
Commissioners
- Wolfert van Borssele (d.1487)
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
Russia
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : 1478-1487 (c.1470-1478 ? / before 1478 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 264 leaves
- Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
- Height of text blocks : 450 mm
- Width of text blocks : 335 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 1
- Number of miniatures : 1
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Margaret of York
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (red leather over paste board)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Ovidius
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Metamorphoses
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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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.0086, 589
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, p.118-120
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.262-263, 274
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. 304
Edith Brayer, ‘Manuscrits français du moyen âge conservés à Leningrad’, Bulletin d’information de l'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, 7 (1958), p. 23-31, p. 27
Tamara Voronova, & Andreï Sterligov, Manuscrits enluminés occidentaux. VIIIe-XVIe siècles, Bournemouth-Saint Petersburg 1996, no. 374 (ill. f.13)
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010: Wolfert van Borssele, no. 08
Hanno Wijsman, Gebonden weelde. Productie van geïllustreerde handschriften en adellijk boekenbezit in de Bourgondische Nederlanden (1400-1550), doctoral dissertation, Leiden University 2003 [with a summary in French]: Wolfert van Borssele, no. 08
Photo Archives
IRHT (Paris-Orléans), Slide Collection [slides of all miniatures]