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3246  :  Livre des problemes (part 1)

Number

3246


Shelf Marks

  • Den Haag, KB, 133 A 3i
  • Stadholders

Owners before c.1550

  • Engelbert II of Nassau ?
  • Hendrik III of Nassau

Commissioners

/

Country

Netherlands


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470-1480
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 329 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 407 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 300 mm

Illustrations

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

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 18th c.
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • ps Aristoteles

Translators

  • Evrard de Conty

Contents

  • 1 : Livre des problemes (part 1)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Anne Korteweg, Boeken van Oranje-Nassau. De bibliotheek van de graven van Nassau en prinsen van Oranje in de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw, exhib. cat., The Hague 1998, no. 28a (ill. p.28)

Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, p.278

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.333

J.P.J. Brandhorst, K.H. Broekhuijsen-Kruijer, De verluchte handschriften en incunabelen van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek: een overzicht voorzien van een iconografische index, The Hague 1985, no. 403

Anne Korteweg, Boeken van Oranje-Nassau. De bibliotheek van de graven van Nassau en prinsen van Oranje in de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw, exhib. cat., The Hague 1998: Nassau, no. 28a

A.D. Renting & J.T.C. Renting-Kuijpers, with notes on the manuscripts by A.S. Korteweg, The Seventeenth-Century Orange-Nassau Library: the Catalogue Compiled by Anthonie Smets in 1686, the 1749 Auction Catalogue, and other Contemporary Sources. Edition with Introduction and Notes, Utrecht 1993: Nassau, no. 2230a

Online Informations and images

http://manuscripts.kb.nl/search/manuscript/extended/page/1/shelfmark/133+a+3

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman