3248 : Decamerone
Number
3248
Shelf Marks
- Den Haag, KB, 133 A 5
- Stadholders
Owners before c.1550
- Philip of Cleves
- Hendrik III of Nassau
Commissioners
/
Country
Netherlands
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1480-1485 (c.1485 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 440 leaves
- Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
- Height of text blocks : 457 mm
- Width of text blocks : 334 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 5 miniatures have disappeared
- Total number of illustrations : 7
- Number of miniatures : 7
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Bruges 1482 (and follower ?)
- M Chattering Hands
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c.
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
literary
Authors
- Boccaccio
Translators
- Laurent de Premierfait
Contents
- 1 : Decamerone
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Alexander Willem Byvanck, Les pricipaux manuscripts à peintures de la Bibliothèque Royale des Pays-Bas et du Musée Meermanno Westreenianum à La Haye (Société française de reproductions de manuscrits a` peintures), Paris 1924, no. 25 (ill. 23: f.3v)
Carla Bozzolo, Manuscrits des traductions françaises d’oeuvres de Boccace. XVe siècle (Medioevo e Umanesimo, 15), Padova 1973, p.162
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Brugge 1482
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. 48 (ill. p.42)
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.200
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.65, 581 (M Chattering Hands, no. 16)
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. 346
Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 258
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. 423
Anne Korteweg, ‘La bibliothèque de Philippe de Clèves: inventaire et manuscrits parvenus jusqu’à nous’, Jelle Haemers, Céline Van Hoorebeeck, Hanno Wijsman (eds.), Entre la ville, la noblesse et l’état. Philippe de Clèves (1456-1528), homme politique et bibliophile (Burgundica, 13), Turnhout 2007, 183-221: Philip of Cleves, no. 010
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. 48
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. 1319
Arie de Fouw, Philips van Kleef: een bijdrage tot de kennis van zijn leven en karakter, Groningen 1937: Philip of Cleves, no. 25
Online Informations and images
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