328 : De Civitate Dei (books 11-22)
Number
328
Shelf Marks
- Strasbourg, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, 523
- Sotheby's 1889-05-23, no. 11b
- Collection Hamilton
Owners before c.1550
/
Commissioners
/
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders ? / Hainaut ? / Brabant ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1455
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1450 - 1459
Physical description
Measurements
- 353 leaves
- Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
- Height of text blocks : 433 mm
- Width of text blocks : 318 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 12
- Number of miniatures : 12
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Jan de Tavernier
- Dreux Jehan / M Girart de Rousillon (circle) ?
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (C Meyer: cuir de Russie over wooden boards)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
philosophical, theological, ascetic
Authors
- Augustine
Translators
- Raoul de Presles
Contents
- 1 : De Civitate Dei (books 11-22)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
A. de Laborde, Les Manuscrits à peintures de la Cité de Dieu de Saint Augustin, Paris 1909, no. 42
Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 223, M Girart de Roussillon (influence), c.1455
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Tavernier ?
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.1390
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. 161, 213, 213-214, 228, 235
François Avril, ‘Jean Le Tavernier: un nouveau livre d’heures’, Revue de l’Art, 126 (1999), 9-22 (ill.)
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File France 18 (13 photos of 12 miniatures); Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 12 photos (Fr: f.3, 23v, 39v, 54v, 76v, 110, 150, 180, 230, 259, etc.)