3434 : De Civitate Dei (books 1-22)
Number
3434
Shelf Marks
- Utrecht, UB, 42
- Th v Bockhoven (18th c.)
Owners before c.1550
- Wolfert van Borssele
Commissioners
- Wolfert van Borssele (d.1487)
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
Netherlands
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Ghent ?
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Date
- Date details : 1470-1474 (1465-1474 ? / c. 1465 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 346 (356?) leaves
- Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
- Height of text blocks : 440 mm
- Width of text blocks : 330 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 23
- Number of miniatures : 2
- Number of historiated initials : 21
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Bruges Genealogia Deorum (frontispice)
- M Chroniques d'Angleterre (initials)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (black basil over wooden boards)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
philosophical, theological, ascetic
Authors
- Augustine
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : De Civitate Dei (books 1-22)
Languages
- Latin
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.0589
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.218 (M Bruges Genealogia Deorum)
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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.262-264
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Koert van der Horst, Illuminated and Decorated Medieval Manuscripts in the University Library, Utrecht. An Illustrated Catalogue, Maarssen 1989, no. 142 (ill. 614-636; klill. T, U)
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. 09
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