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3647  :  Chroniques des comtes de Flandre (until 1348)

Number

3647


Shelf Marks

  • Wells-next-the-Sea, Holkham Hall, Earl of Leicester, 659

Owners before c.1550

  • Margaret of York

Commissioners

  • Mary of Burgundy, as gift for Margaret of York
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Woman

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Private

Scribe

David Aubert ?

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent ?
  • Date
    • Date details : 1477
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 293 ( in 2 vls) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 410 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 295 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 22
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles : 22
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Maximilian (early work)
  • M Moral Treatises

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (red morocco, Jones of Liverpool)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Chroniques des comtes de Flandre (until 1348)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

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G.I. Lieftinck, Boekverluchters uit de omgeving van Maria van Bourgondie ca. 1475 - ca. 1485 (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Klasse der Letteren, 66), 2 vols., Brussels 1969, p.154 (in index as Holkham Hall, 657)

Thomas Kren, ‘Flemish Manuscript Illumination 1475-1550’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts. Treasures from the British Library, New York-Malibu-London 1983, 1-86, Fig. 03c (f.226), p.22 (n.11)

Walter Prevenier & Wim Blockmans, De Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1982 [also published in English and French: The Burgundian Netherlands, Cambridge 1986; Les Pays-Bas bourguignons, Antwerp 1982], ill. 184

Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule II (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 7), Vienna 1990, fig. 102 (p.101)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Mary of Burgundy

Richard E.F. Straub, David Aubert, escripvain et clerc (Faux titre. Etudes de langue et littérature françaises, 96), Amsterdam-Atlanta 1995, Section 2.2.4.09

Alain Arnould & Jean Michel Massing, Splendours of Flanders. Late Medieval Art in Cambridge Collections, Cambridge 1993, no. 48 (ill. f.121v)

Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], p. 148

Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], Fig. 7.46 (f.121v)

Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 099 (f.78v), p.257

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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, no. 085

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.191, 199

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. 041

Alain Arnould & Jean Michel Massing, Splendours of Flanders. Late Medieval Art in Cambridge Collections, Cambridge 1993

Léon Dorez, Les manuscrits à peintures de la bibliothèque de Lord Leicester à Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Choix de miniatures et de reliures, publiés sous les auspices de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres et de la Société des Bibliophiles François, Paris 1908, p. 89

Camille Gaspar & Frédéric Lyna, Les principaux manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels 1984-1989 [reprint; 1st edition: Paris 1937-1945], vol. III, p. 176

W. O. Hassell, The Holkham Library : illuminations and illustrations in the manuscript library of the Earl of Leicester, Oxford 1970: 14 ill. (f. 78, 86v, 95, 121v, 137, 156v, 195, 207, 221, etc.)

Thomas Kren (ed.), Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Visions of Tondal. Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections (June 21-24, 1990), Los Angeles 1992: Margaret, no. 2-11

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman