3668 : De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium
Number
3668
Shelf Marks
- Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Guelf A 3 Aug fol (1572)
- bought at Amsterdam in 1662
Owners before c.1550
- Philip of Cleves
- Hendrik III of Nassau ?
Commissioners
/
Country
Germany
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders
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Date
- Date details : c.1450-1475 (c.1410-50 ??)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 362 leaves
- Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
- Height of text blocks : 432 mm
- Width of text blocks : 325 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 175
- Number of miniatures : 7
- Number of historiated initials : 168
- Number of grisailles :
Emblems and Heraldry
"A jamais"
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Boccaccio
Translators
- Laurent de Premierfait
Contents
- 1 : De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Leonardo Olschki, Manuscrits français à peintures des bibliothèques d’Allemagne, Geneva 1932, pl. 50 (frontispiece)
Carla Bozzolo, Manuscrits des traductions françaises d’oeuvres de Boccace. XVe siècle (Medioevo e Umanesimo, 15), Padova 1973, p.126
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.299, 333
Wolfgang Milde, Mittelalterliche Handschriften der Herzog August Bibliothek, Frankfurt am Main 1972, no. 093-97 (f.1, 46, 127v, 169, 208)
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. 008