604 : De amicitia De senecute De officiis
Number
604
Shelf Marks
- Antwerpen, Museum Plantijn-Moretus, M 15.7 (Denucé 181; anc 68)
- Balthasar II Moretus (inventory of 1650, no. 61)
Owners before c.1550
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Commissioners
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Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1470-1480
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 176 (1+174+1) leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 370 mm
- Width of text blocks : 255 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 1 large, 2 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 3
- Number of miniatures : 3
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Chattering Hands
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Cicero
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : De amicitia
- 2 : De senecute
- 3 : De officiis
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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. 048-49: f.1, 116 (p.66-67)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Loyset Liédet (as M 14.1)
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.1654
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.77
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.579 (M Chattering Hands, no. 01)
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. 283
Lieve Watteeuw & Catherine Reynolds, Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Leuven (Peeters), 2013, no. 40
Jean Denuce´, Catalogue des manuscrits / Catalogus der handschriften, Antwerp 1927, p. 140-141