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695  :  Tresor de sapience / Histoire universelle

Number

695


Shelf Marks

  • Baltimore, WAG, W 307
  • Olschki
  • Duc de la Vallière

Owners before c.1550

  • Adolphe of Burgundy (1489-1540, grandson Anthony of Burgundy)

Commissioners

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Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470-1480 (c.1460 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

  • 361 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 455 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 340 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 6 large miniatures, 36 small miniatures, 56 hist historiated initials
  • Total number of illustrations : 98
  • Number of miniatures : 42
  • Number of historiated initials : 56
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

overpainted arms

Miniaturists

  • Loyset Liédet
  • M Vraie chronique dEscoce (initials)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : c.1770 (red/brown morocco, France)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Tresor de sapience / Histoire universelle

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Edmund Bowles, Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages / La pratique musicale au moyen âge, Geneva 1983, no. 037 (f.167v)

Bernard Bousmanne, “Item a Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur”: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l’enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire, Turnhout 1997, (Vrelant Style)

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.276

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. 256

Lilian M.C. Randall, assisted by Judith H. Oliver, Christopher Clarkson & Claudia Mark, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. III: Belgium, 1250-1530, 2 vols., Baltimore-London 1997, no. 273 (ill. XXXVII, 512-514: f.26, 87, 100v, 192)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman