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696  :  De amicitia

Number

696


Shelf Marks

  • Baltimore, WAG, W 312
  • Rogers
  • Sotheby's 1897-07-30, no. 430
  • Marsac
  • Silva
  • De Brême
  • Gaignat

Owners before c.1550

/

Commissioners

/

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

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


Physical description

Measurements

  • 097 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 287 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 197 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 1
  • Number of miniatures : 1
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Chattering Hands

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c.
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Cicero

Translators

  • Laurent de Premierfait

Contents

  • 1 : De amicitia

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

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. 02)

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. 268 (ill. 506: f.1)

Online Informations and images

http://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.312/browse

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman