Research Catalog

Title

The Library of the Dukes of Burgundy / edited by Bernard Bousmanne & Elena Savini ; with contributions from Bernard Bousmanne, Jessica Pranger, Olivier Delsaux [and 7 others].

Publication

• London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2020.
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Bousmanne, Bernard
• Savini, Elena
• Pranger, Jessica
• Delsaux, Olivier

Description

205 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

Formed under Philip the Bold and passed down to his successors, John the Fearless and Philip the Good, the Library of the Dukes of Burgundy comprised no less than nine hundred manuscripts copied and illuminated by the greatest artists of the Middle Ages by the time of Charles the Bold. This extraordinary and unique library included essential texts of medieval literature such as the works of Christine de Pizan, the Roman de la Rose by Jean de Meung and Guillaume de Lorris, the History of Charles Martel, as well as the Ethics and Politics of Aristotle. It was one of the largest collections of books of its time alongside those of the King of France Charles V, the Duke of Berry, the Medici and the papacy. The two hundred and eighty manuscripts of the collection preserved today in the Royal Library of Belgium cover all fields of medieval thought: literature, ancient history, sciences, morals, religion philosophy, but also law, poetry and chivalric romance. The oldest of these works date back to the fourteenth century while the most recent date from the end of the feudal period. Many of them were transcribed at the express request of the dukes by renowned copyists such as Jean Miélot, Jean Wauquelin, and David Aubert. Many of these codices are absolute masterpieces of the French or Flemish miniature and have been illuminated by Willem Vrelant, Loyset Liédet, Jean le Tavernier, Philippe de Mazerolles, Simon Marmion, and Liévin Van Lathem, miniaturists whose fame and talent competed with Flemish Primitives such as Jan Van Eyck, Rogier Van der Weyden or Hans Memling. In the unanimous opinion of researchers, manuscripts that belong to the collection such as the Chronicles of Hainault by Jacques de Guise, the Hours of the Duke of Berry, the Psalter of Peterborough or the Cronic and Conquest of Charlemagne, are among the fifty most prestigious manuscripts in the world.

Subject

• Philip, Duke of Burgundy, 1342-1404
• Philip, Duke of Burgundy, 1396-1467
• John, Duke of Burgundy, 1371-1419
• Charles, Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
• Bibliothèque royale de Belgique > Manuscripts
• Bibliothèque royale de Belgique > History
• Bibliothèque royale de Belgique

Genre/Form

• History.
• Manuscripts.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: The Library of the Dukes of Burgundy and the World Around It / Bernard Bousmanne -- Flemish Illuminators in the Burgundian Library / Dominique Vanwijnsberghe -- Consensus and Confrontation: the Low Countries in the Burgundian Period (1384-1506) / Jelle Haemers -- French Literature at the Court of the Dukes of Burgundy, from Philip the Bold to Charles the Bold / Olivier Delsaux -- The care and conservation of the manuscripts of the Dukes of Burgundy today / Tatiana Gersten -- List of illustrations and photography credits -- The Catalogue -- Le Dit des trois morts et des trois vifs (ms 10749-50) -- Franciscus Cremensis, Gratulatio ad illustrissimum ac invictissimum principem Philippum (ms 15860) -- Les Voeux du faisan (ms IV 1103) -- Account book of income and expenditure kept by Pieter Lanchals (ms IV 1325) -- Aristotle, Ethics. French translation by Nicole Oresme (ms 9505-06) -- Gossuin de Metz, L'lmage du Monde (ms IV 9822) -- Collection of devotional and moral texts (ms 9030-37) -- Jacques de Bregilles' Book of Hours (ms IV 1309) -- Jean de Wavrin, Gerard de Nevers (ms 9631) -- Henri de Ferrieres, Les Livres du roy Modus et de la royne Ratio (ms 10218-19) -- Xenophon, Hiero or The Tyrants. French translation by Charles Soillot (ms IV 1264) -- Jean Wauquelin, Histoire de la Belle Helene de Constantinople (ms 9967) -- Jean de Wavrin, Histoire des seigneurs de Gavre (ms 10238) -- Book of Hours of Duke John of Berry (Brussels Book of Hours) (ms 11060-61) -- Peterborough Psalter (ms 9961-62) -- St Anselm of Canterbury, Oratlones ad sanctam virginem Marlam. French translation (ms 11052) -- St Augustine, De Civitate Dei (ms 9015) -- Prayer book [said to have belonged to Philip the Bold] (ms 10392) -- Benois seront les misericordieux (ms 9296) -- David Aubert, Conquestes et croniques de Charlemaine (ms 9066-68) -- Guillaume Adam, Directorium ad passagium faciendum. French translation by Jean Mielot (ms 9095) -- Jean Mansel, Fleur des histoires (ms 9231-32) -- Laurent du Bois, Somme le Roi (ms 11041) -- Honore Bovet, Arbre des batailles (ms 9079) -- Juan Rodriguez de la Camara, Le Triomphe des dames (ms 10778) -- Traite de I'oraison dominicale (ms 9092) -- Traite sur la salutation angelique (ms 9270) -- Guillaume Filastre, Histoire de la Toison d'Or(ms9028) -- Martin Le Franc, L'Estrifde Fortune et Vertu (ms 9510) -- Le Vleil Rentier d'Audenarde (ms 1175) -- Prayer book [said to have belonged to Philip the Bold] (ms 11035-37) -- Martin Le Franc, Le Champion des dames (ms 9466) -- Breviary [said to belong to Philip the Good] (ms 9026 and ms 9511) -- Christine de Pizan, Livre de la mutacion de Fortune (ms 9508) -- Nicolas Oresme, Politiques et Economiques d'Anstote (ms 11201-02) -- Bonum universale de apibus (ms 9507) -- David Aubert, Histoire de Charles Martel (ms 7) -- Leonardo Bruni d'Arezzo, La premiere guerre punique (ms 10777) -- Guillaume de Digulleville, Pelerinages (ms 10176-78) -- Chroniques de Hainaut. Translation and compilation by Jean Wauquelin (ms 9242-44) -- Pontifical of Sens Cathedral (ms 9215) -- Lucian of Samosata, Debat d'honneur. French translation by Jean Mielot (ms 9278-80) -- Ludolph of Saxony, Vita Christi. French adaptation (ms IV 106) -- Gerard van Vliederhoven, Cordiale de quattuor novissimis. French adaptation (ms 11129) -- Missal and breviary belonging to Louis of Male (ms 9217 and ms 9427) -- Rene of Anjou, Le Mortifiement de Vaine Plaisance (ins 10308) -- Grandes chroniques de France (ms 2-5) -- Bible (ms 9157) -- Raoul Lefevre, Le Recueil des histories de Troie (ms 9261) -- The Tavernier Hours (ms IV 1290) -- Marino Sanudo, Liber secretum fidelium Crucis (ms 9347-48 and ms 9404-05) -- Le Miroir de la salvation humaine. French translation by Jean Mielot (ms 9249-50) -- Christine de Pizan, L'Epistre d'Othea and other treatises (ms 9559-64) -- Christine de Pizan, Epitre Othea. Reworking by Jean Mielot (ms 9392) -- History Bible (ms 9018-19 and ms 9020-21).

Call Number

JFF 21-389

ISBN

• 9781912554249
• 1912554240

OCLC

1138591444

Title

The Library of the Dukes of Burgundy / edited by Bernard Bousmanne & Elena Savini ; with contributions from Bernard Bousmanne, Jessica Pranger, Olivier Delsaux [and 7 others].

Publisher

London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Bousmanne, Bernard, editor.

Savini, Elena, editor.

Pranger, Jessica, contributor.

Delsaux, Olivier, contributor.

Research Call Number

JFF 21-389