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Christine de Pizan in Bruges : Le Livre de la Cité des Dames as Het Bouc van de Stede der Vrauwen (London, British Library, Add. 20698)
- Title
- Christine de Pizan in Bruges : Le Livre de la Cité des Dames as Het Bouc van de Stede der Vrauwen (London, British Library, Add. 20698) / Orlanda S.H. Lie, Martine Meuwese, Mark Aussems, Hermina Joldersma.
- Author
- Lie, Orlanda Soei Han
- Publication
- Hilversum : Verloren, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Description
- 127 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles; 27 cm.
- Summary
- Christine de Pizan composed her famous defense of women, Le Livre de la Cité des Dames, as a response to the misogynistic writings of the time. She used the allegorical form to present the life and deeds ofvirtuous women as the metaphorical building blocks for the City ofLadies. In 1475, some forty-five years after Christine's death, Jan de Baenst, a descendant of a prominent Bruges family, ordered a translation. Het Bouc van de Stede der Vrauwen is the only Middle Dutch translation of a work by Christine de Pizan and it has survived in only one manuscript. Christine de Pizan in Bruges tells the story of this unique codex by focusing on the background of the commissioner, the codicological aspects, the highly original but unfinished illumination program, the 41 miniatures executed are reproduced here in full colour, and the translator's personal epilogue.
- Series Statement
- Middeleeuwse studies en bronnen ; CLVII
- Uniform Title
- Middeleeuwse studies en bronnen ; 157.
- Subjects
- Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431 > Livre de la cité des dames > Translations into Dutch > Manuscripts
- Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431 > Livre de la cité des dames Dutch > Illustrations > Facsimiles
- Miniature painting, Dutch > 15th century
- Manuscripts, Dutch > 15th century
- British Library Manuscript Additional 20698
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-123).
- Language (note)
- Summaries in Dutch and French.
- ISBN
- 9789087045395
- 9087045395
- OCLC
- ocn919192115
- 919192115
- SCSB-9573273
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries