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Légende de la Vie de Sainte Catherine de Sienne

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Brugge, Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge, Ms. 767

Georgina Babinszki, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2024 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Légende de la Vie de Sainte Catherine de Sienne
Material Parchment

Original Condition

Page Height 279 mm
Page Width 198 mm
Height of Written Area 44 mm
Width of Written Area 111 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 111 mm
Number of Lines 6
Line Height 7 mm
Ruling Frame ruling, framing text block, miniature and border.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Persons: Master of Margaret of York (f. 1468-1477) or workshop
Description

Fol. [1]v:

Page layout divided in three parts, each one ruled using red ink: text block, miniature, full floral border.

Text block of 6 lines, with an initial and a versal. Ornamental initial against gold leaf background; reserved lines in the interior of the letter form; foliation in the interior of the letter form. Gold leaf versal including blue, on light pink background with reserved lines.

Column-wide miniature depicting the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine. Miniature in guilded frame representing a group of saints (Christ with orb, St Catherine receiving a ring from Christ, Mary in blue gown, David with harp, a Dominican monk and two other saints) standing on a lawn against a brick wall, an open gate on the right. Towers, walls and bridge over a stream, green hills extend in the distance.

Floral spray border on four margins. Acanthus and stylized roses and other plants.

Fol. [1]r:

Red cadel within rubrics. Line filler band in light pink and blue with interior reserved lines and ovals made of golden leaves.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Raymund of Capua (1330 - 1399)
    • Text Language Middle French
    • Title Légende de la Vie de Sainte Catherine de Sienne
    • Content Description

      The leaf contains a fragment from an anonymous French translation of the Legenda Maior, the biography of Catharine of Sienna (1347-1380) by her confessor, Raymund of Capua (1330 - 1399).

History

Origin

Leaf from an illuminated manuscript owned by Louis of Bruges, and two French kings, Louis XII and François I. The leaf belongs to the manuscript that is now Paris, BnF, ms. fr. 1048.

Host Volume

Title Raymond de Capoue, Légende de sainte Catherine de Sienne, Middle French translation
Date of Origin/Publication c. 1470-1480
Place of Origin/Publication Bruges
Shelfmark Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. fr. 1048
Remarks

Eleven leaves with miniatures were removed from the manuscript at some undetermined point before the manuscript was foliated in the 19th century. This fragment was originally positioned between fol. 35 and fol. 36 (modern foliation). Two further illuminated leaves are to be found in Hanover NH, Dartmouth College, Rauner Special Collections Library, Mss. 470940.

Bibliography

  • Kren, Thomas, and Scott McKendrick, eds., Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe (Los Angeles / London: The J. Paul Getty Museum / Royal Academy of Arts, 2003), p. 217-18
     https://books.google.be/books?id=tyA2AgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
  • Schandel, Pascal, and Ilona Hans-Collas, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux. 1: Manuscrits de Louis de Bruges., Manuscrits enluminés de la Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2009), p. 144-45
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