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032-002029097

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Title:

Dialogue de la duchesse de Bourgogne à Jésus Christ (ff. 2-140)

Scope & Content:

Content:

The Dialogue de la duchesse de Bourgogne à Jésus Christ, a treatise on contemplation, was commissioned by Margaret of York to her almoner, Nicolas Finet in c. 1468.

ff. 2r-140v: Rubric: 'Le dialogue de la duchesse de Bourgogne a Ihesus Christ'. Beginning: 'Comme la vye humaine est divisee en deux membres qui sont la vie active et contemplative'. Ending: 'en ung vray Dieu tout puissant souverain et a beneyz de toutes creatures par tout les siecles des siecles. Amen. Explicit le dialogue de Ihesu Christ a la duchesse de Bourgogne'.

Decoration:

Decorated by the follower of Dreux Jean.

1 full-page miniature of Margaret of York before the resurrected Christ, in colours and gold with a full border, at the beginning of the text (f. 1v). 1 illuminated initial with the arms of Margaret of York in colours and gold (f. 2). Initials in colours and gold with border decoration. 'Champ' initials in gold on blue and rose grounds.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

A parchment codex, 142 folios.

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Languages:

French, Middle

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1465

End Date:

1475

Date Range:

Between 1468 and 1477

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 200 x 140 (105 x 70) mm.

Layout: long lines.

Foliation: ff. 142 (+ 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf at the beginning; ff. 141 and 142 are medieval parchment flyleaves).

Collation: 18 quires: i¹⁰ (ff. 1-10), ii⁸(ff. 11-18), iii⁶ (ff. 19-24), iv-vii⁸ (ff. 25-56), viii⁹(ff. 57-65), ix-xii⁸ (ff. 66-97), xiii⁶(ff. 98-103), xiv⁶ (ff. 104-109), xv-vii⁸ (ff. 102-133), xviii⁹ (ff. 134-142; ninth leaf inserted, f. 142).

Script: Gothic cursive (bastarda).

Binding: Post-1600. Brabant parchment binding over pasteboard, gold-tooled with central stamp of the Virgin and Child between stars, inscribed 'Santa Maria Ora Pro Nobis', mid-17th century; gilt edges. Rebacked with gilt leather.

Custodial History:

Origin: Netherlands, S. (Brussels).

Provenance:

Margaret of York (b. 1446, d. 1503), duchess of Burgundy between 1468 and 1477: composed at her request by her almoner Nicolas Finet; her arms as the duchess of Burgundy (ff. 1v, 2) and motto 'Ben en aviegne'; initials CM for Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy (d. 1477), Margaret's husband, and Margaret of York (ff. 1v, 11v, 49, 52, 56v, 67, 79v, 90, 109v, 125).

Jeanne de Hallewin (or Halewyn) (d. 1529), lady of Wassenaer, wife of Jan I van Wassenaer, burgrave of Leiden (d. 1494/95) a lady-in-waiting to Margaret of York: given to her by the Duchess in 1502: autograph inscription by Margaret of York 'margarete dyork; the word 'dyork' erased and replaced with 'de angleterre', 'au done a jane de halevyn dame vessenar et dame de la planc se lyvre lan XV II (?) ' (f. 140v); and an inscription reading 'Z (or 3?). O. W. 2 (?) / Wassenaars' (f. 142v).

The Brabant parchment binding is similar to that of Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS VH 25.432, a collection of works of Claude Chapuisot printed in Brussels in 1630 and owned by the Jesuit College in Leuven from 1648, 17th century (see Exposition de reliures, II: Du XVII siècle a la fin du XIXe (Brussels: Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, 1931), no. 112).

John Cochran, London bookseller; included in his sales catalogue of 1829, no. 647, with the information that the manuscript was acquired from St Petersburg; purchased by the British Museum in 1830 from him: inscription on f. [i].

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Publications:

John Cochran, A Catalogue of Manuscripts in Different Languages on Theology, English and Foreign History, Heraldry, Philosophy, Poetry, Romances, The Fine Arts (including Calligraphy and some Splendid Persian Drawings), Sports, Alchemy, Astrology, Divination etc., of Various Dates, from Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century, many of them upon Vellum and Adorned with Splendid Illuminations (London: John Cochran, 1829), no 647.

Otto Pächt, The Master of Mary of Burgundy (London: Faber and Faber, 1948), p. 13.

Ervin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character, 2 vols (Cambridge, Mass., 1953), I, p. 463, n. 4.

Georges Dogaer, 'Margareta van York, bibliofiele', Handelingenvan de Koninklijke Kring voor Oudheidkunde, Letteren en Kinst van Mechelen, 79 (1975), 99-111 (p. 110).

William Caxton: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Quincentenary of the Introduction of Printing into England (London: British Library), no. 9 [exhibition catalogue].

Charles J. Armstrong, 'L'Echange culturel entre les cours d'Angleterre et de Bourgogne à l'époque de Charles le Téméraire', in Cinq-centième Anniversaire de la bataille de Nancy, 1477: Actes du colloque organisé par L'Institut de Recherche régionale en Sciences sociales, humaines et économiques de l'Université de Nancy II (Nancy, 1979), pp. 35-49 (p. 41).

Lotte Hellinga, 'Caxton and the Bibliophiles', in Eleventh International Congress of Bibliophiles, Brussels: Communications, ed. by Paul Culot and Eugène Rouir (Brussels, 1981), pp. 11-38 (pp. 21, n. 13, 24, n. 16).

Franck O. Büttner, Imitatio Pietatis: Motive der christlichen Ikonographie als Modelle zur Verähnlichung (Berlin: Mann, 1983), pp. 11, 120, 216-17.

Muriel Hughes, 'The Library of Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy', The Private Library, ser. 3, 7 (1984), 53-78 (pp. 62, 64, no. 13).

Kurtis A. Barstow, 'The Library of Margaret of York and some Related Works', in Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Vision of Tondal: Papers delivered at a symposium organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum, in collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections, June 21-24, 1990, ed. by Thomas Kren (Malibu: Getty Museum 1992), pp. 257-62 (p. 258).

Jeffrey Chips Smith, 'Margaret of York and the Burgundian Portrait Tradition', in Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Vision of Tondal: Papers delivered at a symposium organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum, in collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections, June 21-24, 1990, ed. by Thomas Kren (Malibu: Getty Museum 1992), pp. 47-56 (p. 50).

Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Illumination in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997), p. 192.

Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III’s Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince (Stroud, Gloucestershire, Sutton, 1997), p. 39.

Maurits Smeyers, Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century (Leuven: Brepols, 1999), pl. 29 on p. 376.

Anne Hagopian Van Buren, ‘Dreux Jehan and the Grandes Heures of Philip the Bold’ in ’Als Ich Can’: Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, ed. by Bert Cardon and others, 2 vols (Paris: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2002), pp. 1377-414 (p. 1403).

Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance: the Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe (2003), [exhibition catalogue], no. 51, pp. 215-16.

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1550 (London: British Library, 2003), pls 21-22.

Andrea G. Pearson, 'Gendered Subject, Gendered Spectator: Mary Magdalene in the Gaze of Margaret of York', Gesta, 44 (2005), 47-66.

Women of Distinction: Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria, ed. by Dagmar Eichberger (Leuven: Davidsfonds, 2005), no. 83 [exhibition catalogue].

Charles le Téméraire: Faste et Déclin de la Cour de Bourgogne, ed. by Susan Marti, Till-Holger Borchert, and Gabriele Keck (Brussels: Fonds Mercator, 2008), no. 72. [exhibition catalogue].

Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 35, pp. 168, 220, 418, 420 [exhibition catalogue].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Finet, Nicolas, almoner to the Duchess of Burgundy, d c 1471