Jean Miélot — c. 1456 (old style, 1457 new style); Flemish
MS. Douce 374
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Jean Miélot — c. 1456 (old style, 1457 new style); Flemish
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 374
Place of origin
Flemish
Date
c. 1456 (old style, 1457 new style)
Language
Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
6 + cxxileaves
Hands
Written by Jean Miélot.
Decoration
Important grisaille miniatures by the atelier of Jean Tavernier.
Initials.
Binding
Red velvet.
Acquisition
Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian.
Provenance
Library of the dukes of Burgundy.
Acquired by Douce at an unknown date.
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Title
Miracles of the Virgin Mary
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 374
Summary
Colophon:' Explicit le second volume des Miracles de la glorieuse Vierge Marie.'. The 74 Miracles in the present MS. are no doubt a translation by Jean Miélot from the Latin, executed either for Philip the Good, as m. Delisle thinks, or for his son Charles the Bold. There are 73 illustrations, 'les rubriches des Miracles' prefixed, and on fol. cxixv a ' balade', probably by Jean Miélot, beg. 'Pluseurs sont entreprins denuie.' The entire volume has been reproduced in facsimile for the Roxburghe Club, edited by G. F. Warner, in 1885: see also m. L. Delisle in the Bulletin historique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 1886: Waagen's Art Treasures (1854), iii. p. 81. On fol. i is a picture of Philip or Charles, duke of Burgundy (with coat of arms), kneeling before the Virgin and Child.
The volume bears the engraved bookplate, coloured, of some Carmelite abbey (?: party per fess, in the upper part an Agnus Dei with flag, contourné, passant; in the lower part argent a mount sable, over all three mullets of eight points, two and one, counterchanged: with an abbot's cap and insignia), 18th cent.
Date
written soon after A.D. 1456 in the Netherlands
Language
French
Physical facet
On parchment, with fine miniatures in camaïeu gris, binding: red velvet
Physical extent
127 Leaves
Custodial history
This MS. is a second series, corresponding with a first series, of which the original is MS. 9198 of the Fonds français in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. No. 9199 in the same collection is a copy of the present book, and all three are known to have been in the library of the dukes of Burgundy in the time of Charles the Bold (1467-77).
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Collection contents
Miracles of the Virgin Mary
