IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169737 accession number: MS 165 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 66 fols., 308 x 220 (190 x 131) mm, 35 long lines, ruled in red ink, running headers (fols. 6r – 29r), catchwords. BINDING: Sixteenth century, red velvet over wooden boards, sewn on 5 supports, 5 brass bosses on each cover, two metal clasps on lower cover, two metal catchplates on upper cover, horn covered fenestra on upper cover with the titles of the two treatises written on parchment piece. CONTENTS: fols. 5r – 29r Guillebert or Hugues de Lannoy, L’instruction d’un jeune Prince with capitula and Prologue; fols. 30r – 64r René d’Anjou, Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance. DECORATION: Half-page framed miniature with full acanthus and floral border on plain parchment ground including gold monogram and arms of the Luxembourg family: fol. 10v Author presenting book to enthroned patron Nine half-page framed miniatures: fol. 31r Soul personified as winged, naked woman, holding Heart, and sitting beside stream; fol. 34v Soul conversing with Crainte and Contrition; fol. 41r Soul showing Heart to Crainte and Contrition; fol. 46r lady in a cart drawn by two horses, one blindfolded; fol. 48v women carrying sacks of grain across bridge to a watermill; fol. 51v knight attacking fortress; fol. 54v Soul offering Heart to Crainte, Contrition looking on; fol. 59v Crainte, Foy, Vraye Amour and Grace nailing Heart to cross; fol. 61v Soul kneeling and holding cross with Heart on it, Crainte and Contricion attending. ORNAMENTATION: fols. 5r – 29r: Gold initials [4 – 6 ll.] with acanthus ornament and infill on blue and pink grounds, and partial acanthus and floral borders containing gold monogram (fols. 6r, 11r, 13v, 15r, 16v, 18r, 20r, 22v); identical gold initials [2 ll.] on blue and pink grounds; capitals highlighted in yellow. fols. 30r – 64r: Gold initials [4 ll.] of the same type as on fols. 5r – 29r, but by different hand and of inferior quality (fols. 30r, 31r, 34v, 41r, 46r, 48v, 49v, 51v, 54v, 59v, 61v); identical gold initials [2 ll.] and plain gold initials [2 ll.] on blue and pink white-patterned grounds; capitals highlighted in yellow. title: MS 165_f61v_201904_kly25_dc1.jpg NOTES ----- type: history note value: Pierre de Luxembourg (c.1440 – 1482) (arms on fol. 10v and gold monogram in first part of manuscript); 16th and 17th century inscriptions inside upper cover and fol. 1r: ‘Froment 1558’, ‘SANS VOUS NE PUIS BOVRGNE’, note of death of Madame de Froment, 1605; Hermann de Bourgougne (1570 – 1626), Count of Falais-sur-Méhaigne (ownership inscription and anagram headed in the same hand ‘Fallaix 1597 25 Aprilis’ inside upper cover, family notes for period 1593 – 1607 on fols. 4r – 4v); Richard, seventh viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745 – 1816), acquired in 1814; his bequest, 1816. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Viscount Fitzwilliam STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169737 PEOPLE ------------------- de Bourgougne, Herman, Count of Falais-sur-Méh de Luxembourg, Pierre TECHNIQUES ---------- ruling TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1470 - 1475 creation date earliest: 1470 creation date latest: 1475 culture: 15th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Marmion, Simon maker: Liédet, Loyset maker: de Lannoy, Guillebert or Hugues maker: René d’Anjou EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion. title: The Splendours of Flanders title: The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Le Mortifiement de vaine plaisance Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum: An Exhibition to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Death of the Founder, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion Simon Marmion Re-Considered Denkbeelden van een vliesridder de Instruction d'un jeune prince van Guillebert van Lannoy The Case of Simon Marmion: Attributions and Documents The Splendours of Flanders L'Art de la miniature flamande du VIIIe au XVIe siècle Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West Antoine de la Sable la fabrique de l'oeuvre et de l'ecrivain (suivi l'edition critique du Traite des anciens et nouveaux tournois) Les manuscrits de Pierre de Luxembourg (ca 1440-1482) et les bibliothèques nobiliaires dans les Pays-Bas bourguignons de la deuxième miotié du XVe siècle A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. 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