Den Haag, KB, 72 A 22

Augustine, La Cité de Dieu (Book 1-10)

Paris, Orosius Master a.o. (illuminator); c. 1400-1410

Beschrijving

1 two-column miniature (180x180 mm) with border decoration; 10 column miniatures ( mm) with border decoration; 4 illustration in the margin (coat of arms, emblems and devise); decorated initials with border decoration 1r, 6r, 33v, 76v, 141r, etc.)

Herkomst

Acquired by Philip of Cleves (d. 1528) before 1492 (coat of arms with label); purchased in 1531 from his estate by Henri III, Count of Nassau (d. 1538); by inheritance to the Princes of Orange-Nassau, the later Stadtholders; taken in 1795 to Paris by the French occupying forces and restituted in 1816 to the KB

Codicologie

Vellum, ff. 339, 423x330 (259x179) mm, 2 columns, 48 lines, littera textualis. French. Binding: 18th-century brown leather, gilt, with coat of arms of Stadtholder William V

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1. Raoul de Presles presents his translation to Charl...

2. God with St. Augustine, St. Gregory the Great, St....

3. Rape of the Sabine women

4. Mithridates VI, king of Pontus, has Romans beheade...

5. St. Augustine discussing the nature of the gods wi...

6. Fortune turning her wheel

7. Two philosophers discussing idols

8. The worship of Janus

9. Philosophy in discussion with a philosopher

10. Veneration of Theology

11. The Neo-Platonist philosopher Porphyrius vacillati...