Den Haag, KB, 72 A 23

Lambert of St. Omer, Liber Floridus

Lille and Ninove; 1460

Beschrijving

98 coloured drawings

Herkomst

Made for Pierre de Goux et de Wedergraete (d. 1471). Philip of Cleves (1456-1528); 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, at The Hague; taken in 1795 to Paris by the French occupying forces and restituted in 1816 to the KB

Codicologie

Vellum, ff. 225, 408x286 (304x215) mm, 2 columns, 40 lines, littera textualis. Latin. Binding: 18th-century brown leather, gilt, with coat of arms of Stadtholder William V

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1. Canontable

2. Map of the world: the inhabitants of Asia, Africa ...

3. Six ages of the world

4. The ages of the world until Godefroy of Bouillon

5. The Evangelist St. John on Patmos; Christ between ...

6. Angels over the towers of the churches of Ephesus,...

7. Angels over the towers of the churches of Thyatira...

8. Throne of God: Christ enthroned, surrounded by the...

9. Throne of God: Christ enthroned, surrounded by twe...

10. The sixth angel sounds: the four angels bound in t...

11. Sixth trumpet: an army of horsemen who are breathi...

12. St. John and the angel with the little open book i...

13. St. John the Evangelist receives the ruler to meas...

14. Adoration of the Lamb on Mount Sion by the 144-tho...

15. Two angels proclaiming the day of judgement; the S...

16. Six angels with the six vials, bringing disasters ...

17. Three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the...

18. The seventh angel with his vial, bringing disaster...

19. Map of the world and the winds

20. The five zones of the earth of Macrobius

21. The course of the sun

22. The phases of the moon, the winds, the elements an...

23. Apuleius' sphere of life and death

24. The Minotaur in the labyrinth

25. Six days of Creation and God rests on the seventh ...

26. Six ages of the man

27. Lily

28. Palmtree as symbol of the Church

29. Lion

30. Pig (Boar?)

31. Griffin

32. Dragon

33. Crocodile

34. Crocodile

35. The devil riding Behemoth

36. Antichrist sitting on Leviathan

37. Heavenly Jerusalem

38. Christ/Agnus Dei among the four elements; year; th...

39. Table with the connection between sun, moon and ea...

40. Scheme of the world, planets, sun, moon and zodiac