Den Haag, KB, 128 C 4

Lambert of St. Omer, Le livre fleurissant en fleurs. Prose translation of the Liber Floridus

Enghien; 1512

Beschrijving

125 pen drawings

Herkomst

Made for Philip of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein (d. 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

Paper, ff. 476, 375x270 (265x220/175) mm, 2 columns, 30-41 lines, littera textualis. French. 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 people of the earth

3. Six ages of the world

4. Six ages of the world until Godefroy of Bouillon

5. Solomon enthroned

6. Scheme of world: four elements, four seasons, twel...

7. Gabriel and Mary with the Christ-child

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

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

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

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

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

13. The Lamb and the book with the seven seals surroun...

14. First seal: the hand of God(?) crowning the man on...

15. Second seal: the hand of God(?) giving power to th...

16. Third seal: the man on the black horse with a pair...

17. Fourth seal: Death as devilish being on the pale g...

18. The four winds (as human heads) are restrained by ...

19. The angel with the golden censer filling it with t...

20. The first angel sounds: hail and fire mixed with b...

21. The second angel sounds: the water is changed into...

22. The third angel sounds: a great burning star (Worm...

23. The fourth angel sounds: the sun, the moon and the...

24. The fifth angel sounds: the falling star opens up ...

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

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

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

28. St. John receives the rule to measure the temple; ...

29. The two witnesses of God are slain by the beast an...

30. The seventh angel sounds: Christ as the judge of t...

31. The dragon with the seven heads and the Woman; The...

32. St. Michael and his angels fighting against the dr...

33. When the dragon saw that he was cast unto the eart...

34. The two-horned beast out of the earth and the beas...

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

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

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

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

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

40. Map of the world and the winds