ID: 700008682 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008682	Record Type: Movable Work
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Fifteen Cuttings from Histoire de Charles Martel (cuttings (information artifacts); Loyset Liédet and Pol Fruit illuminators; written 1463-1465; illuminated...;)

Note: 15 cuttings, 15 half-page miniatures, 14 large decorated initials. The four volumes of the book, with 101 of the original miniatures, belong to the Royal Library in Brussels, which acquired the core of Philip the Good's library. Fifteen leaves with half-page miniatures, removed in the 1700s, are part of the Getty Museum's collection. Over a period of three years, court scribe David Aubert wrote a four-volume work in French titled Histoire de Charles Martel. It totals four thousand pages and tells the story of Charles Martel (r. 719 to 741), Charlemagne's grandfather. Late medieval knights undoubtedly enjoyed reading the adventures of such earlier heroes, and they would have drawn inspiration from Charles's exploits. Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, commissioned this enormous manuscript for his already sumptuously endowed library of more than seven hundred volumes, one of the great libraries of the 1400s. Several years after Philip's death, the illumination of this extravagant undertaking had barely begun. In 1468 ducal accounts show payments to Pol Fruit of Bruges for painting the initials in the third volume. A year or so later, Philip's son and heir Duke Charles the Bold hired Loyset Liédet to paint the book's 123 miniatures. Court accounts record that Liédet received his final payment in 1472, showing that the entire manuscript took almost a decade to complete.

Titles:

Fifteen Cuttings from Histoire de Charles Martel (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Ms. Ludwig XIII 6 (C,U,MD,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: items

Work Types:

cuttings (partial works) [300403972] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by state>)

detached leaves [300379890]

..... (Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, gathered matter components, leaves (gathered matter))

history (visual work) [300386045]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: written 1463-1465; illuminated 1467-1472

Creator Display:

Loyset Liédet and Pol Fruit illuminators [preferred,JPGM]

illuminator Liédet, Loyset (South Netherlandish illuminator, ca. 1420-1479) [500004252]

illuminator Fruit, Pol (Flemish illuminator, active ca. 1468) [500015204]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Bruxelles [7007868] Bruxelles region (region (administrative division)), Belgium (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Other: Creation: Brugge [7007867] West-Vlaanderen (province), Flanders (region (administrative division)), Belgium (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 83.MP.149; Ms. Ludwig XIII 6

Display Materials: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and gold paint on parchment

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gold leaf [300264831]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))

	gilt paint [300343596]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, metallic paint)

	parchment (animal material) [300011851]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

Dimensions: various dimensions; largest ca. 23 x 19

Cultures:

Flemish (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Renaissance [300021140] (preferred,style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods>)

General Subject:

history and legend (preferred)

literary

Specific Subjects:

	Histoire de Charles Martel [901000630]
	.....((European narratives, European iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Charles Martel (Frankish ruler, ca. 688-741) [500354859]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Fifteen Cuttings from Histoire de Charles Martel	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Ms. Ludwig XIII 6	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP,JPGM]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)