1007 : De consolatione philosophiae
Number
1007
Shelf Marks
- Brussels, KBR, 10222-23
Owners before c.1550
- Martin Francisco
- Philip the Good
- Library Burgundian Dukes
Commissioners
- Martin Francisco
- Foreigner
- Gender : Man
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean Donna
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : 1435
- Half centuries : 1400-1449
- Decade : 1430 - 1439
Physical description
Measurements
- 093 leaves
- Size categories of height : 300-324 mm
- Height of text blocks : 315 mm
- Width of text blocks : 220 mm
Illustrations
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Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (brown calf)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
philosophical, theological, ascetic
Authors
- Boetius
Translators
- Jean de Meun (attr.)
Contents
- 1 : De consolatione philosophiae
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Georges Dogaer & Marguerite Debae, La librairie de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels 1967 [also published in Dutch: De librije van Filips de Goede, Brussels 1967], no. 028
Bernard Bousmanne & Céline Van Hoorebeeck (eds.), La Librairie des ducs de Bourgogne: manuscrits conservés à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Vol. I: Textes liturgiques, ascétiques, théologiques, philosophiques et moraux, Turnhout 2000
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.245
Bernard Bousmanne & Céline Van Hoorebeeck (eds.), La Librairie des ducs de Bourgogne: manuscrits conservés à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Vol. I: Textes liturgiques, ascétiques, théologiques, philosophiques et moraux, Turnhout 2000 (list Lemaire: Dukes of Burgundy)
Photo Archives
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