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1039  :  Vita St Josse

Number

1039


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, 10958

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Good

Commissioners

  • Philip the Good ?
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man

Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Flanders
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1449 (c.1450)
    • Half centuries : 1400-1449
    • Decade : 1440 - 1449

Physical description

Measurements

  • 141 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 290 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 205 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations : 47
  • Number of miniatures : 47
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Jean Miélot ?

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (brown calf)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

Authors

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Translators

  • Jean Miélot

Contents

  • 1 : Vita St Josse

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. 073

Claudine Lemaire & Michèle Henry, Isabelle de Portugal. Duchesse de Bourgogne, 1397-1471, exhib. cat., Brussels 1991 [also published in Dutch: Isabella van Portugal. Hertogin van Bourgondië, 1397-1471, Brussels 1991], no. 09

Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], p.316

Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 185 (f.2)

Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.0812

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.233

Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 220

Camille Gaspar & Frédéric Lyna, Les principaux manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels 1984-1989 [reprint; 1st edition: Paris 1937-1945], no. 309

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

Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 46 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman