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
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders
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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
/
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