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1054  :  Miroir de l'ame

Number

1054


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, 11123

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Good

Commissioners

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

Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Jean Miélot (?)

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Artois
    • Details : Artois ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1451-1465 (after 1451)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459

Physical description

Measurements

  • 079 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 277 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 205 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 1
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings : 1

Miniaturists

  • Jean Miélot

Material

Parchment

Binding

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


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • Jacob van Gruytrode

Translators

  • Jean Miélot

Contents

  • 1 : Miroir de l'ame

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. 058 (ill. 44: f.2)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Miélot

Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996

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

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

Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, p.245

Pascal Schandel & Ilona Hans-Collas, with the collaboration of Hanno Wijsman and scientific advice by François Avril, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux, Vol. I: Louis de Bruges, Paris-Leuven 2009, p.85, 292

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.180, 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. 290

Thomas Falmagne & Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), Corpus Catalogorum Belgii. The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries. Volume V: Ducs de Bourgogne, Brussels (forthcoming in 2010): Dukes of Burgundy

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: 5 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman