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1055  :  De senecute

Number

1055


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, 11127

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Good
  • Library Burgundian Dukes

Commissioners

  • Charles VI of France ?
    • Sovereign: King
    • Gender : Man

Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Flanders ? (+ France ?)
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1450
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459


Physical description

Measurements

  • 054 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 250-274 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 265 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 186 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 9
  • Number of miniatures : 5
  • Number of historiated initials : 4
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Ghent Privileges (follower)

Material

Parchment

Binding

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


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Cicero

Translators

  • Laurent de Premierfait

Contents

  • 1 : De senecute

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 021, before 1448

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. 223

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

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

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. 241

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: 3 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman