1741 : Choir book (8 masses)
Number
1741
Shelf Marks
- Jena, ThULB, 3 (Chorbuch 3)
Owners before c.1550
- Frederick the Wise of Saxony (1518)
Commissioners
- Frederick the Wise of Saxony
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Man
Country
Germany
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Alamire (?)
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
-
Date
- Date details : c.1518-1520 (c.1510-1518 ? / before 1518 ?)
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1510 - 1519
Physical description
Measurements
- 117 (1+115+1) leaves
- Size categories of height : 550-574 mm
- Height of text blocks : 557 mm
- Width of text blocks : 370 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 4
- Number of miniatures : 4
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Prayer Books c.1500
- Gerard Horenbout / M James IV of Scotland (circle)
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
liturgical
Authors
- Josquin Desprez
- etc.
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Choir book (8 masses)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Edith Rothe, Buchmalerei aus zwölf Jahrhunderten: die schönsten illuminierten Handschriften in den Bibliotheken und Archiven der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Berlin 1966, no. 147 (ill. f.30)
Eugeen Schreurs (ed.), De schatkamer van Alamire: muziek en miniaturen uit Keizer Karels tijd (1500-1535), Leuven 1999, no. 12 (ill. f.29v-30, 43v)
Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.187, 199, 210
Irmgard Kratzsch, Schätze der Buchmalerei. Aus der Handschriftensammlung der Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Jena 2001, no. 18
Online Informations and images
Digital facsimile: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00014218