2160 : Choir book (Liber missarum: 7 masses)
Number
2160
Shelf Marks
- Mechelen, Stadsarchief (Missal)
Owners before c.1550
- Maximilian of Austria
- Charles V ?
- Margaret of Austria ?
- Cardinal Granvelle
- Great Council Mechelen
Commissioners
- Maximilian of Austria ?
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Man
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Alamire
Origin
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Place
- Region : Brabant
- Towns : Mechelen
- Details : Mechelen
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Date
- Date details : 1515-1516
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1510 - 1519
Physical description
Measurements
- 113 (3+110) leaves
- Size categories of height : 625-649 mm
- Height of text blocks : 643 mm
- Width of text blocks : 432 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 15
- Number of miniatures : 15
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Gerard Horenbout / M James IV of Scotland
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
liturgical
Authors
- Pierre de la Rue
- Mathias Pipelare
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Choir book (Liber missarum: 7 masses)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Marguerite Debae, La librairie de Marguerite d’Autriche, exhib. cat., Brussels 1987 [also published in Dutch: De librije van Margareta van Oostenrijk, Brussels 1987], no. 41 (1 coul. ill.)
Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], cat. no. 04 (ill. f.1v)
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], Fig. 8.23 (f.34v)
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. 330 (f.1v)
Eugeen Schreurs (ed.), De schatkamer van Alamire: muziek en miniaturen uit Keizer Karels tijd (1500-1535), Leuven 1999, no. 23 (ill. f.1v 49v)
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.186-187, 203, 209
Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 403 (Horenbout)
Marguerite Debae, La bibliothèque de Marguerite d’Autriche. Essai de reconstitution d’après l’inventaire de 1523-1524, Leuven 1995: Margaret of Austria, p.521-523 (not in inventory)
Photo Archives
Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 11 photos