890 : Choir book (2 masses, 2 motets, office)
Number
890
Shelf Marks
- Brussels, KBR, 215-16
Owners before c.1550
- Charles de Clerc, lord of Bouvekerke
Commissioners
- Charles de Clerc, lord of Bouvekerke
- Court functionary
- Gender : Man
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Alamire (?)
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Brabant
- Towns : Mechelen
- Details : Mechelen
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Date
- Date details : c.1516 (1503-1518)
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1510 - 1519
Physical description
Measurements
- 049 leaves
- Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
- Height of text blocks : 430 mm
- Width of text blocks : 320 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 1
- Number of miniatures : 1
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern (paste board)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
liturgical
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Choir book (2 masses, 2 motets, office)
Languages
- (no data)
Bibliography
Pieter Andriessen, Bernard Huys & Jozef Robijns, Muzikale schatten uit de Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I te Brussel / Trésors musicaux de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier à Bruxelles, Brussels 1975, no. 08 (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], Fig. 33 (f.1v)
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.1117
Eugeen Schreurs (ed.), De schatkamer van Alamire: muziek en miniaturen uit Keizer Karels tijd (1500-1535), Leuven 1999, no. 01 (ill. f.33v)
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.198-199, 206-207, 209, 250-251
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.496
Jozef Robijns, ‘Eine Musikhandschrift des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts im Zeichen der Verehrung unserer Lieben Frau der Sieben Schmerzen (Brüssel, Kgl. Bibliothek, Hs. 215-216)’, Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch, 44 (1960), 28-43
Barbara Haggh, ‘Charles de Clerc, seigneur de Bouvekercke, and two manuscripts: Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 215-16, and Naples, Biblioteca nationale, MS VI E 40’, Bruno Bouckaert & Eugeen Schreurs (eds.), The Burgundian-Habsburg Court Complex of Music Manuscripts (1500-1535) and the Workshop of Petrus Alamire (Colloquium Proceedings, Leuven 1999), Leuven 2003, 185-202
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 05078-5083; Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 5 photos