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892  :  Choir book (motets, songs)(of Margaret of Austria)

Number

892


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, 228

Owners before c.1550

  • Margaret of Austria
  • Mary of Hungary

Commissioners

  • Margaret of Austria
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Woman

Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Alamire (?)

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Brabant
    • Towns : Mechelen
    • Details : Mechelen
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1519-1523
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1520 - 1529

Physical description

Measurements

  • 073 (075?) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 365 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 250 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 3
  • Number of miniatures : 3
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Charles V (f.1v)

Material

Parchment

Binding

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


Content

Genre

liturgical

Authors

  • Pierre de la Rue
  • Agricola
  • Ockeghem
  • Josquin Desprez
  • etc.

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Choir book (motets, songs)(of Margaret of Austria)

Languages

  • Latin (+ Dutch)
  • French

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. 10

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. 43 (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], Fig. 32 (f.2), p.32 ?

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], p.440

Jan Deschamps & Herman Mulder, Inventaris van de Middelnederlandse handschriften van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Brussels 1998

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.1018, 1122

Eugeen Schreurs (ed.), De schatkamer van Alamire: muziek en miniaturen uit Keizer Karels tijd (1500-1535), Leuven 1999, no. 02 (ill. f.1v, 50v)

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.203, 210

Marguerite Debae, La bibliothèque de Marguerite d’Autriche. Essai de reconstitution d’après l’inventaire de 1523-1524, Leuven 1995: Margaret of Austria, no. 002 (ill. 3: f.2)

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 05028-77; Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 22 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman