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915  :  Forteresse de la foi

Number

915


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, 9007

Owners before c.1550

  • Charles de Croy
  • Margaret of Austria
  • Mary of Hungary

Commissioners

/

Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ? (Ghent ?)
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1480-1485
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • 407 (3+400+4) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 477 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 352 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 5 miniatures: f.14, 81, 122, 256, 369
  • Total number of illustrations : 5
  • Number of miniatures : 5
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

overpainted arms

Miniaturists

  • M Prayer Books c.1500 (circle) ??

Material

Parchment

Binding

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


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • Alfonso Lopez de Spina

Translators

  • Pierre Richard

Contents

  • 1 : Forteresse de la foi

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Merle Fifield, ‘The French Manuscripts of La Forteresse de la Foi’, Manuscripta, 16 (1972), 98-111, no. 04

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. 29 (1 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. 07 (ill. f.14)

Pierre Cockshaw & Christiane Van den Bergen-Pantens (eds.), L’ordre de la Toison d’or de Philippe le Bon à Philippe le Beau (1430-1505). Idéal ou reflet d’une société?, Turnhout 1996, Section VI-37

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.126

Pascal Schandel & Ilona Hans-Collas, with the collaboration of Hanno Wijsman and scientific advice by François Avril, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux, Vol. I: Louis de Bruges, Paris-Leuven 2009, p.70

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.326

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. 252

Marguerite Debae, La bibliothèque de Marguerite d’Autriche. Essai de reconstitution d’après l’inventaire de 1523-1524, Leuven 1995: Margaret of Austria, no. 013 (ill. 8: f.81)

Alphonse Bayot, Martin le Franc: l’estrif de fortune et de vertu: étude du manuscrit 9510 de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, provenant de l’ancienne “librairie” des Croÿ de Chimay, Brussels 1928: Croy, no. 02

Photo Archives

Brussels, IRPA-KIK, (5 photos); Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 5 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman