931 : Les sept ages du monde
Number
931
Shelf Marks
- Brussels, KBR, 9047
Owners before c.1550
- Philippe de Croy ?
- Charles de Croy
- Margaret of Austria
- Mary of Hungary
Commissioners
- Philippe de Croy ?
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jacquemart Pilavaine
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Brabant
- Towns : Brussels
- Details : Brussel
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Date
- Date details : c.1455 (c.1460 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1450 - 1459
Physical description
Measurements
- 352 (350+2) leaves
- Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
- Height of text blocks : 435 mm
- Width of text blocks : 305 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 3
- Number of miniatures : 3
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Simon Marmion (frontispiece)
- Jacquemart Pilavaine
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c.
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Les sept ages du monde
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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Otto Pächt & Ulrike Jenni, Holländische Schule (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 3), Vienna 1975, fig. 058
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Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, No. 113, p. 401
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Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, (3 photos); Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 5 photos