944 : Somme le roi
Number
944
Shelf Marks
- Brussels, KBR, 9106
Owners before c.1550
- Margaret of York
- Baudoin de Lannoy ?
- Margaret of Austria
- Mary of Hungary
Commissioners
- Margaret of York
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Woman
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
David Aubert
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent
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Date
- Date details : 1475
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 259 (256+3) leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 360 mm
- Width of text blocks : 254 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 1
- Number of miniatures : 1
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Moral Treatises
- M Mary of Burgundy (influence)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c.
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
philosophical, theological, ascetic
Authors
- Laurent du bois
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Somme le roi
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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P. Cockshaw, C. Lemaire & A. Rouzet, Charles le Téméraire. Exposition organisée à l’occasion du cinquième centenaire de sa mort, exhib. cat., Brussels 1977 [also published in Dutch: Karel de Stoute. Tentoonstelling georganiseerd naar aanleiding van de vijhonderdste verjaring van zijn dood, Brussels 1977], no. 016 (ill. 21)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Mary of Burgundy ?
Richard E.F. Straub, David Aubert, escripvain et clerc (Faux titre. Etudes de langue et littérature françaises, 96), Amsterdam-Atlanta 1995, Section 2.2.1.01
Bernard Bousmanne, Frédérique Johan & Céline Van Hoorebeeck (eds.), La Librairie des ducs de Bourgogne: manuscrits conservés à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Vol. II: Textes didactiques, Turnhout 2003
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.191, 202, 418, 420
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. 123, p. 421-423
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. 289 (M Margaret of York)
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010: Baudouin de Lannoy, no. 01
Hanno Wijsman, Gebonden weelde. Productie van geïllustreerde handschriften en adellijk boekenbezit in de Bourgondische Nederlanden (1400-1550), doctoral dissertation, Leiden University 2003 [with a summary in French]: Baudouin de Lannoy, no. 01
Marguerite Debae, La bibliothèque de Marguerite d’Autriche. Essai de reconstitution d’après l’inventaire de 1523-1524, Leuven 1995: Margaret of Austria, no. 154 (ill. 67: f.9)
Thomas Kren (ed.), Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Visions of Tondal. Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections (June 21-24, 1990), Los Angeles 1992: Margaret, no. 1-06
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