951 : Fleur des histoires (vol. 2)
Number
951
Shelf Marks
- Brussels, KBR, 9232
Owners before c.1550
- Philip the Good
Commissioners
- Philip the Good ?
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Man
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Isidore du Ny
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Hainaut
- Towns : Mons
- Details : Mons ?
-
Date
- Date details : 1446-1451 (before 1460)
- Half centuries : 1400-1449
- Decade : 1440 - 1449
Physical description
Measurements
- 494 (490+4) leaves
- Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
- Height of text blocks : 435 mm
- Width of text blocks : 300 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 23
- Number of miniatures : 23
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Mansel (frontispiece)
- Simon Marmion
- M Terouanne
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Jean Mansel
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Fleur des histoires (vol. 2)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 059, Mansel, Marmion, before 1460, (ill. 29: f.444v)
Edmund Bowles, Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages / La pratique musicale au moyen âge, Geneva 1983, no. 133 (f.269)
Isabelle Hottois e.a., L'iconographie musicale dans les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, exhib. cat., Brussels 1982, no. 069 (ill. 7: f.375)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Mansel, M St Bertin Altar
François Avril & Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, Paris 1993, cat. no. 037 (ill. f.269, 375, 388), p.73-4, p.77-8
Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996
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], Fig. 6.76-77 (f.388, 364v) p.311, p.338
Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 008 (f.444v)
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.233, 332, 362
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. 110, p. 110, 183, 184, 391, 393
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. 301.2 (Marmion (followers), M Mansel)
Bernard Bousmanne & Céline Van Hoorebeeck (eds.), La Librairie des ducs de Bourgogne: manuscrits conservés à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Vol. I: Textes liturgiques, ascétiques, théologiques, philosophiques et moraux, Turnhout 2000 (list Lemaire: Dukes of Burgundy)
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 14754; Brussels, IRPA-KIK, (16 photos); Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 21 photos