968 : Legenda aurea
Number
968
Shelf Marks
- Brussels, KBR, 9282-85
Owners before c.1550
- J.C. (?)
Commissioners
/
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Hainaut
- Details : France + Hainaut
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Date
- Date details : 1470-1477
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 383 leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 374 mm
- Width of text blocks : 262 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 62
- Number of miniatures : 62
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Antoine Rolin (workshop) ?
- (French hand)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
Authors
- Jacobus de Voragine
Translators
- Jean de Vignay
Contents
- 1 : Legenda aurea
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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. 203, Marmion and a French master
Christiane Van den Bergen-Pantens, Manuscrits à peintures 1460-1486. Exposition, Bruxelles, Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, exhib. cat., Brussels 1989 [also available in Dutch: Handschriften met miniaturen, 1460-1486], no. 10 (ill. f.87)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M St Bertin Altar ?
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.225 (M Antoine Rolin (circle))
Brigitte Dekeyser & Jan Van der Stock, Manuscripts in Transition. Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002) (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 15), Leuven 2005, p.289
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.303
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. 303 (M Hortulus Animae, Vrelant)
Anne Korteweg, ‘La bibliothèque de Philippe de Clèves: inventaire et manuscrits parvenus jusqu’à nous’, Jelle Haemers, Céline Van Hoorebeeck, Hanno Wijsman (eds.), Entre la ville, la noblesse et l’état. Philippe de Clèves (1456-1528), homme politique et bibliophile (Burgundica, 13), Turnhout 2007, 183-221: Philip of Cleves, no. 026
Arie de Fouw, Philips van Kleef: een bijdrage tot de kennis van zijn leven en karakter, Groningen 1937: Philip of Cleves, no. 03
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, (8 photos); Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: many photos