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976  :  Livre des merveilles

Number

976


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, 9309-10

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Good
  • Library Burgundian Dukes

Commissioners

/

Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Flanders
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1450
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459

Physical description

Measurements

  • 079 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 300-324 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 300 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 215 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 1
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials : 1
  • Number of grisailles :

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : (red calf)
  • Dating : Unknown


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Marco Polo

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Livre des merveilles

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Georges Dogaer & Marguerite Debae, La librairie de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels 1967 [also published in Dutch: De librije van Filips de Goede, Brussels 1967], no. 205

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

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

Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: no photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman