976 : Livre des merveilles
Number
976
Shelf Marks
- Brussels, KBR, 9309-10
Owners before c.1550
- Philip the Good
- Library Burgundian Dukes
Commissioners
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Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders
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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
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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
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