991 : Vitae (Legendes de plusieurs Saints)
Number
991
Shelf Marks
- Brussels, KBR, 9549
Owners before c.1550
- Margaret of Austria
- Mary of Hungary
Commissioners
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Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders
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Date
- Date details : c.1470-1480
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 288 (1+1+3+278+2+1+1) leaves
- Size categories of height : 300-324 mm
- Height of text blocks : 307 mm
- Width of text blocks : 213 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 1
- Number of miniatures : 1
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- (rather French than Flemish)
Material
Mixed (paper + parchment)
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (lightbrown mottled leather over paste board)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Vitae (Legendes de plusieurs Saints)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.1652
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, p. 340
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. 333 (M Bruges 1482 (influence), M White Inscriptions (influence)
Marguerite Debae, La bibliothèque de Marguerite d’Autriche. Essai de reconstitution d’après l’inventaire de 1523-1524, Leuven 1995: Margaret of Austria, no. 052 (ill. 25: f.1)
Photo Archives
Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo