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995  :  Speculum Regum

Number

995


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, 9596-97

Owners before c.1550

  • Godevaert de Wilde
  • Philip the Good
  • Library Burgundian Dukes

Commissioners

  • Godevaert de Wilde
    • Townsman
    • Gender : Man

Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1420 (c.1400-1430)
    • Half centuries : 1400-1449
    • Decade : 1420 - 1429

Physical description

Measurements

  • 117 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 300-324 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 315 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 230 mm

Illustrations

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

Miniaturists

  • M Guillebert van Mets

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (brown calf) (original binding was by Livin Stuvaert, Ghent)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

philosophical, theological, ascetic

Authors

  • Alvarus Pelagius

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Speculum Regum

Languages

  • Latin

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. 054

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Guillebert van Mets

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.0928

Bernard Bousmanne, Frédérique Johan & Céline Van Hoorebeeck (eds.), La Librairie des ducs de Bourgogne: manuscrits conservés à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Vol. II: Textes didactiques, Turnhout 2003

Céline Van Hoorebeeck, Livres et lectures des fonctionnaires des ducs de Bourgogne (ca 1420-1520), thèse de doctorat de l'Université de Namur, 2007 (2 volumes), II, 265

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.226

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. 216

Thomas Falmagne & Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), Corpus Catalogorum Belgii. The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries. Volume V: Ducs de Bourgogne, Brussels (forthcoming in 2010): Dukes of Burgundy

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. 13164, 15464; Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 2 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman