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
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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
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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