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1001  :  Tragoediae

Number

1001


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, 9881-82

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.1425 (c.1420 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1400-1449
    • Decade : 1420 - 1429


Physical description

Measurements

  • 257 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 225-249 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 225 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 153 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)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

literary

Authors

  • Seneca

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Tragoediae

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. 227 (ill. 30)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Guillebert van Mets, ill.. 12 (f.1)

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

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, 266

Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.075

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. 215

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. 13191-6, 15457-63; Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman