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1122  :  Traité de noblesse

Number

1122


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, II 7057
  • Henry Drury (1827)

Owners before c.1550

  • Anthony of Burgundy (the Great Bastard)
  • Adolphe of Burgundy

Commissioners

  • Anthony of Burgundy (the Great Bastard) ?
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 079 (2+72+2+3) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 225-249 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 237 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 180 mm

Illustrations

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

Miniaturists

  • M Margaret of York ?

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 17th c. (blue-black morocco)
  • Dating : 1600-1700


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Diego de Valera

Translators

  • Hugues de Salve

Contents

  • 1 : Traité de noblesse

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 185, M Margaret of York (= pupil M Vasco da Lucena) (cf. no. 184), Brussels, for Anthony of Burgundy

Arjo Vanderjagt, Qui sa vertu anoblist. The concepts of “Noblesse” and “Chose Publicque” in Burgundian political thought (including fifteenth century french translations of Giovanni Aurispa, Buonaccorso da Montemagno, and Diego de Valera), Groningen 1981, no. 07 (F), ill. 13 (f.1)

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 106

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Margaret of York (as KBR, II 7075)

Pierre Cockshaw & Christiane Van den Bergen-Pantens (eds.), L’ordre de la Toison d’or de Philippe le Bon à Philippe le Beau (1430-1505). Idéal ou reflet d’une société?, Turnhout 1996, Section VI-36

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.275, 305, 368

Christiane Van den Bergen-Pantens, ‘Héraldique et bibliophilie: Le cas d’Antoine, Grand Bâtard de Bourgogne (1421-1504)’, Anny Raman & Eugène Manning (eds.), Miscellanea Martin Wittek. Album de codicologie et de paléographie offer à Martin Wittek, Leuven 1993, 323-354: Anthony of Burgundy, no. 16

Photo Archives

Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 2 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman