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1177  :  Fleur des histoires (vol. 2)

Number

1177


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, IV 669
  • Sotheby's 1969-07-09, no. 41
  • Groliers Club 1964-05-12, no. 115
  • Giraud-Badin 1935-01-28, no. 15
  • Drouot 1927-4-10
  • Marquise de Villehermose (before 1927) (+ Brussels, KBR, 21252-21253)

Owners before c.1550

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Commissioners

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Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1480
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • 499 (1+15+482+1) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 382 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 280 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 5 large, 32 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 37
  • Number of miniatures : 37
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

"Gar toy de ly"; unidentified arms

Miniaturists

  • M Chattering Hands

Material

Mixed (paper + parchment)

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Jean Mansel

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Fleur des histoires (vol. 2)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Loyset Liédet ?

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.1654

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.449, 579 (M Chattering Hands, no. 05)

Cinq années d’acquisitions 1969-1973. Exposition organisée à la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, Brussels 1975, no. 046 (ill. f.1, f122)

Photo Archives

Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman