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1195  :  Livre d'espérance

Number

1195


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, IV 1185
  • Charles-Alexandre de Croy-Havré (1581-1624)

Owners before c.1550

  • Charles-Alexandre de Croy-Havré (1581-1624)

Commissioners

/

Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Details : North France / SN
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1490
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1490 - 1499

Physical description

Measurements

  • 093 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 298 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 215 mm

Illustrations

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

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 17th c. (brown leather over wooden boards)
  • Dating : 1600-1700


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Alain Chartier

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Livre d'espérance

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

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.341

Dix années d’acquisitions 1979-1989. Bibliothèque royale Albert 1er, Brussels 1991, no. 004

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman