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1742  :  Choir book (9 masses)

Number

1742


Shelf Marks

  • Jena, ThULB, 4 (Chorbuch 4)

Owners before c.1550

  • Maximilian of Austria
  • Frederick the Wise of Saxonia

Commissioners

  • Maximilian of Austria (later adapted as a gift for King Henry VIII of England, but never reached him)
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man

Country

Germany


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Alamire (?)

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Ghent ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1513-1514 (c.1515 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1510 - 1519

Physical description

Measurements

  • 117 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 775-799 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 780 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 545 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 8
  • Number of miniatures : 8
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Davidscenes Grimani
  • Gerard Horenbout / M James IV of Scotland (follower)

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

liturgical

Authors

  • Pierre de la Rue
  • etc.

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Choir book (9 masses)

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Eugeen Schreurs (ed.), De schatkamer van Alamire: muziek en miniaturen uit Keizer Karels tijd (1500-1535), Leuven 1999, no. 13 (ill. f.15v-16, 42v, 43, 30)

Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, p.383-5 (M Davidscenes)

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.187-188, 194, 197, 202, 210

Elizabeth Morrison, 'Music Meant to Impress: Flemish Artists, European Politics, and Jena, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliotek, Ms. 4', Journal of the Alamire Foundation, 6 (2014), p. 167-252

Hans Lülfing & Hans-Erich Teitge, Handschriften und alte Drucke: Kostbarkeiten aus Bibliotheken der DDR, Wiesbaden 1981, p. 249 (ill. f.42v)

Irmgard Kratzsch, Schätze der Buchmalerei. Aus der Handschriftensammlung der Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Jena 2001, no. 17

Online Informations and images

Digital facsimile: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00014233

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman