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