908 : Choir book (Liber missarum: 7 missae)
Number
908
Shelf Marks
- Brussels, KBR, 6428
Owners before c.1550
- Margaret of Austria / Maximilian of Austria ?
Commissioners
- Margaret of Austria ? / Maximilian of Austria ?
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Woman
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Alamire (?)
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent / Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1512 (1508-1534)
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1510 - 1519
Physical description
Measurements
- 124 (1+122+1) leaves
- Size categories of height : 725-749 mm
- Height of text blocks : 725 mm
- Width of text blocks : 490 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations :
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (paste board)(original binding in leather)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
liturgical
Authors
- Pierre de la Rue
- Heinrich Isaac
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Choir book (Liber missarum: 7 missae)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Pieter Andriessen, Bernard Huys & Jozef Robijns, Muzikale schatten uit de Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I te Brussel / Trésors musicaux de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier à Bruxelles, Brussels 1975, no. 13
Eugeen Schreurs (ed.), De schatkamer van Alamire: muziek en miniaturen uit Keizer Karels tijd (1500-1535), Leuven 1999, no. 03 (ill. f.62v)
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.185-186, 197, 202-203, 210
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.202
Marguerite Debae, La bibliothèque de Marguerite d’Autriche. Essai de reconstitution d’après l’inventaire de 1523-1524, Leuven 1995: Margaret of Austria, no. 039
Photo Archives
Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: no photos