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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

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent / Bruges
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman