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965  :  Traités de morale

Number

965


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, 9272-76

Owners before c.1550

  • Margaret of York
  • Margaret of Austria
  • Mary of Hungary

Commissioners

  • Margaret of York ?
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Woman

Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

David Aubert ?

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1475-1479 (1468-1476 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 312 (1+1+307+1+1+1) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 384 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 285 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 5
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles : 5
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Moral Treatises
  • M Mary of Burgundy (influence)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (lightbrown mottled leather over paste board)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Thomas a Kempis
  • Jean Gerson
  • etc.

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Traités de morale

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 196, M Moral Treatises, M Mary of Burgundy, Ghent (ill. 8: f.182)

Marguerite d’York et son temps, exhib. cat., Brussels 1967 [also published in Dutch], no. 06: coul. ill. f.187)

P. Cockshaw, C. Lemaire & A. Rouzet, Charles le Téméraire. Exposition organisée à l’occasion du cinquième centenaire de sa mort, exhib. cat., Brussels 1977 [also published in Dutch: Karel de Stoute. Tentoonstelling georganiseerd naar aanleiding van de vijhonderdste verjaring van zijn dood, Brussels 1977], no. 017 (ill. 20)

Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 604

Thomas Kren, ‘Flemish Manuscript Illumination 1475-1550’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts. Treasures from the British Library, New York-Malibu-London 1983, 1-86, Fig. 03h (f.55)

Pierre Cockshaw, Miniatures en grisaille, exhib. cat., Brussels 1986 [also published in Dutch: Miniaturen in grisaille, Brussels 1986], no. 22 (coul. ill. f.182)

Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.1148-9

Bernard Bousmanne & Céline Van Hoorebeeck (eds.), La Librairie des ducs de Bourgogne: manuscrits conservés à la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique. Vol. I: Textes liturgiques, ascétiques, théologiques, philosophiques et moraux, Turnhout 2000

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, no. 028

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.191, 202

Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, No. 124, p. 421-424

Camille Gaspar & Frédéric Lyna, Les principaux manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels 1984-1989 [reprint; 1st edition: Paris 1937-1945], no. 290 (M Margaret of York (follower))

Marguerite Debae, La bibliothèque de Marguerite d’Autriche. Essai de reconstitution d’après l’inventaire de 1523-1524, Leuven 1995: Margaret of Austria, no. 155 (ill. 68: f.182)

Thomas Kren (ed.), Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Visions of Tondal. Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections (June 21-24, 1990), Los Angeles 1992: Margaret, no. 3-21

Photo Archives

Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 5 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman