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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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