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973  :  L'ame contemplative L'art de bien mourir …

Number

973


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, 9305-6

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

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470 (1468-1477)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 162 (1+1+158+1+1) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 382 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 270 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 3
  • Number of miniatures : 3
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Margaret of York

Material

Parchment

Binding

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


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Jean Gerson

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : L'ame contemplative
  • 2 : L'art de bien mourir
  • 3 : …

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

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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. 134, M Margaret of York (ill. 45: f.76)

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. 019 (ill. 23

Christiane Van den Bergen-Pantens, Manuscrits à peintures 1460-1486. Exposition, Bruxelles, Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, exhib. cat., Brussels 1989 [also available in Dutch: Handschriften met miniaturen, 1460-1486], no. 14 (ill. f.123)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Margaret of York, ill.. 65 (f.76)

Scot McKendrick, The History of Alexander the Great: an Illuminated Manuscript of Vasco da Lucena’s French Translation of the Ancient Text by Quintus Curtius Rufus (Getty Museum Monographs on Illuminated Manuscripts), Los Angeles 1996, Fig. 10 (f.76)

Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], Fig. 7.33 (f.7)

Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 270 (f.7)

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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.217

Pascal Schandel & Ilona Hans-Collas, with the collaboration of Hanno Wijsman and scientific advice by François Avril, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux, Vol. I: Louis de Bruges, Paris-Leuven 2009, p.98, 145

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

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, p. 295, 296

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 158 (M Margaret of York)

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. 291 (M Margaret of York)

Marguerite Debae, La bibliothèque de Marguerite d’Autriche. Essai de reconstitution d’après l’inventaire de 1523-1524, Leuven 1995: Margaret of Austria, no. 156 (ill. 69: f.7)

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. 1-03

Photo Archives

Brussels, IRPA-KIK, (3 photos); Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 3 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman