978 : Speculum humanae salvationis Vita S Laurentii
Number
978
Shelf Marks
- Brussels, KBR, 9332-46
Owners before c.1550
- Benedictine convent St Laurent, Liège
Commissioners
- Benedictine convent St Laurent, Liège
- Institution: ecclesiastical
- Gender : Institution
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean de Stavelot
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Eastern Southern Netherlands (incl. Liège + Limburg)
- Details : Liège (St Laurent convent)
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Date
- Date details : 1428
- Half centuries : 1400-1449
- Decade : 1420 - 1429
Physical description
Measurements
- 176 leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 352 mm
- Width of text blocks : 240 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 192
- Number of miniatures : 192
- Number of historiated initials : 2
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Jean de Stavelot
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
biblical
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Speculum humanae salvationis
- 2 : Vita S Laurentii
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Isabelle Hottois e.a., L'iconographie musicale dans les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, exhib. cat., Brussels 1982, no. 081
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Stavelot, ill.. 22 (f.129)
Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996, cat. no. 05 (fig. 18, 22, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36, 42, 46, 47, 52, etc.)
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. 219
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 05301-5405; Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: many photos