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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)
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman