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20+ emblems about the book trade! Ms. 20327 KBR, 'affixiones' of the Jesuit college in Brussels for the year 1683, which means we are nearing the completion of a unique series (1630-1685) of manuscripts containing more than 2,000 drawings and poems uurl.kbr.be/2241075

Believed to have been ordered by Charlemagne! Ms. II 2572 KBR, 'Quaestiones in Danielem prophetam', Petrus Grammaticus (= Archidiaconus), Latin instructor to the emperor himself, c. 800, from the libraries of Stavelot Abbey and Sir Thomas Phillipps uurl.kbr.be/1558120

Today KBR: the annual meeting of the Belgian-Dutch Bookbinding Association, with a presentation on the history of our collections by yours truly and an expert opinion on special bookbindings from the 9th-20th centuries by July Van Malderen

Ms. 10326 KBR, Lives of the Saints in French, Belgium or Northern France, 45 miniatures, c. 1240   Attested in the libraries of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in 1467, and of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1487   uurl.kbr.be/1794385

A woman's family fighting the dragon while she is fleeing into the air (f. 30v); three unclean spirits, like toads, vomited out by the dragon, the beast and the false prophet (f. 40v) Ms. II 282 KBR, the Book of Revelation in French, England, c. 1325: uurl.kbr.be/2242584

Hoy es la festividad de San Isidoro de Sevilla. ¿Lo celebramos con la página inicial de una de sus obras más universales? Sí, nos referimos a las "Etimologías", que os traemos en una copia merovingia del s. VIII procedente de Corbie (Francia). KBR opac.kbr.be/LIBRARY/doc/SY…

The book collector is the first fool ! INC B 563 KBR, ‘The Ship of Fools’ by Sebastian Brant, French translation, printed in Paris in 1497/8 This copy was the ‘sixth book’ on the ‘second desk' (ms. note) in the library of Mary of Hungary (bookplate) uurl.kbr.be/1944819

Narcissus falling in love with his own reflection in a pool of water (f. 10v)   Ms. 9574-75 KBR, ‘Le Roman de la Rose’ by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Paris, c. 1300, 23 miniatures   Now digitised: uurl.kbr.be/2245260

Beaten, butchered and roasted by monsters: hell was no fun for sinners! (f. 90r) Ms. 11129 KBR, Gerard Vliederhoven’s ‘De quatuor novissimis’, French translation by Jean Miélot, 1455, Oudenaarde (Belgium), 5 miniatures attributed to Jan de Tavernier uurl.kbr.be/1740428

Coat of arms of Louis de Bruges, Lord of Gruuthuse (d. 1492) on the binding and on f. 3r Ms. II 280 KBR, works attributed to John of Ruusbroec, written in 1413 in the Priory of Zevenborren near Brussels, commissioned by Amant Mannoet, who mentions the price he paid on f. 102r

A typical example of 15th-century book production in Bruges: full-page miniatures and sumptuous marginal decoration with plants, birds and angels playing music (f. 86v-87r) Ms. 9798 KBR, Book of Hours (Use of Rome), Bruges, c. 1440, 17 miniatures: uurl.kbr.be/2250603

Ms. 9055 KBR, ‘Romuleon’, a book on the history of Rome, Mons (?), 1468, commissioned by Antoine de Bourgogne, written by David Aubert On 12 Dec. 1639, Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, governor of the Netherlands, browsed it with great pleasure (f. 322r) uurl.kbr.be/2250859

Tomorrow, the museum KBR opens its doors again! 80 manuscripts and rare books from the Burgundian-Habsburg period await curious visitors With an extra dimension: discover how the Franco-Flemish polyphonists played a key role in the Low Countries in the 15th & 16th centuries

‘A fairly large book [...] full of prayers, the first of which is to Saint Peter of Luxembourg’ Ms. 10389 KBR, prayers in Latin and French, commissioned by the Duke of Savoy in 1497, brought to Brussels by his widow Margaret of Austria, 192 miniatures uurl.kbr.be/2253875

Ms. 14650-59 KBR, Lives of the Saints, 10th century, Meuse Valley From Commelinus (Heidelberg 1597), Duyn (Amsterdam 1605), the Bollandists (Antwerp) to the Royal Library (Brussels 1778), back on the private market and bought in the 1835 Heber sales uurl.kbr.be/2012827

A miniature depicting the Ascension in the ‘V’ of the traditional introit ‘Viri Galilaei’ Ms. 6435 KBR, Gradual for a female Dominican house, Southern Netherlands, 8 miniatures, c. 1300 uurl.kbr.be/2257693

Bad governance (f. 1v) vs good governance (f. 2r) Ms. 11201-02 KBR, Aristotle 'Politica et Oeconomica', commissioned by king Charles V of France, 1376 Now in Trier, for an exhibition in the Stadtmuseum on Marcus Aurelius’ notion of good governance   uurl.kbr.be/1541277

The descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and Mother Mary (f. 92r), with a monkey popping up next to the capital D Ms. 9391 KBR, Book of Hours in Latin and French, c. 1300, Northern France, bearing the coats of arms of both Hainaut and Flanders uurl.kbr.be/1994654

In principio (f. 6r) Ms. II 1639 KBR, first part of the Old Testament, Benedictine Saint-Hubert Abbey, c. 1050, 44 initials Nationalised in 1795 and placed in Namur City Library, where it got lost … to reappear on the book market only in 1896   uurl.kbr.be/2155110

‘The good cook’ Jan van Leeuwen Ms II 138 KBR, fragments c. 1400 of mystical works in Dutch by the man who developed from an illiterate cook at Groenendaal Priory (near Brussels) to the oldest follower of Ruusbroec and a famous writer himself uurl.kbr.be/1834822