ILVB register 1507-1513 fol 121v-122r colour version

This document features several lines of early 16th-century secretary hand script written on parchment. It records a specific banquet involving 'Jheronimus die maelre' (Jerome the painter), indicating his active participation in the social and religious life of his home city. The text is an administrative record of the Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap, the religious confraternity to which Bosch belonged.

This is one of the few surviving primary historical documents that anchor the life of Hieronymus Bosch, whose visionary and often grotesque paintings are central to the Western 'uncanny' tradition. It places the artist within the orthodox religious framework of the Devotio Moderna, which informed his complex allegories of sin, judgment, and the soul's struggle.