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This document fragment shows four lines of Dutch secretary hand script from a financial ledger. The text identifies the artist as 'Jheronimus die maelder' (Hieronymus the painter) in relation to his work for a religious confraternity. It is one of the few surviving contemporary records that provide a factual basis for the artist's life and professional status.
This record provides a crucial biographical link for Hieronymus Bosch, whose surreal and visionary paintings are frequently interpreted through the lenses of alchemy, moral philosophy, and late medieval mysticism. It establishes his connection to the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Lady, an organization that shaped the religious and intellectual environment of 's-Hertogenbosch.
Inscriptions(Dutch)
van binden van t register dienende den Jheronimus die maelder, over d’ontfanck van deser Rekeninghe ende mits dien dattet verchiert by den voirs. Jheronimus
Translation
of binding the register serving the Jheronimus the painter, for the receipt of this account and by reason of that it is decorated by the aforesaid Jheronimus