1115 : Prayer Book / Breviary (incomplete; only 26 leaves)
Number
1115
Shelf Marks
- Brussels, KBR, II 5646
Owners before c.1550
Commissioners
- Nobility
- Gender : Couple
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
-
Date
- Date details : c.1480
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 026 leaves
- Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
- Height of text blocks : 203 mm
- Width of text blocks : 135 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 38
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials : 17
- Number of grisailles : 21
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Mildmay
- M Vraie chronique dEscoce
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Prayer Book / Breviary (incomplete; only 26 leaves)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant
Pierre Cockshaw, Miniatures en grisaille, exhib. cat., Brussels 1986 [also published in Dutch: Miniaturen in grisaille, Brussels 1986], no. 23 (coul. ill. f.12v)
Bernard Bousmanne, Guillaume Wielant of Willem Vrelant. Miniaturist aan het Bourgondische hof in de 15e eeuw, exhib. cat., Brussels 1997 [also published in French], 11
Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], p. 140
Bernard Bousmanne, “Item a Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur”: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l’enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire, Turnhout 1997, p.272 (Vrelant, M Jean Chevrot, M Folpard van Amerongen), Fig. 025, 68, 69, 84 (f.40), 93, 95, 107, 154, 162, 179, p.328-331 (ill. )
Anne Hagiopan van Buren, ‘Willem Vrelant, Questions and Issues’, Revue belge d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art, 68 (1999), 3-30, M Polemical Texts
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.289, 291-292
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. 330 (Vrelant (and pupils))
Photo Archives
Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 8 photos