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1320  :  Breviary (Sarum) (of Margaret of York)

Number

1320


Shelf Marks

  • Cambridge, Saint John's College, H. 13 (Ms. 215)
  • Thomas Gardiner Armigero (until 1618)
  • Cotton

Owners before c.1550

  • Margaret of York

Commissioners

  • Margaret of York ?
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Woman

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1475-1480 (c.1470 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 263 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 250-274 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 260 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 185 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations : 7
  • Number of miniatures : 7
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

"Bien en aviengne"

Miniaturists

  • M Mary of Burgundy (early work) (and circle)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 17th c.: gold-tooled brown leather over paste board
  • Dating : 1600-1700


Content

Genre

liturgical

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Breviary (Sarum) (of Margaret of York)

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 198, M Mary of Burgundy (circle), Ghent, for Margaret of York

G.I. Lieftinck, Boekverluchters uit de omgeving van Maria van Bourgondie ca. 1475 - ca. 1485 (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Klasse der Letteren, 66), 2 vols., Brussels 1969, p.001f, p.XIf (ill. 1-4, 7-11)

Marguerite d’York et son temps, exhib. cat., Brussels 1967 [also published in Dutch], no. 07

Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 608

Thomas Kren, ‘Flemish Manuscript Illumination 1475-1550’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts. Treasures from the British Library, New York-Malibu-London 1983, 1-86, p.015

Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule II (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 7), Vienna 1990, fig. 076 (p.89)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Mary of Burgundy

Alain Arnould & Jean Michel Massing, Splendours of Flanders. Late Medieval Art in Cambridge Collections, Cambridge 1993, no. 49 (ill. f.103)

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. 029

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.189 (n163)

Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.1033

Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, no. 022

Nigel Morgan & Stella Panayotova, with the assistance of Martine Meuwese, Elisabeth New, Suzanne Reynolds, Hanna Vorholt, Andrea Worm, A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part I: The Low Countries, Germania, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary, 2 vols., Cambridge 2009, no. 210

Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 280

Thomas Kren (ed.), Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Visions of Tondal. Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections (June 21-24, 1990), Los Angeles 1992: Margaret, no. 3-20

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman