1505 : Breviary (Geraardsbergen Abbey) (vol. 2)
Number
1505
Shelf Marks
- Denée, Abbaye de Maredsous, fol 3 / 2
Owners before c.1550
- Benedictine convent of St Adrian, Geraardsbergen
Commissioners
- Adriaan Kimpe (abbot of Benedictine convent of St Adrian, Geraardsbergen)
- Clergy: Prelat
- Gender : Man
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Ecclesiastical
Scribe
Wilhelmus de Predio (Willem van Acker)
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Brabant
- Towns : Brussels
- Details : Ghent ? / Brussel ?
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Date
- Date details : 1449-1450
- Half centuries : 1400-1449
- Decade : 1440 - 1449
Physical description
Measurements
- 245 leaves
- Size categories of height : 325-349 mm
- Height of text blocks : 334 mm
- Width of text blocks : 240 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 7
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials : 7
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Gerard Brilis
- Dreux Jehan / M Girart de Rousillon
- Antonis Utenbroec / M Boston City of God
- M Guillebert van Mets (influence)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (red morocco)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
liturgical
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Breviary (Geraardsbergen Abbey) (vol. 2)
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. 038, M Guillebert van Mets (influence)
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 059
Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 588b
Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996
Eva Wolf, Das Bild in der spätmittelalterlichen Buchmalerei: das Sachsenheim-Gebetbuch im Werk Lievin van Lathems, Hildesheim 1996, cat. no. 07b (5 hands: M Guillebert van Mets, M Sachsenheim, French influence)
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.0929
Medieval Mastery. Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold, 800-1475, exhib. cat., Leuven 2002, no. 75b
R.-F. Poswick, ‘Le Bréviaire bénédictin de Grammont (Geraardsbergen)’, Le Livre et l'estampe, 43 (1997), no. 148, 21-112
Luc Knapen, Inventaire desciptif des éditions du XVIe siècle conservées à la Bibliothèque de Maredsous, Denée 1986, p. 008b
Online Informations and images
Information: http://www.cicweb.be/fr/manuscrit.php?id=592
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 14377-86; Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 4 photos