1507 : Breviary (Geraardsbergen Abbey) (vol. 4)
Number
1507
Shelf Marks
- Denée, Abbaye de Maredsous, fol 3 / 4
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 : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent ? / Brussel ?
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Date
- Date details : 1449-1450
- Half centuries : 1400-1449
- Decade : 1440 - 1449
Physical description
Measurements
- 211 leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 353 mm
- Width of text blocks : 246 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 61
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials : 61
- 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. 4)
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. 588d
Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule I (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 6), Vienna 1983, fig. 056
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. 07d (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. 75d
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. 008d
Online Informations and images
Information: http://www.cicweb.be/fr/manuscrit.php?id=592
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 14377-86