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1614  :  Breviary ("Brimeu")

Number

1614


Shelf Marks

  • Genève, BGE, Comites Latentes 208
  • Sotheby's 1983-06-13, no. 21
  • John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute (1933-1993), no. 28 (G.3)
  • John Boykett Jarman (c.1781-1864)

Owners before c.1550

  • Guy de Brimeu (d.1477)

Commissioners

  • Guy de Brimeu (d.1477)
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

Switzerland


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : 1473-1477
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

  • 571 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 188 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 134 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 71
  • Number of miniatures : 4
  • Number of historiated initials : 67
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Dresden Prayer Book (miniatures)
  • M Vie St Colette (initials)
  • (19th c. hand)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (purple velvet over wood)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

liturgical

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Breviary ("Brimeu")

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, no. 13, p.079-85, 340, 369, bl-w ill. 65-69, coul. ill. 8 (M Dresden, M Vie de St Colette)

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.516

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman