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2046  :  Hours "Bregilles"

Number

2046


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Yates Thompson 4

Owners before c.1550

  • Jacques de Brégilles

Commissioners

  • Jacques de Brégilles (d. 1475, treasurer of Philip the Good)
    • Court functionary
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1460
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1460 - 1469


Physical description

Measurements

  • 210 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 192 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 128 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 31
  • Number of miniatures : 31
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Willem Vrelant (and workshop)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours "Bregilles"

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant, ill. 58 (f.27)

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

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.286 (Vrelant), Fig. 113 (f.94v)

Céline Van Hoorebeeck, Livres et lectures des fonctionnaires des ducs de Bourgogne (ca 1420-1520), thèse de doctorat de l'Université de Namur, 2007 (2 volumes), II, 197-198

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.489

J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts, London 1911-, vol. V, no. 39 (f.27)

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 012

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8134&CollID=58&NStart=4

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman