<< < / > >>

2226  :  Prayer Book (of Philip the Good)

Number

2226


Shelf Marks

  • München, BSB, Gall 40
  • Polling

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Good

Commissioners

  • Philip the Good ?
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man

Country

Germany


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Details : SN
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1445 (c.1450-1460 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1440 - 1449


Physical description

Measurements

  • 379 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 075-099 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 088 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 069 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 38
  • Number of miniatures : 38
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Philip the Good's Small Prayer Book
  • Willem Vrelant (and workshop) (4 miniatures)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Prayer Book (of Philip the Good)

Languages

  • Latin
  • French

Bibliography

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 116

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. 017-18, 99

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant

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.293, Cat. no. 13 (Vrelant), Fig. 028, 183?,184?

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.1396-7

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.233, 534

Online Informations and images

Images (bl-w), see: http://www.fotomarburg.de/

Photo Archives

Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 6 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman