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2866  :  Prayer Book (of Philip the Good) (with later added: lazarus's Visions of hel)

Number

2866


Shelf Marks

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Good
  • Fam. Croy ?

Commissioners

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

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1461-1467; c.1480
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1460 - 1469

Physical description

Measurements

  • 059 (51+8) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 184 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 125 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 57
  • Number of miniatures : 57
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Simon Marmion (one miniature)
  • Dreux Jehan / M Girart de Rousillon
  • Lieven van Lathem
  • M Dresden Prayer Book (seven miniatures: f.35-42)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 16th c.
  • Dating : 1550-1600


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Prayer Book (of Philip the Good) (with later added: lazarus's Visions of hel)

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 597

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M St Bertin Altar, M Girard de Roussillon, Lieven Van Lathem, ill.. 79 (f.73)

François Avril & Nicole Reynaud, Les Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520, Paris 1993, cat. no. 039 (ill. f.84)

Bodo Brinkmann, Offizium der Madonna der Codex Vat. Lat. 10293 und verwandte kleine Stundenbücher mit Architekturbordüren (Kommentarband bei Faksimileausgabe), Zurich 1992, p.133 (n.123)

Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], p. 023

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. 11 (3 ill., Master of Girart de Roussillon, Lathem, Marmion, M Dresden)

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, no. 43, p.152 (n11), 280-288, bl-w ill. 268-273, coul. ill. 56 (M Dresden, Lieven van Lathem, Dreux Jean, Marmion)

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.0350, 768

Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.048-49

Pascal Schandel & Ilona Hans-Collas, with the collaboration of Hanno Wijsman and scientific advice by François Avril, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux, Vol. I: Louis de Bruges, Paris-Leuven 2009, p.78, 84

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.234, 528, 534

Marc Gil, ‘Picardie-Hainaut: Quelques remarques sur les livres d’heures produits par le Maître de Rambures et Simon Marmion’, Sandra Hindman & James H. Marrow (eds.), Books of Hours Reconsidered, London-Turnhout 2013, p. 265-277, p. 276-277

Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 037, 63, 65, 270, 287, 290, 396

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 180 (Hennecart) (as BNF, fr 16328)

Online Informations and images

See: http://images.bnf.fr/

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 06053-73; Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 55 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman