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1504  :  Breviary (Geraardsbergen Abbey) (vol. 1)

Number

1504


Shelf Marks

  • Denée, Abbaye de Maredsous, fol 3 / 1

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 : Brabant
    • Towns : Brussels
    • Details : Ghent ? / Brussel ?
  • Date
    • Date details : 1449-1450
    • Half centuries : 1400-1449
    • Decade : 1440 - 1449

Physical description

Measurements

  • 190 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 325-349 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 340 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 240 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 4
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials : 4
  • 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. 1)

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. 588a

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. 07a (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. 75a

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. 008a (ill. f.163)

Online Informations and images

Information: http://www.cicweb.be/fr/manuscrit.php?id=592

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 14377-86

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman