2294 : Breviary (Carthusian)("Egmond Breviarium")
Number
2294
Shelf Marks
- James West (1720)
- Ashburnham
- Yates Thompson, no. 64
Owners before c.1550
- Arnold van Egmond, duc of Guelders
- Joris van Egmond (bishop Utrecht until 1559)
Commissioners
- Arnold van Egmond, duc of Guelders (Reinout IV ?)
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Man
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Sticht
- Details : Utrecht ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1435-1440 (c.1430 ?)
- Half centuries : 1400-1449
- Decade : 1430 - 1439
Physical description
Measurements
- 436 leaves
- Size categories of height : 225-249 mm
- Height of text blocks : 242 mm
- Width of text blocks : 165 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 93
- Number of miniatures : 81
- Number of historiated initials : 12
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Otto van Moerdrecht
- M Zweder van Culemborg
- M Berlin Germ Fol 516
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (velvet)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
liturgical
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Breviary (Carthusian)("Egmond Breviarium")
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Alexander Willem Byvanck, La miniature dans les Pays-Bas Septentrionaux, Paris 1937, pl. 19, 20, 27, 28
Otto Pächt & Ulrike Jenni, Holländische Schule (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 3), Vienna 1975, fig. 077
Saskia van Bergen , De Meesters van Otto van Moerdrecht. Een onderzoek naar de stijl en iconografie van een groep miniaturisten, in relatie tot de productie van getijdenboeken in Brugge rond 1430, dissertation, University of Amsterdam 2007, p. 384 (Moerdrechtmasters; Utrecht(?))
Henri L.M. Defoer, Anne S. Korteweg & Wilhelmina C.M. Wüstefeld, The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting, exhib. cat., New York-Utrecht-Stuttgart 1989, cat. no. 036a (6 ill.)
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
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.345, 509
William M Voelkle , Illuminated Manuscripts: Treasures of the Pierpont Morgan Library New York, New York 1998, p. 099 (f.327v)