3644 : Opera (with commentary Servius and Donatus)
Number
3644
Shelf Marks
- Wells-next-the-Sea, Holkham Hall, Earl of Leicester, 311 (in 2 vls)
Owners before c.1550
- Jan Crabbe (abbot (1457-1488) Duinenabdij (convent), near Bruges)
- Fam. de Baenst
Commissioners
- Jan Crabbe (abbot (1457-1488) Duinenabdij (convent), near Bruges)
- Clergy: Prelat
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Private
Scribe
Georgius Hermonymus; …
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : 1473 (one miniature); c.1490 (two miniatures)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 256 leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 350 mm
- Width of text blocks : 245 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 3 miniatures on f.9v, 41v, 122v
- Total number of illustrations : 3
- Number of miniatures : 3
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Fitzwilliam 268 (f.9v)
- M Prayer Books c.1500 (f.122v)
- M Holkham Virgil
- M Mercatellis ??
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
literary
Authors
- Vergilius (+ Servius)
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Opera (with commentary Servius and Donatus)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 087
Thomas Kren, ‘Flemish Manuscript Illumination 1475-1550’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts. Treasures from the British Library, New York-Malibu-London 1983, 1-86, Fig. 06e (f.122v), p.56
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Margaret of York ?, M Dresden Hours?, M Prayer Books c.1500?
Alain Arnould & Jean Michel Massing, Splendours of Flanders. Late Medieval Art in Cambridge Collections, Cambridge 1993, no. 71 (2 ill. f.41v, 122v)
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. 044
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.015 (n32), 168, 225 (n333), 297, text ill. 49 (M Fitzwilliam 268, M Prayer Books c.1500)
Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], Fig. 8.58 (f.41v), p.413
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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.493
Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 354 (M Prayer Books c.1500)
Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, neue Folge V, Bibermühle 2008, p. 424 (M Holkham Virgil)
W. O. Hassell, The Holkham Library : illuminations and illustrations in the manuscript library of the Earl of Leicester, Oxford 1970: 3 ill.
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 00490-5