782 : Prayer Book-Breviary (Utrecht, Rome)(of Mary of Guelders)
Number
782
Shelf Marks
- Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, germ qu 42 (+ Wien ÖNB 1908)
Owners before c.1550
- Mary of Cleves (wife of Reinaut IV of Guelders)
- Counts of Berg
Commissioners
- Mary of Cleves (wife of Reinaut IV of Guelders)
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Woman
Country
Germany
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Helmich die Lewe (Marienborn Abbey, near Arnhem)
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Eastern Northern Netherlands (incl. Guelders)
- Details : East NN
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Date
- Date details : c.1415; c.1423-1425
- Half centuries : 1400-1449
- Decade : 1410 - 1419
Physical description
Measurements
- 482 leaves
- Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
- Height of text blocks : 185 mm
- Width of text blocks : 135 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 104
- Number of miniatures : 92
- Number of historiated initials : 12
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Mary of Guelders
- M Passion Mary of Guelders
- M Otto van Moerdrecht
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (wooden boards, with ivory)
- Dating : Unknown
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Prayer Book-Breviary (Utrecht, Rome)(of Mary of Guelders)
Languages
- Latin
- Dutch
Bibliography
Alexander Willem Byvanck & G.J. Hoogewerff, Noord-Nederlandsche miniaturen in handschriften der 14e, 15e en 16e eeuwen, 3 vols., The Hague 1922-1925, no. 014 (pl. 202)
La miniature hollandaise. Le grand siècle de l’enluminure du livre dans les Pays-Bas septentrionaux, exhib. cat., Brussels 1971, no. 08 (pl. 6)
J.P. Harthan, The Book of Hours, with a historical survey and commentary, New York, 1977 [available in French: L'âge d'or des livres d'heures, Brussels 1977], p.077-080 (2 ill.)
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. 385 (Moerdrechtmasters; Gelre)
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. 017 (3 ill.)
Joachim M. Plotzek, Katharina Winnekes & Stefan Kraus, with the collaboration of Ulrike Surmann, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Liturgie und Andacht im Mittelalter, exhib. cat., Cologne-Stuttgart 1992, p.288
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.191 (n174) (M Mary of Guelders)
cat Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, p. 136 (5af)
Zimilien. Abendländische Handschriften des Mittelalters aus den Sammlungen der Stiftung preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin, exhib. cat., Berlin-Wiesbaden 1975, no. 141 (ill.: f.132v)
Online Informations and images
See: http://www.fotomarburg.de/
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File Allemagne 01/1a (210 photos: 105067f)