853 : Facta et dicta memorabilia (vol. 2/3)
Number
853
Shelf Marks
- Brugge, Bibliotheek van het Grootseminarie, 158 / 189
Owners before c.1550
- Jan Crabbe (abbot (1457-1488) Duinenabdij (convent), near Bruges)
Commissioners
- Jan Crabbe (abbot (1457-1488) Duinenabdij (convent), near Bruges)
- Clergy: Prelat
- Gender : Man
Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Ecclesiastical
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1480 (c.1470-1480 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 194 leaves
- Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
- Height of text blocks : 445 mm
- Width of text blocks : 320 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 3
- Number of miniatures : 3
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Dresden Prayer Book
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (wooden boards, not original)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Valerius Maximus
Translators
- Simon de Hesdin + Nicolas de Gonesse
Contents
- 1 : Facta et dicta memorabilia (vol. 2/3)
Languages
- Latin
- French
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. 256, M Dresden Hours, c.1480, for Jan Crabbe
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 097, coul. pl. 17
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Dresden Hours
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], Fig. 49 (f.138), p.44
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, no. 02, p.102-106, bl-w ill. 84-90 (M Dresden)
Laurent Busine & Ludo Vandamme, with the collaboration of Noël Geirnaert & Sofie Leyts, Besloten wereld, open boeken. Middeleeuwse handschriften in dialoog met actuele kunst, Bruges 2002, no. 78b
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. 420
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 00198, 06925; Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File 88/181 (12 photos of 3 miniatures)