Le bréviaire Grimani
Subtitle: reproduction photographique complete
By: publiée par Salomone Morpurgo et Scato de Vries; avec une introduction de Giulio Coggiola. --
Contributors: Biblioteca nazionale marciana
Publisher: A.W. Sijthof
Published: 1903
Place of publication: Leyde
Language: fre; lat
Subjects: Plants in art
Work titles: Grimani breviary
Notes: Added t.-p.: Le Bréviaire Grimani de la Bibliothèque S. Marc à Venise. Recherches d'histoire et d'art. Leyde : A.W. Sijtoff, 1908.

The miniatures in the Grimani Breviary are variously attributed to Gerard van der Meire, Alexander Bening, Gerard Horebout, Lievin van Lathem, Jan Grossaert and others. Cf. F. de Mély in Rev. de l'art anc. et moderne, t.25 (l909 Jan.-Juin) p. 81-92, 225-236...as noted in NUC cataloging for 1904-1910 ed.

The original, acquired by Cardinal Grimani in 1520 from the Duke of Milan's Chamberlain and kept in the Marciana Library in Venice, consists of 831 illuminated parchment leaves, cf. dealer.