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Nicolas Spierinc was a Nicolas Spierinc
. J. Paul Getty Trust. Retrieved 2 December 2017
Nicolas Spierinc was a Flemish
Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium; ...
illuminator and scribe active in late 1400s. Works attributed to him include the lettering of the Hours of Mary of Burgundy
The Hours of Mary of Burgundy (german: Stundenbuch der Maria von Burgund)Inglis, I is a book of hours, a form of devotional book for lay-people, completed in Flanders around 1477, and now in the National Library of Austria. It was probably commi ...
. He was a student of medicine at the University at Louvain, later changing his profession to a scribe and illuminator, moving to Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...
, where he found success and wealth. He is known to have collaborated with both Lieven van Lathem
Lieven van Lathem (1430–1493), was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator.
Career
He was born in Ghent.Master of Mary of Burgundy
The Master of Mary of Burgundy was a Flemish illuminated manuscript, illuminator, painter and draughtsman active between 1469-1483 in Flanders, probably in Ghent. His notname is derived from two books of hours attributed to him, the Vienna Hours o ...
on prayer books of hours
The book of hours is a Christian devotional book used to pray the canonical hours. The use of a book of hours was especially popular in the Middle Ages and as a result, they are the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscrip ...
.de Schryver, 77. J. Paul Getty Trust. Retrieved 2 December 2017
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Sources
* de Schryver, Antoine. ''The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold''. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2008. * Kren, Thomas. ''Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands in the J. Paul Getty Museum''. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2010. {{DEFAULTSORT:Spierinc, Nicolas Flemish artists (before 1830) Medieval European scribes