Mayer van den Bergh Breviary

Stylistically it contains both traditional elements and attempts at new treatment of subject matter, especially in the Psalter.

[2] Based on other details, e.g. references to saints particularly venerated in Florence, it has instead been suggested that the book was originally made for an Italian patron.

the Psalter and the Temporale, and following a hiatus (possibly as a consequence of a shift of patronage) the breviary was finished.

It appears in a private collection in Vienna towards the end of the 19th century; it may have been bought by an English dealer in 1886.

The Master of the First Prayer Book of Maximilian was the leading artist, supported by five other members of the same workshop.

[8] However, even the more novel miniatures draw on existing examples, e.g. designs for stained glass windows by Hugo van der Goes or, though differently modelled, examples from an illustrated Bible in the library of Raphael de Mercatellis.