William, de Brailes, active 13th century

LC control no.	n 92049528
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	William, de Brailes, active 13th century *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Brailes, William de, active 13th century De Brailes, William, active 13th century William, de Brailes, 13th cent. William, de Brailles, active 13th century Brailles, William de, active 13th century Brailes, W. de (William de), active 13th century W., de Brail' (William, de Brailes), active 13th century Brail', W. de (William de Brailes), active 13th century
Beginning date	12 1230~
Ending date	1260~
Associated country	England
Associated place	London (England)
Located	Oxford (England)
Address	Catte Street Oxford England
Place of birth	Warwickshire (England) Brailes (England : Civil parish)
Field of activity	Painting Illumination of books and manuscripts Manuscript design Book industries and trade Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic Bible--Illustrations Books of hours
Profession or occupation	Painters Illuminators Book designers Clerks regular Manuscript designer Clerk in minor orders
Found in	Donovan, Claire. The de Brailes Hours, 1991: page 5 (William de Brailes, illuminator of Oxford) page 7 (W. de Brailes; William de Brailles; de Brailes) pages 9-21(the designer and painter of the very first book of hours; in it, records his name, w. de brail', in French caption; paints self-portrait in 3 historiated initials; professional illuminator; very distinctive style as artist and as designer; in one of a series of pictorial pages of biblical scenes, name recorded with Latin inscription; property records supply Christian name William and location of house; a well-established property-holding burgess; de Brailes and his assistants produced books in his house (now buried beneath All Souls College) in Catte Street, an early centre making manuscripts for sale and to order; a commercial book trade; highly illuminated liturgical manuscripts, tailor-made for their patrons, mostly laypeople, well-to-do and literate burgesses, also students and teachers; manuscripts could be adapted to suit needs of patrons using them outside Oxford; among first manuscripts illuminated by William de Brailes, a bible with strong Dominican connections, now in the Bodleian; adapted small format of bibles intended for private study for the book of hours, designed from the first with laity in mind; psalters had larger format; the largest was Oxford New College Psalter) VIAF, 11 September 2019 (authorized access points in VIAF cluster: William de Brailes, William, de Brailes, active 13th century, William de Brailes English manuscript illuminator, William de Brailes (English illuminator, active ca. 1230); VIAF ID: 42640982 (Personal)) <http://viaf.org/viaf/42640982> Oxford art online, 11 September 2019 (William de Brailes; fl c. 1230-60; English illuminator; cited in 6 documents (c. 1230-60) relating to Oxford; he lived in Catte Street among other professionals engaged in book production; most probable that may be identified with illuminator W. de Brailes, whose name, w. de brail', appears in 2 manuscripts associated with Oxford: name twice in Book of Hours (c. 1240; London, BL, Add. MS. 49999) -- w. de brail' qui me depeint -- and Last Judgement miniature of the 6 leaves from a Psalter in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (c. 1240; MS. 330, leaf 3) -- w. de brail' me fecit; de Brailes's contribution was to luxury trade, continuing tradition of illumination already established in Oxford; his signed manuscripts are substantially, if not wholly, own work; also collaborated with others; for certain projects, evidently the chief artist and designer, as in Psalter (c. 1240-50; Oxford, New College, MS. 322): painted most historiated initials and certain complete folios, but left much of the minor decoration to others; created small manuscripts, following trend towards portable books) Oxford dictionary of national biography online, 11 September 2019 (Brailes, William de (fl c. 1230-1260); manuscript artist, whose signature, W. de Brail', appears in 2 illustrated manuscripts of the mid-13th century, is almost certainly identifiable as the William de Brailes named in 5 Oxford property deeds of c.1230-1260; art historians have concluded that William de Brailes was head of workshop of manuscript artists based at his tenement in Catte Street; first workshop to which name and definite location can be assigned and whose products can be identified; name implies that came originally from Upper or Lower Brailes (Warwickshire), near Shipston-on-Stour; tonsured, probably clerk in minor orders, had a wife; Brailes and assistants decorated about dozen surviving manuscripts, including several Bibles; a psalter; sets of illustrated leaves probably originally belonging to 2 psalters; and earliest surviving fully illustrated English book of hours; also decorated 1 page of psalter possibly made in London, may therefore have spent part of career away from Oxford; may have occasionally worked as wall painter, or at least supplied designs for wall painting) Wikipedia, 11 September 2019: William de Brailes (William de Brailes (active c. 1230-c. 1260); English Early Gothic manuscript illuminator, presumably born in Brailes, Warwickshire; illuminated Bibles, psalters, a Book of Hours, and secular texts, may also have been a scribe; some stylistic features of transition from Romanesque to mature Gothic; most manuscripts have page size similar to standard modern paperback, reflect trend towards personal ownership of books by well off but not extravagant members of both clergy and laity) Wikidata, 11 September 2019 (William de Brailes (Q8020766); also known as: William De Brailes; description: English manuscript illuminator; sex or gender: male; country of citizenship: England; date of birth: 13. century (from French Wikipedia); floruit: 1230-1260 (from French Wikipedia); date of death: 1260 (from German Wikipedia); occupation: illuminator; work location: Oxford) <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8020766>
Not found in	DNB, 1917.
Associated language	fro lat