In Walters Art Museum W.189 Willem Vrelant worked with the Master of the Black Prayerbook to create the elaborate color-block foliate borders and full-page grisaille miniatures that fill the book. Even the KL at the top of each month of the calendar are carefully done in grisaille, backgrounded with brown that was hightened with a spray of gold spots.
The calendar entries are in Dutch, though the rest of the book is in Latin. There are only 124 saints in the calendar, mostly the usual ones. There are a few unusual saints, one is St. Brendan, written as “brandaris”, on May 16(see f.5v below). There are actually two Sts. Brendan on that day, and it’s unclear which is meant. Later in that month, May 22, is an unidentified St. Anthonis.
(DB Id: 210) 
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