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Johannes Crabbe

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as abbot of the same monastery. Crabbe therefore travelled to Rome to gain the support of the Pope. The case was settled when James of Portugal died, and Isabella accepted Crabbe as abbot in exchange for a large sum of money. While in Italy, Crabbe had made contacts with the
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which helped him finance the settlement. Though thus initially incurring large debts on behalf of the abbey, he managed in a short time to bring its finances into balance and reinvigorated the religious life there. In Italy he also encountered the dawning
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for Crabbe. At least 18 manuscripts from Crabbe's library are still extant, of which 11 are still in Bruges. They constitute "an important witness to the spread of modern Italian culture in Bruges from about 1470 onwards.".
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and joining the Ten Duinen Abbey. At one point he was secretary for the abbot of the monastery, and held an official position relating to the settlement of
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and other female monasteries through his role as vice-general of the abbot of
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As abbot, he worked to increase discipline in his own abbey as well as in
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Mmmonk (Medieval Monastic Manuscripts – Open – Network – Knowledge)
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Johannes Crabbe was born in a middle-class family in
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of Johannes Crabbe, in a manuscript from his library
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Coat of arms
abbot
Ten Duinen Abbey
imperial
bibliophile
Hulst
Cistercian Order
Veurne
Philip the Good
Isabella of Portugal
James of Portugal
Medici Bank
Renaissance
Quattrocento
Roosendael Abbey
Bijloke
nl
Citeaux
Mary of Burgundy
Emperor Maximilian I
illuminated manuscripts
coat of arms
Classical authors
Renaissance humanists
Bruges
bookbinder
Antonius van Gavere
Florentine
copyist

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