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1157  :  Hours

Number

1157


Shelf Marks

  • Brussels, KBR, IV 315

Owners before c.1550

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Commissioners

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Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Flanders
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1480
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489


Physical description

Measurements

  • 231 (1+6+215+8+1) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 125-149 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 141 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 100 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 13 large, 39 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 52
  • Number of miniatures : 52
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Dresden Prayer Book

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.p.659

Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 409, 412

Susan Groag Bell, ‘Medieval Women Book Owners: Arbiters of Lay Piety and Ambassadors of Culture’, Signs. Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 7 (1981-1982), 742-768, p. 768

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman