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1222 : Hours (Rome)

Number

1222

Shelf Marks

Cambridge (MA), Houghton Library, lat 132
John Batterson Stetson (1884-1952)
Fernando Palha (d. 1897)
Fam. Diogo de Mello

Owners before c.1550

Commissioners

Country

USA

Ownership Category

Public

Origin

Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders
Date
- Date details : c.1440-1460
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1450 - 1459

Physical description

Measurements

100 leaves
Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
Height of text blocks : 195 mm
Width of text blocks : 140 mm

Illustrations

Information on the illustrations : 12 large, 12 small miniatures
Total number of illustrations : 24
Number of miniatures : 24
Number of historiated initials :
Number of grisailles :
Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

M Gold Scrolls (circle)

Material

Parchment

Binding

Description : c.1570 (France)
Dating : 1550-1600

Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

Translators

1 : Hours (Rome)

Languages

Latin
French

Bibliography

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Gold Scrolls

Roger S. Wieck, Late medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, 1350-1525, in the Houghton Library, Cambridge (Mass.) 1983, p.109 (ill. 28)

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/4145768; Description and images: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/early_manuscripts/about.cfm

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman