1223 : Hours (Ghent?, Rome)
Number
1223
Shelf Marks
- Cambridge (MA), Houghton Library, lat 161
- AH Lea
Owners before c.1550
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Commissioners
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Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1450-1475
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 111 leaves
- Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
- Height of text blocks : 195 mm
- Width of text blocks : 131 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 19 large, 16 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 35
- Number of miniatures : 35
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Willem Vrelant (circle)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Hours (Ghent?, Rome)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant
Roger S. Wieck, Late medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, 1350-1525, in the Houghton Library, Cambridge (Mass.) 1983, no. 22 (ill. p. 47 (f.21))
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/4261851; http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/early_manuscripts/about.cfm
Responsable
Hanno Wijsman