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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

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • 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