1227 : Hours (Rome)
Number
1227
Shelf Marks
- Cambridge (MA), Houghton Library, Richardson 9
- Fam. Merlemont
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 : Flanders (Ghent / Bruges)
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Date
- Date details : c.1500-1520
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1510 - 1519
Physical description
Measurements
- 187 leaves
- Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
- Height of text blocks : 171 mm
- Width of text blocks : 124 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 17 large, 50 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 67
- Number of miniatures : 67
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Maximilian (circle) ?
- M Prayer Books c.1500 (circle) ?
- M Dresden Prayer Book (calendar) (influence) ??
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 (Rome)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Dresden Hours
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.015 (n32)
Roger S. Wieck, Late medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, 1350-1525, in the Houghton Library, Cambridge (Mass.) 1983, no. 27 (ill. p. 57 (f.54v))
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/16031964; http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/early_manuscripts/about.cfm
Responsable
Hanno Wijsman