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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

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Flanders (Ghent / Bruges)
  • 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