1278 : Hours (Ghent? / Utrecht?, Rome)
Number
1278
Shelf Marks
- Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 143
Owners before c.1550
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Commissioners
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Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent ? (+ NN ?)
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Date
- Date details : c.1470 / c.1455-1460
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 301 leaves
- Size categories of height : 100-124 mm
- Height of text blocks : 101 mm
- Width of text blocks : 065 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 47
- Number of miniatures : 30
- Number of historiated initials : 17
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Lieven van Lathem (and assistent in inititials)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c.: red velvet over wooden boards
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Hours (Ghent? / Utrecht?, Rome)
Languages
- Latin
- Dutch
Bibliography
Alexander Willem Byvanck & G.J. Hoogewerff, Noord-Nederlandsche miniaturen in handschriften der 14e, 15e en 16e eeuwen, 3 vols., The Hague 1922-1925, no. 149 (pl. 179)
Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule II (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 7), Vienna 1990, fig. 119 (p.110-111)
Alain Arnould & Jean Michel Massing, Splendours of Flanders. Late Medieval Art in Cambridge Collections, Cambridge 1993, no. 19 (ill. f.226, 250v-251, 216)
Eva Wolf, Das Bild in der spätmittelalterlichen Buchmalerei: das Sachsenheim-Gebetbuch im Werk Lievin van Lathems, Hildesheim 1996, cat. no. 03 (2 ill., Lathem and collaborator)
Nigel Morgan & Stella Panayotova, with the assistance of Martine Meuwese, Elisabeth New, Suzanne Reynolds, Hanna Vorholt, Andrea Worm, A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part I: The Low Countries, Germania, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary, 2 vols., Cambridge 2009, no. 182
Francis Wormald & Phyllis M. Giles, A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum acquired between 1895 and 1979 (excluding the McClean Collection), 2 vols., Cambridge 1982, no. 109
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File Grande-Bretagne 1 (9 photos of 18 margin-miniatures)