1381 : Hours (Sarum)
Number
1381
Shelf Marks
- Chatsworth, Duke of Devonshire (Hours Henry VII)
- George Wade (1717)
- Monseigneur le P… (magistrate of Bruges)
Owners before c.1550
- Henry VII of England
- Margaret, Queen of Scotland
Commissioners
- Henry VII of England, as gift for his daughter Margaret
- Foreigner
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Private
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : London + Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1490-1500 ?
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1490 - 1499
Physical description
Measurements
- 187 leaves
- Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
- Height of text blocks : 205 mm
- Width of text blocks : 140 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 23 large miniatures (and at least three missing), 36 small miniatures, 24 calendar scenes
- Total number of illustrations : 83
- Number of miniatures : 83
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Prayer Books c.1500
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern (C. Henry)
- Dating : modern
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Hours (Sarum)
Languages
- (no data)
Bibliography
Elizabeth Morrison, 'To Have and to Hold: Marriage, Politics, and Iconography in the Prayer Book of Margaret Tudor', Joyce Coleman, Marc Cruse, Katheryn A. Smith (eds.), The Social Life of Illumination. Manuscripts, Images, and Communities in the Late Middle Ages, Turnhout 2013, p. 473-504, p. 482-483
Carol Meale, ‘Patrons, Buyers and Owners: Book Production and Social Status, in Book Production and Publishing in Britain, 1375-1475’, Jeremy Griffiths & Derek Pearsall (eds.), Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375-1475 (Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History), Cambridge 1989, 201-238
Thompson, "The Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth", in : Studio, 144 (1952), p. ?-?, p. 169