1391 : Hours (Catalonia) (incomplete)
Number
1391
Shelf Marks
- Chicago, Newberry Library, 39 (+ Brussels, KBR, IV 35 + 375)
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 : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1470
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 094 leaves
- Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
- Height of text blocks : 178 mm
- Width of text blocks : 124 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 1
- Number of miniatures : 1
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Willem Vrelant
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (red morocco)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Hours (Catalonia) (incomplete)
Languages
- Other (Catelan + Latin)
Bibliography
Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 217, Vrelant (influence), text: Catalonia (ill. 46: f.1v)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant
Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996
Bernard Bousmanne, “Item a Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur”: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l’enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire, Turnhout 1997, p.278, Cat. no. 11 (Vrelant), Fig. 087, 105, 116, 170, 171 (f.127v), 175, 178, 180, 181
French and Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts from Chicago Collections, exhib. cat., Chicago 1969, no. 07 (1 ill.)
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File USA (photos of all 1 miniature)