1539 : Rosarium (Chester Beatty)
Number
1539
Shelf Marks
- Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, Western 99
Owners before c.1550
- Isabella of Portugal (wife of Emperor Charles V)
- Philips II of Spain(1539) ?
Commissioners
- Isabella of Portugal (gift from Emperor Charles V ?)
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Man
Country
Ireland
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1540-1545 (c.1530 ?) (before 1545)
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1540 - 1549
Physical description
Measurements
- 059 (3+42+2+12) leaves
- Size categories of height : 100-124 mm
- Height of text blocks : 124 mm
- Width of text blocks : 084 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 33
- Number of miniatures : 33
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Simon Bening
- other hand
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 16th c. (Spain)
- Dating : 1550-1600
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Rosarium (Chester Beatty)
Languages
- Other (Spanish + Latin)
Bibliography
Bodo Brinkmann & Eberhard König, Simon Bening, Das Blumen-Stundenbuch, Clm. 23637. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich 1991: Bening
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: S Bening
Alain Arnould & Jean Michel Massing, Splendours of Flanders. Late Medieval Art in Cambridge Collections, Cambridge 1993, no. 29
Bodo Brinkmann, Offizium der Madonna der Codex Vat. Lat. 10293 und verwandte kleine Stundenbücher mit Architekturbordüren (Kommentarband bei Faksimileausgabe), Zurich 1992, p.079 (n.75)
Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], p. 032
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.361 (n54) (Bening)
Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], Fig. 8.31 (f.44v-45)
Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 081 (f.14)
Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.0007, 12, 1023
Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, no. 156
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens (ed.), Bruges and the Renaissance. Memling to Pourbus, Bruges 1998 [also published in Dutch and French], no. 76
Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 542
Judith Anne Testa, The Beatty rosarium. A manuscript with miniatures by Simon Bening, Doornspijk 1986 [Facsimile edition]