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1807  :  Hours (Utrecht)

Number

1807


Shelf Marks

  • Liège, BU, Wittert 32
  • Adrien Wittert (1823-1903)

Owners before c.1550

  • Fam. Borselle (bastard ?)

Commissioners

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Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Date
    • Date details : c.1440 (c.1450-1500 ??)
    • Half centuries : 1400-1449
    • Decade : 1440 - 1449

Physical description

Measurements

  • 151 (2+149) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 200 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 141 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 21
  • Number of miniatures : 21
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :

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 (Utrecht)

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. 059 (pl. 210)

La miniature hollandaise. Le grand siècle de l’enluminure du livre dans les Pays-Bas septentrionaux, exhib. cat., Brussels 1971, no. 18

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.0589

Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.270

Joseph Brassinne , Catalogue des manuscrits le´gue´s a` la Bibliote`que de l'Universite´ de Liège par le baron Adrien Wittert, Liège 1910, no. 32

Carmélia Opsomer-Halleux, with the collaboration of Frédéric Bauden, Trésors manuscrits de l’Université de Liège, exhib. cat., Brussels 1989, no. 46

Online Informations and images

Information: http://www.cicweb.be/fr/manuscrit.php?id=286

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 02119-2120

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman