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1838  :  Hours (of Queen Catharine)

Number

1838


Shelf Marks

  • Lisboa, Museu National de Arte Antiga, inv. 13

Owners before c.1550

  • Catherine of Austria (sister Charles V, wife of John III of Portugal)

Commissioners

  • Damiao de Gois, as gift for Catherine of Austria (sister Charles V, wife of John III of Portugal)
    • Foreigner
    • Gender : Man

Country

Portugal


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1530-1544 (before 1544)
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1530 - 1539

Physical description

Measurements

  • (no data) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 100-124 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 117 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 086 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations :
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Gerard Horenbout / M James IV of Scotland
  • Simon Bening ??

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 1755 (blue velvet, Jozeph I of Portugal)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours (of Queen Catharine)

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, Paris 1930, ill. 33

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: S Bening

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. 038

Annemarieke Willemsen, Kinder delijt. Middeleeuws speelgoed in de Nederlanden, Nijmegen 1998, 008, 36, 37, 53, 76, 89, 115, 116, 165, 166

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, p.366-7

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman