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1877  :  Hours (Rome)(of Joan of Castile)

Number

1877


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Add. 18852
  • William Boone
  • Rev. John Tobin (Liscard, Cheshire)
  • Sir John Tobin (Liverpool)
  • Evans
  • Philip A. Hanrott

Owners before c.1550

  • Joan of Castile (wife of Philip the Fair and daughter of Isabella of Castile)

Commissioners

    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Woman

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Ghent / Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : 1496 ? (1496-1506)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1490 - 1499

Physical description

Measurements

  • 222 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 100-124 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 108 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 075 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations : 85
  • Number of miniatures : 78
  • Number of historiated initials : 7
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

"qui vouldra" ; "je le veus"

Miniaturists

  • M Davidscenes Grimani (and his Chief Associate in the Calendar)
  • M Vat.Lat 10293

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 17th c. (red velvet)
  • Dating : 1600-1700


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Rome)(of Joan of Castile)

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 086a-c (f.26, f.176, f.417)

Patrick De Winter, ‘A Book of Hours of Queen Isabel la Católica’, Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 68 (1981), 342-427, Fig. 041 (f.323)

Thomas Kren, ‘Flemish Manuscript Illumination 1475-1550’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts. Treasures from the British Library, New York-Malibu-London 1983, 1-86, cat. no. 07, Fig. f.36, f.184, f.5v

Patricia Basing, Trades and crafts in medieval manuscripts, London 1990, ill. 12, 15, IX

Amalia Sarriá Rueda, with the collaboration of Claudine Lemaire, Les rois bibliophiles, exhib. cat., Brussels 1985 [also published in Dutch: De Koningen-Bibliofielen, Brussels 1985], no. 059 (ill. p.89 (f.25v-26))

Bodo Brinkmann, Offizium der Madonna der Codex Vat. Lat. 10293 und verwandte kleine Stundenbücher mit Architekturbordüren (Kommentarband bei Faksimileausgabe), Zurich 1992, Group M Davidscenes Grimani with architectural borders (ill. 13 (f.287v,288), 15 (f.233v), 16 (f.1v), 17 (f.253v)

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. 031

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.180, 322f (M David Scenes and First Associate)

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. 8.24 (f.287v-288)

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. 079 (f.201v (f.13v?)) (as M 232)

Anne-Margreet As-Vijvers, Randversieringen in Gents-Brugse manuscripten.De Meester van de Davidscènes en andere verluchters als specialisten in margedecoratie, doctoral dissertation, University of Amsterdam 2002, (part of corpus)

Elisabeth Antoine et al., Sur la terre comme au ciel. Jardins d’occident à la fin du Moyen Age, exhib. cat., Paris 2002, p.174 (ill.)

Brigitte Dekeyser & Jan Van der Stock, Manuscripts in Transition. Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002) (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 15), Leuven 2005, p.384-385, 389

Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James H. Marrow & Lucy Freeman Sandler (with the assistance of Elisabeth Moodey and Todor T. Petev), The Splendor of the Word. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, exhib. cat., New York-London-Turnhout 2005, see no. 65

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. 114

Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.044-45

Anne-Margreet As-Vijvers, ‘Manuscript Production in a Carmelite Convent: The Case of Cornelia van Wulfschkercke’, Sandra Hindman & James H. Marrow (eds.), Books of Hours Reconsidered, London-Turnhout 2013, p. 279-296, 11.13

Kate Challis, "Marginalized jewels: the depiction of jewellery in the borders of Flemish devotional manuscripts", Margaret M. Manion & Bernard James Muir (eds.), The Art of the Book. Its Place in Medieval Worship, Exeter 1998, p. 253-289 (ill. f.243, 319)

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: no. XX, p. 58

J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts, London 1911-, vol. IV, no. 47 (f.287v-288)

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 097-100

Online Informations and images

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Responsable

Hanno Wijsman