1896 : Hours (Rome) "Sforza"
Number
1896
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Add. 34294
Owners before c.1550
- Bona Sforza
- Emperor Charles V
Commissioners
- Bona Sforza (widow Galazeo Sforza)
- Foreigner
- Gender : Woman
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Milan + Ghent
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Date
- Date details : c.1490; 1517-1521
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1510 - 1519
Physical description
Measurements
- 348 leaves
- Size categories of height : 125-149 mm
- Height of text blocks : 131 mm
- Width of text blocks : 093 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 66
- Number of miniatures : 66
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Giovanni Pietro Birago (first campaign)
- Gerard Horenbout / M James IV of Scotland (second campaign: 6 miniatures)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (red velvet, silver clasps, London(?))
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (Rome) "Sforza"
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 101a-d (f.10v, 97, 104v, 124)
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. 15, pl. 18 (f.189v), Fig. f.61, f.97, f.124, f.82v
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (ed.), Les manuscrits enluminés des comtes et ducs de Savoie, Turin 1991, no. I-29
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Horenbout, ill.. 102-104, coul. ill. 15 (f.4,61,257v,189v)
Joachim M. Plotzek, Katharina Winnekes & Stefan Kraus, with the collaboration of Ulrike Surmann, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Liturgie und Andacht im Mittelalter, exhib. cat., Cologne-Stuttgart 1992, p.286 (Horenbout: 16 miniatures)
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], Fig. 25 (f.189v), p.32
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.016 (n36), 328 (n53) (Horenbout)
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.1674-1681
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.350, 354, 401, 404-405
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. 129
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.204
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library, Toronto-London 1997, no. 209 (ill. f.12v)
Mark Evans, The Sforza Hours, London 1992 [images of all miniatures]
Alphonse Bayot, Les Manuscrits de provenance savoisienne dans la bibliothèque de Bourgogne, … 1909, no. 16
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts, London 1911-, vol. III, no. 42-44 (f.209v, 88, 177v)
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 120-126
Online Informations and images
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