1937 : Hours (Paris, Rome)
Number
1937
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Egerton 2045
Owners before c.1550
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Commissioners
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Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Paris + Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1460-1470; c.1480-1485
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 347 leaves
- Size categories of height : 075-099 mm
- Height of text blocks : 088 mm
- Width of text blocks : 065 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 18
- Number of miniatures : 18
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
"Luxembourg" (Charles de Luxembourg,d.1530); "Brandenburgk" (Albert Frederick of Brandenburg?); "Magdalene de Cleves"; "Sibille de Cleves 1579" (daughters of the Duke of Cleves); Diane de Dompmartin (wife of Philippe de Croy, Marquis d'Havré, 1580)
Miniaturists
- M François
- M Dresden Prayer Book (6 miniatures)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (red velvet (old) over wooden boards, clasps)
- Dating : Unknown
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Hours (Paris, Rome)
Languages
- Latin
- French
Bibliography
Eric G. Millar, Souvenir de l’exposition de manuscrits français à peintures organisée à la Grenville Library (British Museum) en janvier-mars 1932. Étude concernant les 65 manuscrits exposés (Publications de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits a` peintures, 17), Paris 1933, no. 56 (ill. 56: f.115v-116)
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, p.147
Bodo Brinkmann, ‘Neues vom Meister der Lübecker Bibel’, Jahrbuch der berliner Museen, 29 (1987-1988), 123-161, Fig. 08 (f.260v)
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, no. 23, p.261-264, bl-w ill. 246-251, coul. ill. 39 (M Dresden, M François)
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.432, 451
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts, London 1911-, vol. I, no. 31 (f.172v)
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 069-70
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8515&CollID=28&NStart=2045