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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

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Paris + Bruges
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman