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195  :  Prayer Book (Beguines, Diest)

Number

195


Shelf Marks

  • unknown location
  • Sotheby's 2002-12-03, no. 15
  • Sotheby's 2001-06-19, no. R.32
  • JR Ritman
  • Tenschert, cat. XXVII, no. 24
  • Kortrijk, Carlo De Poortere, A 6

Owners before c.1550

  • (woman: beguine, Diest)

Commissioners

  • (woman: beguine, Diest)
    • Clergy
    • Gender : Woman

Country

unknown


Ownership Category

Private

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Ghent ? / Lille ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1490
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1490 - 1499

Physical description

Measurements

  • 173 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 179 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 120 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 35
  • Number of miniatures : 19
  • Number of historiated initials : 16
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Maximilian (f.15v)
  • M Golden Fleece Vienna and Copenhagen ??

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Prayer Book (Beguines, Diest)

Languages

  • Latin
  • Dutch

Bibliography

Annemarieke Willemsen, Kinder delijt. Middeleeuws speelgoed in de Nederlanden, Nijmegen 1998, 103, 185

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.469

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, no. 24 (9 ill.)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman