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2054  :  Hours-Prayer Book (Rome)

Number

2054


Shelf Marks

  • London, Sir John Soane Museum, 4
  • E. Knight
  • Joan of Aragon
  • W. Wilhelm

Owners before c.1550

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Commissioners

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Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Ghent / Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1512-1525 (after 1512) (after 1498)
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1510 - 1519

Physical description

Measurements

  • 184 (179+5) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 209 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 142 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 78 miniatures, 12 calendar miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 90
  • Number of miniatures : 90
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Soane Hours
  • Gerard Horenbout / M James IV of Scotland (influence) ?
  • M Davidscenes Grimani (influence) ?

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 18th c. (red velvet)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours-Prayer Book (Rome)

Languages

  • (no data)

Bibliography

Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, Paris 1914, ill. 29-39 (f.12, 15v, 16, 23v, 65v, 75, 112v, 113v, 115v, 117v, 136v)

G.I. Lieftinck, Boekverluchters uit de omgeving van Maria van Bourgondie ca. 1475 - ca. 1485 (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Klasse der Letteren, 66), 2 vols., Brussels 1969, p.117

J.P. Harthan, The Book of Hours, with a historical survey and commentary, New York, 1977 [available in French: L'âge d'or des livres d'heures, Brussels 1977], p.149-152 (8 ill.)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Horenbout ?

Bodo Brinkmann, Offizium der Madonna der Codex Vat. Lat. 10293 und verwandte kleine Stundenbücher mit Architekturbordüren (Kommentarband bei Faksimileausgabe), Zurich 1992, ill. 46 (f.18), 47 (f.50)

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.177-180, 251 (n22), text ill. 53-54 (M David Scenes)

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.0454, 459

Annemarieke Willemsen, Kinder delijt. Middeleeuws speelgoed in de Nederlanden, Nijmegen 1998, 045

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.389

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. 138

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman