2104 : Hours-Prayer Book (of Albrecht of Brandenburg)
Number
2104
Shelf Marks
- Los Angeles, JP Getty Museum, Ludwig IX 19 (acc. 83.ML.115)
- H.P. Kraus, In Retrospect, no. 97
- Martin Bodmer
- Wien, Anselm Solomon von Rottschild
- Pommersfelden, Count von Schönborn
Owners before c.1550
- Albrecht of Brandenburg (1490-1545, cardinal)
Commissioners
- Albrecht of Brandenburg (1490-1545, cardinal)
- Foreigner
- Gender : Man
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : 1525-1530 (c.1525 ?)
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1520 - 1529
Physical description
Measurements
- 337 leaves
- Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
- Height of text blocks : 168 mm
- Width of text blocks : 115 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations :
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Simon Bening (signed: SB)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (red velvet over wooden boards)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours-Prayer Book (of Albrecht of Brandenburg)
Languages
- German
Bibliography
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, Fig. 15j (f.36v)
Bodo Brinkmann & Eberhard König, Simon Bening, Das Blumen-Stundenbuch, Clm. 23637. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich 1991: Bening, ill. 28 (f.43v), 38 (f.97v), 39 (f.69v)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: S Bening, ill.. 112 (f.77v)
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. 50 (f.7v-8), p.46
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), 361 (n54) (Bening)
Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], Fig. 8.84 (f.123v)
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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. 145
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens (ed.), Bruges and the Renaissance. Memling to Pourbus, Bruges 1998 [also published in Dutch and French], no. 73
Alfons Biermann, ‘Die Miniaturenhandschriften des Kardinals Albrecht von Brandenburg’, Aachener Kunstblätter, 46 (1975), 15-310
Anton von Euw & Joachim M. Plotzek, Die Handschriften der Sammlung Ludwig, 4 vols., Cologne 1979-1985, no. IX 19 (71 ill.)
Online Informations and images
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1402
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 00503