2124 : Hours ("of Isabelle the Catholic")
Number
2124
Shelf Marks
- Madrid, Bibliotheca del Palacio Real (Hours Vrelant)
Owners before c.1550
- Juana Enriquez
- Isabella of Castile
- Joan of Castile
- Emperor Charles V
Commissioners
- Juana Enriquez (mother of Ferdinand of Aragon)
- Foreigner
- Gender : Woman
Country
Spain
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1455 (before 1467)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1450 - 1459
Physical description
Measurements
- 372 (3+367+2) leaves
- Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
- Height of text blocks : 202 mm
- Width of text blocks : 135 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 72 miniatures, 24 calendar miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 96
- Number of miniatures : 96
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Willem Vrelant
- M Bruges Lepers Missal
- M Arsenal 575 ?
- other hand
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours ("of Isabelle the Catholic")
Languages
- Other (Catelan + Latin)
Bibliography
Otto Pächt & Ulrike Jenni, Holländische Schule (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 3), Vienna 1975, fig. 25, 26, 28
Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule I (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 6), Vienna 1983, fig. 105)
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.041 (of Isabella of Castile)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant
Bernard Bousmanne, “Item a Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur”: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l’enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire, Turnhout 1997, p.290 (M Vraie Cronique d'Escoce)
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.0321, 323, 338, 883
Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 142
Gregory Clark, Das Stundenbuch der Isabel Catolica. Vrelant Stundenbuch, Madrid 1997 [Facsimile edition]
J.D. Farquhar, Creation and Imitation. The Work of a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Illuminator, Fort Lauderdale 1976
J. Dominguez Bordona, Manuscritos con pituras. Notas para un inventario de los conservados en colecciones públicas y particulares de España, 2 vols., Madrid, 1933, no.1008 (3 ill.)