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2317  :  Hours (Rome) (Da Costa)

Number

2317


Shelf Marks

  • Duke of Albuquerque (19th c.)
  • GC Thomas

Owners before c.1550

  • Alvaro da Costa (chamberlain Manuel I of Portugal)

Commissioners

  • Fam. Sá (Portugal) / Manuel I of Portugal ? / John, son of Manuel I ?
    • Foreigner
    • Gender : Man

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : 1515 (c.1515 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1510 - 1519

Physical description

Measurements

  • 389 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 172 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 125 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 109
  • Number of miniatures : 109
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Simon Bening
  • M Prayer Books c.1500 (circle)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 1983 (green morocco) (the old binding was in green velvet, with silver furniture)
  • Dating : 1900-2000


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Rome) (Da Costa)

Languages

  • Latin

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. 10i (f.7v), p.79 (n.3)

Edmund Bowles, Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages / La pratique musicale au moyen âge, Geneva 1983, no. 011 (f.6v)

Bodo Brinkmann & Eberhard König, Simon Bening, Das Blumen-Stundenbuch, Clm. 23637. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich 1991: Bening, ill. 24 (f.380), 30 (f.151v)

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

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. 10 (f.4v), Fig. 44 (f.2v), p.38

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.040 (n10), 336 (n75) (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], p.480

Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 090 (f.11v), p.249 (f.6v)

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.0017, 21, 1669

Eugeen Schreurs (ed.), De schatkamer van Alamire: muziek en miniaturen uit Keizer Karels tijd (1500-1535), Leuven 1999, p. 59 (ill. f.129v)

Annemarieke Willemsen, Kinder delijt. Middeleeuws speelgoed in de Nederlanden, Nijmegen 1998, 163

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.405

Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James H. Marrow & Lucy Freeman Sandler (with the assistance of Elisabeth Moodey and Todor T. Petev), The Splendor of the Word. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, exhib. cat., New York-London-Turnhout 2005, see no. 66

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. 140

John Plummer, In August Company. The Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York 1993, no. 31

Roger S. Wieck, with essays by Lawrence R. Poos, Virginia Reinburg & John Plummer, Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, exhib. cat., New York-Baltimore 1988, no. 106 (ill. 19)

William M Voelkle , Illuminated Manuscripts: Treasures of the Pierpont Morgan Library New York, New York 1998, p. 054, 109, 162, 180, 195-199 (f.226v, 295v, 370, etc.)

Online Informations and images

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