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2386  :  Hours (York/Lincoln?, Sarum?) ("Queen Mary's Hours")

Number

2386


Shelf Marks

  • Oxford, BL, Auct D inf. 2. 13 (S. C. 3083)

Owners before c.1550

  • Mary I Stuart, Queen of England

Commissioners

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Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Details : SN / NN (borders: England)
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1460 (c.1470 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1460 - 1469

Physical description

Measurements

  • 230 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 209 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 151 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 24
  • Number of miniatures : 24
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Evert van Soudenbalch
  • Willem Vrelant (circle)
  • M Beady(Narrow) Eyes (influence)
  • M Queen Mary's Hours

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : modern (with fragments of the older binding)
  • Dating : Modern binding


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours (York/Lincoln?, Sarum?) ("Queen Mary's Hours")

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Alexander Willem Byvanck & G.J. Hoogewerff, Noord-Nederlandsche miniaturen in handschriften der 14e, 15e en 16e eeuwen, 3 vols., The Hague 1922-1925, no. 118 (pl. 15, 16, 37, 38, 74)

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. 046, 52 (p.082): M Evert van Soudenbalch

Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996

Otto Pächt and J.J.G. Alexander, Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 3 vols., Oxford 1966-1973, vol. 1: 221 (ill. f.94v)

French and Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts from Chicago Collections, exhib. cat., Chicago 1969, no. 05

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman