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2417  :  Prayer Book (offices for a woman)

Number

2417


Shelf Marks

  • Oxford, BL, Douce 12

Owners before c.1550

  • (woman, Italian market, Cathusian connection)

Commissioners

  • (woman, Italian market, Cathusian connection)
    • Foreigner
    • Gender : Woman

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Ghent / Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1495-1510
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1500 - 1509

Physical description

Measurements

  • (no data) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 075-099 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 098 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 071 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations :
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Davidscenes Grimani (workshop)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Prayer Book (offices for a woman)

Languages

  • Other (Italian + 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, p.059 (n.13) (Prb., architectural borders)

Bodo Brinkmann, Offizium der Madonna der Codex Vat. Lat. 10293 und verwandte kleine Stundenbücher mit Architekturbordüren (Kommentarband bei Faksimileausgabe), Zurich 1992, Group M Davidscenes Grimani with architectural borders (M Davidscenes Grimani, Italian patron)

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.378 (n21)

Annemarieke Willemsen, Kinder delijt. Middeleeuws speelgoed in de Nederlanden, Nijmegen 1998, 102, 152, 184

Otto Pächt and J.J.G. Alexander, Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 3 vols., Oxford 1966-1973, vol. 1: 372 (ill. f 96v-97)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman