2423 : Hours (Rome)
Number
2423
Shelf Marks
- Oxford, BL, Douce 112
Owners before c.1550
- Maria de Medici (Queen of France)
Commissioners
- (woman)
- Gender : Woman
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Johannes/Hanskin de Bomalia (Dominican, Bruges)
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders
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Date
- Date details : c.1515-1520 (c.1500 ?)
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1510 - 1519
Physical description
Measurements
- 173 leaves
- Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
- Height of text blocks : 204 mm
- Width of text blocks : 137 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 45 miniatures, 2 historiated initials, 24 historiated margins
- Total number of illustrations : 71
- Number of miniatures : 69
- Number of historiated initials : 2
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Davidscenes Grimani
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (embroided red velvet over wooden boards)
- Dating : Unknown
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (Rome)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 098a+b (f.166, f.164)
Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, Paris 1914, ill. 38 (f.92)
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. 07b (f.36)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Dresden Hours
Bodo Brinkmann, Offizium der Madonna der Codex Vat. Lat. 10293 und verwandte kleine Stundenbücher mit Architekturbordüren (Kommentarband bei Faksimileausgabe), Zurich 1992, p.036f, p.77, p.102 (M Davidscenes Grimani)
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.015 (n32), 179 ( n109), 323 (M David Scenes)
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. 243 (f.21), p.245 (f.151)
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.375, 377
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. 137, p.383-5 (M Davidscenes)
Otto Pächt and J.J.G. Alexander, Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 3 vols., Oxford 1966-1973, vol. 1: 396 (3 ill. f.1v, 16v, 151)