2537 : Hours (Brittany, France) "du maitre aux fleurs" (vol. 1)
Number
2537
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BA, 638
- Paulmy (+ Paris, BA, 639)
Owners before c.1550
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Commissioners
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Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges (+ Ghent ?)
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Date
- Date details : c.1480-1485
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 116 leaves
- Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
- Height of text blocks : 224 mm
- Width of text blocks : 157 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 80
- Number of miniatures : 17
- Number of historiated initials : 63
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Dresden Prayer Book (calendar)
- M Prayer Books c.1500 (31 miniatures)
- Simon Marmion (follower) ?
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (red morocco)
- Dating : Unknown
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Hours (Brittany, France) "du maitre aux fleurs" (vol. 1)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Henry Martin & Philippe Lauer, Les principaux manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal à Paris (Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits a` peintures, 11), Paris 1929, p.59 (ill. 84: f.35v, 38v)Durrieu 1921, no. 081 (f.11v, f.12)
Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 625a
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Dresden Hours, M Louthe, M Prayer Books c.1500
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, no. 37, p.013, 305-307, bl-w ill. 308-310 (M Dresden, M Prayer Books c.1500)
Elisabeth Antoine et al., Sur la terre comme au ciel. Jardins d’occident à la fin du Moyen Age, exhib. cat., Paris 2002, no. 99
Jean-Luc Deuffic, Blogpost dated 14 March 2011, on http://blog.pecia.fr/
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. 409
Online Informations and images
Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55008559f
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File France 02a (42 photos); Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 5 photos