2545 : Hours (Cambrai) "Boussu"
Number
2545
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BA, 1185
- Paulmy
Owners before c.1550
- Isabelle de Lalaing (wife of Pierre de Hennin, seigneur de Boussu)
Commissioners
- Isabelle de Lalaing (wife of Pierre de Hennin, seigneur de Boussu)
- Nobility
- Gender : Woman
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Hainaut
- Towns : Mons
- Details : Mons ? (Hainaut)
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Date
- Date details : c.1490-1500 (c.1490 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1490 - 1499
Physical description
Measurements
- 378 leaves
- Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
- Height of text blocks : 160 mm
- Width of text blocks : 112 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 26 large miniatures, 38 small miniatures, 9 historiated initials, 2 marginal scenes, 24 small calendar miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 99
- Number of miniatures : 64
- Number of historiated initials : 35
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
"Vous seul"
Miniaturists
- M Antoine Rolin
- Simon Marmion (influence)
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 (Cambrai) "Boussu"
Languages
- Latin
- French
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.56 (ill. 77-78: f.53v, 54, 187, 196)
Anne-Marie Legaré, ‘The Master of Antoine Rolin. A Hainaut Illuminator Working in the Orbit of Simon Marmion’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and the Visions of Tondal. Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections (June 21-24, 1990), Los Angeles 1992, 209-222, ill. p.86-87
Anne-Marie Legaré, Le livre des échecs amoureux, Paris 1991, no. 16, M Antoine Rolin
Robert Born, Les Lalaing. Une grande “mesnie” hennuyère, de l’aventure d’Outrée au siècle des gueux (1096-1600), Brussels 1986, p.100, 101, 102
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.219, 221, 223, 229f, text ill. 63 (M Antoine Rolin)
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.0256, 278, 281, 292-293
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.392-393, 397
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, p.407-8
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.406, 516
Anne-Marie Legaré, ‘Livres d’heures, livres de femmes: quelques exemples en Hainaut’, Eulalie. Médiathèques, librairies et lecteurs en Nord-Pas de Calais, 1 (1998), 53-68
Online Informations and images
Digisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55007801k
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 16 photos