256 : Hours (Rome, Paris) (of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York)
Number
256
Shelf Marks
- unknown location
- Northwick Park
- Christie's 1965-05-26/27, no. 195
- London, Ronald A Lee
Owners before c.1550
Commissioners
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Couple
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Couple
Country
unknown
Ownership Category
Private
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1450 (1468-1477 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1450 - 1459
Physical description
Measurements
- 241 (5+231+5) leaves
- Size categories of height : 225-249 mm
- Height of text blocks : 233 mm
- Width of text blocks : 159 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 34 large, 24 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 58
- Number of miniatures : 58
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Willem Vrelant
- Lieven van Lathem (one miniature)
- Eyckian Master
- M Arsenal 575
- M Buchanan E 5
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern (cuir brun)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (Rome, Paris) (of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York)
Languages
- Latin
- French
Bibliography
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Van Eyck
Bernard Bousmanne, “Item a Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur”: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l’enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire, Turnhout 1997, p.288 (Vrelant, M Fastolf)
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.0883
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.188
Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 64
J.D. Farquhar, Creation and Imitation. The Work of a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Illuminator, Fort Lauderdale 1976
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: Margaret, no. 3-13
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 02213-45, 01856, 01861, 01864, 01880