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2831  :  Hours (Paris?, SN)

Number

2831


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, lat 1183

Owners before c.1550

  • Agnes of Burgundy (sister of Philip the Good)
  • Francis I of France

Commissioners

  • Agnes of Burgundy (sister of Philip the Good)
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Woman

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1460-1470 (after 1455)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1460 - 1469

Physical description

Measurements

  • 165 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 198 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 140 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 12
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles : 12
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Margaret of York (circle) ??

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : (red morocco, arms King of France)
  • Dating : Modern binding


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Paris?, SN)

Languages

  • Latin
  • French

Bibliography

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.190

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. 064, 215

Ilona Hans-Collas & Hanno Wijsman 2009, ‘Le livre d’heures et de prières d’Agnès de Bourgogne, duchesse de Bourbon’, Art de l’enluminure (Hors-série de Art et métiers du livre), no. 29 (2009), 20-47

Online Informations and images

Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105110980

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman