2948 : Hours (Hainaut, Rome)
Number
2948
Shelf Marks
- Philadelphia, Free Library, Lewis E 108
- John Frederick Lewis
- Philadelphia, A.S.W. Rosenbach
- New York, Robert Hoe
- Sotheby’s ? (c.1890)
- Duc de La Vallière, (1759)
- Jean-Baptiste-Denis Guyon de Sardière (18th c.)
Owners before c.1550
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Commissioners
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Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c. 1480-1500 (c.1515? / c.1500-1520)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1490 - 1499
Physical description
Measurements
- 154 leaves
- Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
- Height of text blocks : 175 mm
- Width of text blocks : 127 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 4
- Number of miniatures : 4
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
"Memento mori"
Miniaturists
- M Edward IV (circle ?)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 18th c. (SN, red morocco)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Hours (Hainaut, Rome)
Languages
- Latin
- French
Bibliography
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.338, text ill. 88 (Master Edward IV)
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.0259
Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, ‘Marketing Books for Burghers: Jean Markant’s Activity in Tournai, Lille, and Bruges’, Elizabeth Morrison & Thomas Kren (eds.), Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context. Recent Research, Los Angeles 2006, 135-148, n.60
Edwin Wolf, A descriptive catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 1937, p. 118 (1 ill.)
James R. Tanis (ed.), Leaves of Gold. Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, exhib. cat., Philadelphia 2001, no. 35
Online Informations and images
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/LewisE108_4
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 01878