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3044  :  Hours (of Berlaymont)

Number

3044


Shelf Marks

  • San Marino (CA), Huntington Library, HM 1173
  • Henry E. Huntington (in 1911)
  • E. Dwight Church (1835-1908)
  • Ellis and Elvey, Cat. 96 (March 1901)
  • Christie’s, 1900-04-09, n. 234
  • Praha, Alexander Storch (in 1896)

Owners before c.1550

Commissioners

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Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Hainaut
    • Towns : Valenciennes
    • Details : Valenciennes
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470-1480 (c.1450-1475 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 129 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 205 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 145 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 17
  • Number of miniatures : 17
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Simon Marmion

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : (loose quire, kept un a morocco box made by Lloyd, Wallis and Lloyd)
  • Dating : (no binding)


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours (of Berlaymont)

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Thomas Kren, ‘Flemish Manuscript Illumination 1475-1550’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts. Treasures from the British Library, New York-Malibu-London 1983, 1-86, Fig. 04b,e (f.44, 47) (Marmion, c.1470-1480)

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.88

Bodo Brinkmann, Offizium der Madonna der Codex Vat. Lat. 10293 und verwandte kleine Stundenbücher mit Architekturbordüren (Kommentarband bei Faksimileausgabe), Zurich 1992, p.119 (n.111), p.120 (n.113), p.125 (Marmion)

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.364-365, 376, 389

Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.113-115

Marc Gil, ‘Picardie-Hainaut: Quelques remarques sur les livres d’heures produits par le Maître de Rambures et Simon Marmion’, Sandra Hindman & James H. Marrow (eds.), Books of Hours Reconsidered, London-Turnhout 2013, p. 265-277, p. 276-277

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 311, 464 (S Marmion)

James Thorpe, Book of Hours: Illuminations by Simon Marmion, Huntington Library Press

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/hehweb/HM1173.html

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman