3494 : Hours (Rome) (vol. 1)
Number
3494
Shelf Marks
- Vaticano, BAV, lat 3770 (+ 3768-3770)
Owners before c.1550
Commissioners
- Nobility
- Gender : Couple
Country
Italy - Vatican City
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent
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Date
- Date details : c.1500 (c.1510-1520 ?)
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1500 - 1509
Physical description
Measurements
- 231 (total of 560 leaves in three vols.) leaves
- Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
- Height of text blocks : 202 mm
- Width of text blocks : 144 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 54
- Number of miniatures : 17
- Number of historiated initials : 37
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Gerard Horenbout / M James IV of Scotland
- M Prayer Books c.1500 ?
- Simon Bening ?
- other hand
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (blind-tooled brown leather, clasp missing)
- Dating : Unknown
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (Rome) (vol. 1)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Patrick De Winter, ‘A Book of Hours of Queen Isabel la Católica’, Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 68 (1981), 342-427, Fig. 086 (f.151v)
Joachim M. Plotzek, Katharina Winnekes & Stefan Kraus, with the collaboration of Ulrike Surmann, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Liturgie und Andacht im Mittelalter, exhib. cat., Cologne-Stuttgart 1992, cat. no. 61, p.18 (13 ill.)
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.389
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, no. 111, p.366-7
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.118
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.401
Giovanni Morello, Libri d'ore della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Catalogo della mostra, Salone Sistino, exhib. cat., Vatican City-Zurich 1988, no. 033 (ill. IV, V, 004, 058, 073, 129)