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3544  :  Prayer Book (of Philip the Good)

Number

3544


Shelf Marks

  • Wien, ÖNB, 1800

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Good

Commissioners

  • Philip the Good
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man

Country

Austria


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Date
    • Date details : c.1430 (paintings binding); c.1445-1450 (miniatures)
    • Half centuries : 1400-1449
    • Decade : 1440 - 1449

Physical description

Measurements

  • 038 (5+33) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 185 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 127 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 3 miniatures from c.1445-1450 and 2 scenes on the binding from c.1430
  • Total number of illustrations : 5
  • Number of miniatures : 5
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Prayer Book (of Philip the Good)

Languages

  • Latin
  • French

Bibliography

Georges Dogaer & Marguerite Debae, La librairie de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels 1967 [also published in Dutch: De librije van Filips de Goede, Brussels 1967] (in list p. 161-163)

Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule I (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 6), Vienna 1983, p. 019 (ill. 25-27)

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.233-234

Otto Mazal & Dagmar Thoss (eds.), Das Buchaltärchen Philipps des Guten [Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 1800], Luzern 1991 [Facsimile edition]

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman