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3619  :  Hours (Utrecht) ("Montfoort")

Number

3619


Shelf Marks

  • Wien, ÖNB, Sn 12878

Owners before c.1550

  • Lodewijk van Montfoort (Utrecht)

Commissioners

  • Lodewijk van Montfoort (Utrecht)
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

Austria


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : SN (Bruges / NN (Utrecht) ?
  • Date
    • Date details : 1450-1451
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459

Physical description

Measurements

  • 176 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 170 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 120 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations : 23
  • Number of miniatures : 23
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

"Le tout votre meilleur frère G de Halewin" (Joris van Halewijn); "On allen falsch dir mit trüwen A" (Albert of Saxonia ??); "Philips van Oosterich" (Philip the Fair)

Miniaturists

  • M Montfoort Hours
  • Willem Vrelant (early work: 20 miniatures)
  • M Catherine of Cleves (3 miniatures)
  • third hand (borders)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : c.1575 (red calf over wooden boards)
  • Dating : 1550-1600


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Utrecht) ("Montfoort")

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Alexander Willem Byvanck, La miniature dans les Pays-Bas Septentrionaux, Paris 1937, pl. 54, 64 (as ÖNB, 7978)

Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 100, Vrelant (early work), Holl, c.1450

La miniature hollandaise. Le grand siècle de l’enluminure du livre dans les Pays-Bas septentrionaux, exhib. cat., Brussels 1971, no. 29 (pl. 15)

Otto Pächt & Ulrike Jenni, Holländische Schule (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 3), Vienna 1975, p. 024 (ill. 039-62, III)

Henri L.M. Defoer, Anne S. Korteweg & Wilhelmina C.M. Wüstefeld, The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting, exhib. cat., New York-Utrecht-Stuttgart 1989, cat. no. 049 (2 ill.)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant

Bernard Bousmanne, Guillaume Wielant of Willem Vrelant. Miniaturist aan het Bourgondische hof in de 15e eeuw, exhib. cat., Brussels 1997 [also published in French], 35

Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996, (fig. 104)

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.358 (M Catherine of Cleves, Vrelant)

Bernard Bousmanne, “Item a Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur”: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l’enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire, Turnhout 1997, p.308 (Vrelant, M Catherine of Cleves), Fig. 006, 41(f.76v), 98(f.44), 127 (f.123v), p.340-1 (ill. f.117v, 119v)

Anne Hagiopan van Buren, ‘Willem Vrelant, Questions and Issues’, Revue belge d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art, 68 (1999), 3-30, p.9-17

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.081

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.349

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. 118, 239, 241

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: no. XX, p. 32-34

Gregory Clark, 'Beyond Saints: Variant Litany Readings and the Localization of Late Medieval Manuscript Books of Hours - The d'Orge Hours', in : Sandra Hindman & James H. Marrow (eds.), Books of Hours Reconsidered. Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, Harvey Millar Publishers, 2013, p. 213-233, p. 224

Photo Archives

Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File Autriche 05/5a (24 photos)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman