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3698  :  Hours (Arras ? / Tournai ?, Rome) ("Toulongeon")

Number

3698


Shelf Marks

  • unknown location
  • Heribert Tenschert(2011)
  • London,Sam Fogg
  • Sotheby's 2003-06-17,no.30
  • Ritman
  • Tenschert, LMA I, no. 39
  • Christie's 1984-12-13,no. 132
  • Sotheby's 1972-12-11,no.46
  • J Harrison-Broadley(Welton House)
  • Lyon, Lardanchet, cat. 51 (1956), no. 4467

Owners before c.1550

  • Claude de Toulongeon (knight of the Golden Fleece, chamberlain of Philip the Good)

Commissioners

  • Claude de Toulongeon (knight of the Golden Fleece, chamberlain of Philip the Good)
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

unknown


Ownership Category

Private

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1480 (c.1470 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • 171 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 250-274 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 268 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 161 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 54
  • Number of miniatures : 44
  • Number of historiated initials : 10
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Anthony of Burgundy
  • M Edward IV (early)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (brown morocco) (orig. Johannes Guillebert ?)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Arras ? / Tournai ?, Rome) ("Toulongeon")

Languages

  • Latin

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.300, note 46 (Master Edward IV)

Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], p.447

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.427, 516

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. I, Rotthalmünster 1989, no. 39 (7 ill.) (= Tenschert Cat. XXVII, F)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman