520 : Hours "Rothschild"
Number
520
Shelf Marks
- Kerry Stokes Colection
- New York, Christie's 2014-01-29, no. 157
- London, Christie's 1999-07-08, no. 102
- Wien, ÖNB, Sn 2844
- Rothschild Family
Owners before c.1550
- Wittelsbach family (Duke Ernst of Wittelsbach (1500-1560) ??)
Commissioners
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Country
Australia
Ownership Category
Private
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent / Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1510-1520 (c.1510 ?)
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1510 - 1519
Physical description
Measurements
- 252 leaves
- Size categories of height : 225-249 mm
- Height of text blocks : 228 mm
- Width of text blocks : 160 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 67 large, 5 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 72
- Number of miniatures : 72
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Simon Bening
- Gerard Horenbout / M James IV of Scotland
- M Maximilian
- other hand
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : c.1550-1600 (red velvet over wooden boards)
- Dating : 1550-1600
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Hours "Rothschild"
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
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Franz Unterkircher, Bibliothèque nationale d’Autriche. Manuscrits et livres imprimés concernant l’histoire des Pays-Bas 1475-1600, exhib. cat., Brussels 1962, 062 (ill. III, 18-19: f108v, f245v)
Patrick De Winter, ‘A Book of Hours of Queen Isabel la Católica’, Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 68 (1981), 342-427, Fig. 039, 67, 166 (f. 236v, 16v, 245v)
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Elizabeth Morrison, 'To Have and to Hold: Marriage, Politics, and Iconography in the Prayer Book of Margaret Tudor', Joyce Coleman, Marc Cruse, Katheryn A. Smith (eds.), The Social Life of Illumination. Manuscripts, Images, and Communities in the Late Middle Ages, Turnhout 2013, p. 473-504, p. 485-486
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Franz Unterkircher, Das Stundenbuch des Mittelalters, Graz 1985
Kate Challis, "Marginalized jewels: the depiction of jewellery in the borders of Flemish devotional manuscripts", Margaret M. Manion & Bernard James Muir (eds.), The Art of the Book. Its Place in Medieval Worship, Exeter 1998, p. 253-289 (ill. f.84v, 85, 204)
Ernst Trenkler, Rothschild-Gebetbuch, cod. ser. ?. 2844 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Faksimile und Kommentar, Graz 1979 [Facsimile edition]
Photo Archives
Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 12 photos