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535  :  Hours (Sarum) "Grey Hours"

Number

535


Shelf Marks

  • Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, 15537C
  • Sotheby's 1920-03-23, no. 42
  • Henry Yates Thompson (1895)

Owners before c.1550

  • Sir John Grey of Blisworth (Northamptonshire)

Commissioners

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Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ? (miniatures) + England (borders)
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1450-1460 ?
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459

Physical description

Measurements

  • (no data) leaves
  • Size categories of height : (no data) mm
  • Height of text blocks : (no data) mm
  • Width of text blocks : (no data) mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 67
  • Number of miniatures : 67
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Mildmay
  • M Beady(Narrow) Eyes (influence) ?
  • Willem Vrelant (influence) ?

Material

parchment

Binding

  • Description : modern (brown leather, gold stamped)
  • Dating : Modern binding


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Sarum) "Grey Hours"

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 136

French and Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts from Chicago Collections, exhib. cat., Chicago 1969, no. 05

Online Informations and images

Information and digital facsimile : http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=thedegrayhoursnlwms15537

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman