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538  :  Hours-Prayer Book (of Antoon van Bergen)

Number

538


Shelf Marks

  • Alnwick Castle, Duke of Northumberland, 499

Owners before c.1550

  • Antoon van Glymes-Bergen (husband of Jacqueline de Croy)

Commissioners

  • Antoon van Glymes-Bergen (husband of Jacqueline de Croy)
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Private

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Brabant
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1530 (after 1521 / before 1531)
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1530 - 1539

Physical description

Measurements

  • 116 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 158 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 112 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 33
  • Number of miniatures : 33
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

"A mon plaisir toujours serai"

Miniaturists

  • M Charles V (circle)

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours-Prayer Book (of Antoon van Bergen)

Languages

  • (no data)

Bibliography

Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, no. 168 (M Charles V (circle))

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.517

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman