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645  :  Hours (Bruges?/Arras?/Ghent?)

Number

645


Shelf Marks

  • Baltimore, WAG, W 169

Owners before c.1550

  • (woman)

Commissioners

  • (woman)
    • Gender : Woman

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent / Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1420 (c.1400-1415 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1400-1449
    • Decade : 1420 - 1429


Physical description

Measurements

  • 197 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 168 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 126 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 12
  • Number of miniatures : 11
  • Number of historiated initials : 1
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Ushaw (Third)
  • M Gold Scrolls ?

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th/20th c. (purple velvet)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Bruges?/Arras?/Ghent?)

Languages

  • Latin
  • Dutch

Bibliography

Saskia van Bergen , De Meesters van Otto van Moerdrecht. Een onderzoek naar de stijl en iconografie van een groep miniaturisten, in relatie tot de productie van getijdenboeken in Brugge rond 1430, dissertation, University of Amsterdam 2007, p. 396 (SN, otherwise)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Gold Scrolls ?

Maurits Smeyers, Bert Cardon, Susie Vertongeren, Katrien Smeyers & Rita Van Dooren, Naer natueren ghelike. Vlaamse miniaturen voor Van Eyck (ca. 1350 – ca. 1420), Leuven 1993, no. 11

Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.1284

Brigitte Dekeyser & Jan Van der Stock, Manuscripts in Transition. Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002) (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 15), Leuven 2005, p.288, 290

Lilian M.C. Randall, assisted by Judith H. Oliver, Christopher Clarkson & Claudia Mark, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. III: Belgium, 1250-1530, 2 vols., Baltimore-London 1997, no. 229 (ill. XXIXa, 440: f.36v-37, 139v-140)

Online Informations and images

http://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.169/browse

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 06894, 11361-62

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman