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669  :  Hours (Franciscans?, Rome)

Number

669


Shelf Marks

  • Baltimore, WAG, W 196

Owners before c.1550

  • Eleonora of Portugal (1458-1525, wife John II of Portugal) / Eleonora of Austria (1498-1558, wife of Manuel I of Portugal)

Commissioners

  • (woman)
    • Gender : Woman

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

  • 187 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 221 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 154 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 24 large miniatures, 24 calendar miniatures, 9 historiated initials
  • Total number of illustrations : 45
  • Number of miniatures : 24
  • Number of historiated initials : 21
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Willem Vrelant (circle)

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Franciscans?, Rome)

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Roger S. Wieck, with essays by Lawrence R. Poos, Virginia Reinburg & John Plummer, Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, exhib. cat., New York-Baltimore 1988, no. 094 (ill. 058

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. 264 (ill. XXXVIa, 500, 584: f.14v, 34v, 154v)

Online Informations and images

http://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.196/browse

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman