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686  :  Hours (Mons, Cambrai) "Buves"

Number

686


Shelf Marks

  • Baltimore, WAG, W 267

Owners before c.1550

  • Fam. Buves, Picardy (woman)

Commissioners

  • Fam. Buves, Picardy (woman)
    • Gender : Woman

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Hainaut
    • Details : Hainaut
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1450-1460
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459


Physical description

Measurements

  • 188 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 213 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 163 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 21
  • Number of miniatures : 21
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (crimson velvet, Belgium)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Mons, Cambrai) "Buves"

Languages

  • Latin
  • French

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. 040 (ill. 012, 089, 114, coul. ill. 14)

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. 246 (ill. XXXIIIb, 474: f.13v-14, 49v)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman