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688  :  Hours (Mons, St Waltrudis abbey)

Number

688


Shelf Marks

  • Baltimore, WAG, W 272

Owners before c.1550

  • Benedictine nuns convent, St Waudru, Mons ?

Commissioners

  • Benedictine nuns convent, St Waudru, Mons ?
    • Institution: ecclesiastical
    • Gender : Institution

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Hainaut
    • Details : Hainaut ? (Tournai ? / Bruges ?)
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470-1480
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 212 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 211 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 172 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 12 large, 19 small miniatures, 1 historiated initial
  • Total number of illustrations : 32
  • Number of miniatures : 31
  • Number of historiated initials : 1
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Walters 272
  • m Scheide 20
  • Jacquemart Pilavaine (influence)
  • M Anthony of Burgundy (follower) ?

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (brown calf)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Mons, St Waltrudis abbey)

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. 097 (ill. 038, 042, coul. ill. 23)

Annemarieke Willemsen, Kinder delijt. Middeleeuws speelgoed in de Nederlanden, Nijmegen 1998, 100

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.392-398 (Clark)

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. 277 (ill. XXXIXa, 520-521: f.13v, 33v-34, 151v)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman