711 : Hours (Dominicans) (of Adolph of Cleves)
Number
711
Shelf Marks
- Baltimore, WAG, W 439
Owners before c.1550
- Adolph of Cleves
Commissioners
- Adolph of Cleves
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent
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Date
- Date details : c.1480-1490 (c.1480 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 302 leaves
- Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
- Height of text blocks : 178 mm
- Width of text blocks : 142 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 38
- Number of miniatures : 14
- Number of historiated initials : 24
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
arms ; "AA" ; "AB, votre mieulx aimée, Anne"
Miniaturists
- M Adolph Cleves
- Ghent Associates
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (Dominicans) (of Adolph of Cleves)
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. 098 (ill. 005, 097)
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.347f
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.289, 291
Manuscript Highlights from the Walters Art Gallery, exhib. cat., Baltimore 1984
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. 281 (ill. XLa-b, 526-528: f.13v-14, 64, 70v, 99v)
Online Informations and images
http://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.439/browse
Photo Archives
Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo