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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
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman