715 : Hours (Bruges, Rome) (later adapted for Spain)
Number
715
Shelf Marks
- Baltimore, WAG, W 721
Owners before c.1550
- (Spanish man)
Commissioners
- (man)
- Gender : Man
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
-
Date
- Date details : c.1450
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1450 - 1459
Physical description
Measurements
- 297 leaves
- Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
- Height of text blocks : 151 mm
- Width of text blocks : 112 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 13
- Number of miniatures : 13
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Walters 721
- Eyckian Master (influence)
- M Gold Scrolls (influence)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (brown leather, Spain)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (Bruges, Rome) (later adapted for Spain)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Van Eyck
Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996
Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.0116
Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 171
Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, neue Folge V, Bibermühle 2008, p. 365 (Group Turin-Milan Hours)
Maurits Smeyers, ‘A Mid-Fifteenth Century Book of Hours from Bruges in the Walters Art Gallery (MS. 721) and Its Relation to the Turin-Milan Hours'’, Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 46 (1988), 55-76 (25 ill.)
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. 243 (ill. XXXIIb, 467-468: f.35v, 86v-87, 182v-183)
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 03014-17