1236 : Hours-Missal (Rome) ("of Juana la Loca") (vol. 1)
Number
1236
Shelf Marks
- Cambridge (MA), Houghton Library, typ 443
- Quaritch, cat. 3460 (1886), no. 35696
- WS Maxwell
Owners before c.1550
Commissioners
- Court functionary
- Gender : Couple
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent + Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1480 (c.1485-1490 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 130 leaves
- Size categories of height : 125-149 mm
- Height of text blocks : 144 mm
- Width of text blocks : 103 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations :
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
Y & Y
Miniaturists
- M Dresden Prayer Book (calendar, initials)
- Simon Marmion
- Ghent Associates
- M Houghton Miniatures
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern (Zaehnsdorf, the two vols. were separated by Quaritch)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Hours-Missal (Rome) ("of Juana la Loca") (vol. 1)
Languages
- Other (Spanish + Latin)
Bibliography
G.I. Lieftinck, Boekverluchters uit de omgeving van Maria van Bourgondie ca. 1475 - ca. 1485 (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Klasse der Letteren, 66), 2 vols., Brussels 1969, p.056, p.088
Thomas Kren, ‘Flemish Manuscript Illumination 1475-1550’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts. Treasures from the British Library, New York-Malibu-London 1983, 1-86, Fig. 04f (f.14v), p.31 (Marmion, after 1475, probably after 1480)
Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule II (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 7), Vienna 1990, p. 086
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Dresden Hours, M Louthe, M Mary of Burgundy
Bodo Brinkmann, Offizium der Madonna der Codex Vat. Lat. 10293 und verwandte kleine Stundenbücher mit Architekturbordüren (Kommentarband bei Faksimileausgabe), Zurich 1992, ill. 30 (f.60), 31 (f.103)
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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.492
Marc Gil, ‘Picardie-Hainaut: Quelques remarques sur les livres d’heures produits par le Maître de Rambures et Simon Marmion’, Sandra Hindman & James H. Marrow (eds.), Books of Hours Reconsidered, London-Turnhout 2013, p. 265-277, p. 276-277
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. 409
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Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/3948918; http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/early_manuscripts/about.cfm