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1246  :  Hours (Paris)(Grandes heures of Philip the Bold)

Number

1246


Shelf Marks

  • Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 3-1954 (+ Brussels, KBR 11035-7)
  • Mrs. W.F. Harvey (Parbrook Heath House, Hampshire)

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Bold
  • John the Fearless
  • Philip the Good
  • Library Burgundian Dukes

Commissioners

  • Philip the Bold
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man
  • Philip the Good
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Jean l'Avenant

Origin

  • Place
    • Details : Paris + SN
  • Date
    • Date details : 1376-1378 (Paris); c.1390 (Paris); c.1440 (SN); 1451 (SN)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459

Physical description

Measurements

  • 257 (275??) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 250-274 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 253 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 178 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 18 miniatures from 15th c., 127 miniatures from 14th c.
  • Total number of illustrations : 18
  • Number of miniatures : 18
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Dreux Jehan / M Girart de Rousillon
  • Jan de Tavernier
  • Willem Vrelant (1451)
  • M Wauquelin's Alexander
  • Marc Caussin
  • other hands

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Paris)(Grandes heures of Philip the Bold)

Languages

  • Latin
  • French

Bibliography

Dominique Vanwijnsberghe, ‘Ung bon ouvrier nommé Marquet Caussi’. Peinture et enluminure en Hainaut avant Simon Marmion, Brussels, 2013 (Contributions à l’étude des Primitifs flamands, 12), no. 04

Georges Dogaer & Marguerite Debae, La librairie de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels 1967 [also published in Dutch: De librije van Filips de Goede, Brussels 1967] (in list p. 161-163)

J.P. Harthan, The Book of Hours, with a historical survey and commentary, New York, 1977 [available in French: L'âge d'or des livres d'heures, Brussels 1977], p.093-096 (2 ill.)

Alain Arnould & Jean Michel Massing, Splendours of Flanders. Late Medieval Art in Cambridge Collections, Cambridge 1993, no. 46 (ill. f.253v-254)

Bernard Bousmanne, “Item a Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur”: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l’enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire, Turnhout 1997, p.277 (Vrelant), p.332 (ill. f.26v)

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.1377-1409

Nigel Morgan & Stella Panayotova, with the assistance of Martine Meuwese, Elisabeth New, Suzanne Reynolds, Hanna Vorholt, Andrea Worm, A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part I: The Low Countries, Germania, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary, 2 vols., Cambridge 2009, no. 175

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.234-235

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. 037, 189, 190, 212, 239

L’art à la cour de Bourgogne. Le mécénat de Philippe le Hardi et de Jean sans Peur (1364-1419), exhib. cat., Dijon-Cleveland-Paris 2004. [also published in English], no. 034

Francis Wormald & Phyllis M. Giles, A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum acquired between 1895 and 1979 (excluding the McClean Collection), 2 vols., Cambridge 1982, no. 067

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 03020-1

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman