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1286  :  Hours (Ghent)

Number

1286


Shelf Marks

  • Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 244
  • Sotherby's 1896-06-10/17, no. 681
  • Thomas Phillipps, no. 4083
  • Paris, Sale 1799-12-15, no. 586(?)
  • Claude Robert Jardel (Braine)

Owners before c.1550

  • St Adrian Convent (Grammont/Geraardsbergen)

Commissioners

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Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Flanders
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1440-1460
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459

Physical description

Measurements

  • 185 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 200 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 138 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 20 medaillons in margins
  • Total number of illustrations : 20
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials : 20
  • Number of grisailles :

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Ghent)

Languages

  • Latin
  • French

Bibliography

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. 180

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman