1390 : Hours (Tournai, England)
Number
1390
Shelf Marks
- Chicago, Newberry Library, 35
- Sir Thomas Mildmay of Moulsham (d.1604)
Owners before c.1550
- William Gonson of Shrewsbury (1508)
Commissioners
- (English market)
- Foreigner
- Gender :
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges + England (borders)
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Date
- Date details : c.1450-1455
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1450 - 1459
Physical description
Measurements
- 167 leaves
- Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
- Height of text blocks : 204 mm
- Width of text blocks : 139 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 36
- Number of miniatures : 27
- Number of historiated initials : 9
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Mildmay
- M Beady(Narrow) Eyes (influence), Willem Vrelant (influence)
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (Tournai, England)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 214, Vrelant, M Slit Eyes (influence), Bruges, c.1450-1455
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant
Alain Arnould & Jean Michel Massing, Splendours of Flanders. Late Medieval Art in Cambridge Collections, Cambridge 1993, no. 39
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.1167
French and Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts from Chicago Collections, exhib. cat., Chicago 1969, no. 05 (3 ill.)
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File USA (photos of 27 miniatures)