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1396  :  Hours

Number

1396


Shelf Marks

  • Chicago, Newberry Library, 56, B
  • EE Ayer (1920)

Owners before c.1550

  • Marguerite de Croy (wife of Hendrik van Montfoort) (daughter of Antoine de Croy)

Commissioners

  • Marguerite de Croy (wife of Hendrik van Montfort) (daughter of Antoine de Croy)
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Woman

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Sticht
    • Details : Utrecht ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1450
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459

Physical description

Measurements

  • 104 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 180 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 127 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 40
  • Number of miniatures : 2
  • Number of historiated initials : 38
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Catherine of Cleves (circle)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : c.1550-1600 (brown calf)
  • Dating : 1550-1600


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Saskia van Bergen , De Meesters van Otto van Moerdrecht. Een onderzoek naar de stijl en iconografie van een groep miniaturisten, in relatie tot de productie van getijdenboeken in Brugge rond 1430, dissertation, University of Amsterdam 2007, p. 268-273

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.350

French and Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts from Chicago Collections, exhib. cat., Chicago 1969, no. 03 (4 ill.)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman