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1406  :  Hours (Rome)

Number

1406


Shelf Marks

  • Claremont College(CA), Denison Library, Kirkby 1

Owners before c.1550

Commissioners

  • Jacob Donche (c.1430-1492, councillor of Philip the Good and Charles the Bold)
    • Court functionary
    • Gender : Man

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Flanders
  • Date
    • Date details : 1479-1492
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • 188 (5+178+5) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 225-249 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 225 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 155 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 38
  • Number of miniatures : 10
  • Number of historiated initials : 28
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Willem Vrelant (circle)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c.
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Rome)

Languages

  • Latin
  • Dutch

Bibliography

Céline Van Hoorebeeck, Livres et lectures des fonctionnaires des ducs de Bourgogne (ca 1420-1520), thèse de doctorat de l'Université de Namur, 2007 (2 volumes), II, 217

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.496

Pieter Donche, Geschiedenis en Genealogie van de familie Donche 1365-2004, Berchem 2004, p.265-278

Pieter Donche, “Enkele aanvullingen bij de levensbeschrijving van Jacob Donche, Raadsheer bij de Raad van Vlaanderen”, Handelingen der Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde te Gent, Nieuwe Reeks, XL (1986), p. 77-84

C.W. Dutschke & R.H. Rouse, with the assistance of Mirella Ferrari, Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Claremont Libraries, Berkeley 1986, p. 085 (ill. 26 (f.7v), 27 (f.23v), 28(f.83))

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman