1409 : Hours (of Isabella the Catholic)
Number
1409
Shelf Marks
- Cleveland, Museum of Art, 1963.256 (63256)
Owners before c.1550
- Isabella of Castile
Commissioners
- Francisco de Rojas ? (as gift for Isabella of Castile ?)
- Foreigner
- Gender : Woman
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Date
- Date details : c.1500 (before 1504) (c.1492 ?)
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1500 - 1509
Physical description
Measurements
- 279 leaves
- Size categories of height : 225-249 mm
- Height of text blocks : 226 mm
- Width of text blocks : 152 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 74
- Number of miniatures : 50
- Number of historiated initials : 24
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Gerard David
- M Prayer Books c.1500 (and workshop)
- Gerard Horenbout / M James IV of Scotland
- M Maximilian and workshop)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern (brown leather)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (of Isabella the Catholic)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Patrick De Winter, ‘A Book of Hours of Queen Isabel la Católica’, Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 68 (1981), 342-427, (45 ill., 6 coul. ill.)
Thomas Kren, ‘Flemish Manuscript Illumination 1475-1550’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts. Treasures from the British Library, New York-Malibu-London 1983, 1-86, p.056 (n.22)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Dresden Hours, M Prayer Books c.1500, Horenbout
Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], p. 037, p.137, p.148
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.015 (n32), 133 (n8), 148, 186 (n143), 210 (Gerard David ?)
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.0714, 718, 1680
Brigitte Dekeyser & Jan Van der Stock, Manuscripts in Transition. Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002) (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 15), Leuven 2005, p.400-404
Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, no. 105, p.394-5
Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.045, 105, 119, 126
Elizabeth Morrison, 'To Have and to Hold: Marriage, Politics, and Iconography in the Prayer Book of Margaret Tudor', Joyce Coleman, Marc Cruse, Katheryn A. Smith (eds.), The Social Life of Illumination. Manuscripts, Images, and Communities in the Late Middle Ages, Turnhout 2013, p. 473-504, p. 485-488
Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. VI, Rotthalmünster 1993, p. 170 (Horenbout)
Patrick De Winter, ‘A Book of Hours of Queen Isabel la Católica’, Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 68 (1981), 342-427