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1835  :  Hours (Rome) "Holford"

Number

1835


Shelf Marks

  • Lisboa, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, LA 210
  • Sotheby's 1932-06-07, no. 31
  • A. Chester Beatty
  • Holford
  • Longman

Owners before c.1550

  • (man)

Commissioners

  • (man)
    • Gender : Man

Country

Portugal


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Bruges + Ghent ?
  • Date
    • Date details : 1526 (c.1526 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1520 - 1529

Physical description

Measurements

  • 191 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 195 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 130 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations :
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

portrayed man with unidentified arms

Miniaturists

  • Gerard Horenbout / M James IV of Scotland (and workshop)
  • Simon Bening

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 1932 (red velvet)(the original binding was in blind-tooled leather, untill 1816)
  • Dating : 1900-2000


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Rome) "Holford"

Languages

  • (no data)

Bibliography

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: S Bening

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. 127

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.119

James Marrow, ‘Simon Bening in 1521: a Group of Dated Manuscripts’, Frans Vanwijngaerden et al. (eds.), Liber amicorum Herman Liebaers, Brussels 1984, 537-559

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman