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1934  :  Hours (Rome)

Number

1934


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Egerton 1147
  • M. Vesturme

Owners before c.1550

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Commissioners

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Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1500; c.1510-1515
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1500 - 1509

Physical description

Measurements

  • 262 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 100-124 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 121 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 085 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 10 min, 22 historiated initials, 24 marginal scenes
  • Total number of illustrations : 56
  • Number of miniatures : 34
  • Number of historiated initials : 22
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Dresden Prayer Book
  • Berlin Associate M Dresden Prayer Book
  • Simon Bening (early work: 4 miniatures)
  • M Maximilian ?

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (green leather)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Rome)

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Bodo Brinkmann & Eberhard König, Simon Bening, Das Blumen-Stundenbuch, Clm. 23637. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich 1991: Bening, ill. 14 (f.1v), 15 (f.10v) M Dresden Hours, ill. 13 (f.1)

Patricia Basing, Trades and crafts in medieval manuscripts, London 1990, ill. 13

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, no. 22, p.302-305, 365, bl-w ill. 304-307 (M Dresden, Bening)

Anne-Margreet As-Vijvers, Randversieringen in Gents-Brugse manuscripten.De Meester van de Davidscènes en andere verluchters als specialisten in margedecoratie, doctoral dissertation, University of Amsterdam 2002, (part of corpus)

Anne-Margreet As-Vijvers, ‘Manuscript Production in a Carmelite Convent: The Case of Cornelia van Wulfschkercke’, Sandra Hindman & James H. Marrow (eds.), Books of Hours Reconsidered, London-Turnhout 2013, p. 279-296, VII 07

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 109+110+115+116

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8027&CollID=28&NStart=1147

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman