1938 : Hours (of Johanna van Gistel)
Number
1938
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Egerton 2125
Owners before c.1550
- Johanna van Gistel (abbess Mesen convent, near Ieper, 1516)
Commissioners
- Johanna van Gistel (abbess Mesen convent, near Ieper, 1516)
- Clergy: Prelat
- Gender : Woman
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1516 (after 1516 ?)
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1510 - 1519
Physical description
Measurements
- 220 leaves
- Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
- Height of text blocks : 150 mm
- Width of text blocks : 105 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 22
- Number of miniatures : 22
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Simon Bening (and workshop)
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (of Johanna van Gistel)
Languages
- (no data)
Bibliography
Edmund Bowles, Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages / La pratique musicale au moyen âge, Geneva 1983, no. 057 (f.180v),147 (f.7v)
Bodo Brinkmann & Eberhard König, Simon Bening, Das Blumen-Stundenbuch, Clm. 23637. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich 1991: Bening, ill. 25 (f.154v)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: S Bening
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. 044
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.1554-1555
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. 141
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.353
Kate Challis, "Marginalized jewels: the depiction of jewellery in the borders of Flemish devotional manuscripts", Margaret M. Manion & Bernard James Muir (eds.), The Art of the Book. Its Place in Medieval Worship, Exeter 1998, p. 253-289 (ill. f.142v-143)
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library, Toronto-London 1997, no. 203 (ill. f.154v)
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts, London 1911-, vol. II, no. 39 (f.182v)
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 117+118
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8010&CollID=28&NStart=2125