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2325  :  Hours (Ghent?, Rome)

Number

2325


Shelf Marks

  • Gruel
  • Robert Hoe
  • Labitte
  • Firmin Didot
  • N. Yemeniz (1867)

Owners before c.1550

  • (inhabitant of Ghent)

Commissioners

  • (inhabitant of Ghent)
    • Townsman
    • Gender :

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1475 (c.1470-1490)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 121 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 160 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 115 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 14
  • Number of miniatures : 14
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Anthony of Burgundy (influence)
  • Willem Vrelant (influence)
  • Lieven van Lathem (decoration)
  • Nicolaes Spierinc (decoration)

Material

Parchment (black)

Binding

  • Description : modern (pig skin)
  • Dating : Modern binding


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Ghent?, Rome)

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

De eeuw der Vlaamse primitieven. Tentoonstelling ingericht door het Stadsbestuur van Brugge en The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA, exhib. cat., Brugge 1960, no. 209 (ill. f.58v)

Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 136, M Anthony of Burgundy (influence), Vrelant (influence), Bruges, after 1475

Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 110x

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Philippe de Mazerolles ?, ill.. 70 (f.58v)

Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 313

Bernard Bousmanne & William Voelkle, Das schwarze Stundenbuch : MS M. 493, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Luzern 2001 [Facsimile edition]

Treasures from the Pierpont Morgan Library : fiftieth anniversary exhibition, New-York, 1957, no. 35

Photo Archives

Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman