2429 : Hours (Ghent)
Number
2429
Shelf Marks
- Oxford, BL, Douce 223
Owners before c.1550
- Philippe Conrault (abbot (1444-1471) Pietersabdij convent, Ghent) ??
Commissioners
- Philippe Conrault (abbot (1444-1471) Pietersabdij convent, Ghent) ??
- Clergy
- Gender : Man
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders
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Date
- Date details : c.1485 (shortly after 1483)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 198 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 : 10
- Number of miniatures : 10
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Ghent Associates
- M Davidscenes Grimani ?
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (Ghent)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
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. 270, M Mary of Burgundy, Ghent
G.I. Lieftinck, Boekverluchters uit de omgeving van Maria van Bourgondie ca. 1475 - ca. 1485 (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Klasse der Letteren, 66), 2 vols., Brussels 1969, p.157f (ill. 271-283)
Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 616
Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule II (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 7), Vienna 1990, fig. 095 (p.97)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Dresden Hours, M Mary of Burgundy
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), 180 (n114), 181 (n121) (M David Scenes)
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.362-363, 376, 389
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. 040
Otto Pächt and J.J.G. Alexander, Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 3 vols., Oxford 1966-1973, vol. 1: 360 (ill. f.22v)
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File Grande-Bretagne 2 (11 photos of 10 miniatures); Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 10 photos