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2872  :  Hours (Ghent?, Flanders, Rome)(of John the Fearless)

Number

2872


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, NAL 3055

Owners before c.1550

  • John the Fearless
  • gift for his daughter Mary of Burgundy (wife of Adolph of Cleves) ?

Commissioners

  • John the Fearless
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Ghent
    • Details : Ghent ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1410-1419 (c.1406-1415 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1400-1449
    • Decade : 1410 - 1419

Physical description

Measurements

  • 252 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 125-149 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 140 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 100 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 28 large, 12 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 40
  • Number of miniatures : 40
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Guillebert van Mets
  • M John the Fearless's Hours

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Ghent?, Flanders, Rome)(of John the Fearless)

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

J.P. Harthan, The Book of Hours, with a historical survey and commentary, New York, 1977 [available in French: L'âge d'or des livres d'heures, Brussels 1977], p.097-100 (2 ill.)

Antoine De Schryver, ‘De miniatuurkunst te Gent’, Gent. Duizend jaar kunst en cultuur, exhib. cat., Ghent 1975, 323-396, no. 583

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Guillebert van Mets

Maurits Smeyers, Bert Cardon, Susie Vertongeren, Katrien Smeyers & Rita Van Dooren, Naer natueren ghelike. Vlaamse miniaturen voor Van Eyck (ca. 1350 – ca. 1420), Leuven 1993, no. 48

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.0252, 930-1

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.308

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, No. 014, p. 025, 36, 65, 130, 150, 159-160

L’art à la cour de Bourgogne. Le mécénat de Philippe le Hardi et de Jean sans Peur (1364-1419), exhib. cat., Dijon-Cleveland-Paris 2004. [also published in English], no. 045

Online Informations and images

See: http://images.bnf.fr/

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 27 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman