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
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Ghent
- Details : Ghent ?
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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