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3549  :  Hours

Number

3549


Shelf Marks

  • Wien, ÖNB, 1862

Owners before c.1550

  • Margaret of Austria (?)

Commissioners

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Country

Austria


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1500-1510
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1500 - 1509

Physical description

Measurements

  • 216 (1+215) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 223 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 158 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 8 large miniatures, 33 small miniatures, 9 calendar miniatures (leaves with August, September, December have disappeared)
  • Total number of illustrations : 50
  • Number of miniatures : 50
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Prayer Books c.1500

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours

Languages

  • Latin
  • French

Bibliography

Franz Unterkircher, Bibliothèque nationale d’Autriche. Manuscrits et livres imprimés concernant l’histoire des Pays-Bas 1475-1600, exhib. cat., Brussels 1962, 073 (ill. 30-31: f.198v, f.49v)

Patrick De Winter, ‘A Book of Hours of Queen Isabel la Católica’, Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 68 (1981), 342-427, Fig. 030, 38, 140-141 (f.47v, 198v, 200, 210)

Thomas Kren, ‘Flemish Manuscript Illumination 1475-1550’, Thomas Kren (ed.), Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts. Treasures from the British Library, New York-Malibu-London 1983, 1-86, p.056 (n.15)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Prayer Books c.1500, ill.. 101 (f.49v)

Marguerite Debae, La librairie de Marguerite d’Autriche, exhib. cat., Brussels 1987 [also published in Dutch: De librije van Margareta van Oostenrijk, Brussels 1987], no. 37 (1 coul. ill.)

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. 023, p.32

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.0279, 314-315

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.403, 405

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, p.394-5 (M Prayer Books c.1500)

Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.122, 124

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.204, 206

Marguerite Debae, La bibliothèque de Marguerite d’Autriche. Essai de reconstitution d’après l’inventaire de 1523-1524, Leuven 1995: Margaret of Austria, p.523-525 (not in inventory, ill. 104: f.26v)

Photo Archives

Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File Autriche 02 (8 photos); Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman