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3552  :  Hours (of James IV of Scotland)

Number

3552


Shelf Marks

  • Wien, ÖNB, 1897 (olim Theol. 691)
  • Emperor Leopold I (1640-1705)

Owners before c.1550

Commissioners

  • James IV of Schotland (as a gift to his wife Margaret Tudor)
    • Foreigner
    • Gender : Man

Country

Austria


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Johannes/Hanskin de Bomalia (Dominican, Bruges)

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1502-1503 (1503-1513 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1500-1549
    • Decade : 1500 - 1509

Physical description

Measurements

  • 247 (1+245+1) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 200 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 140 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 18 large, 46 small miniatures, 12 calendar miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 76
  • Number of miniatures : 76
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Gerard Horenbout / M James IV of Scotland
  • M Hortulus Animae ?

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 18th c.
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours (of James IV of Scotland)

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Friedrich Winkler, Die Flämische Buchmalerei des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts: Künstler und Werke von den Brüdern van Eyck bis zu Simon Bening, Leipzig 1925: M James IV

Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 096a+b (f.24v, f.243v)

Franz Unterkircher, Bibliothèque nationale d’Autriche. Manuscrits et livres imprimés concernant l’histoire des Pays-Bas 1475-1600, exhib. cat., Brussels 1962, 065 (ill. 20-21: f222v, f.118v)

Patrick De Winter, ‘A Book of Hours of Queen Isabel la Católica’, Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 68 (1981), 342-427, Fig. 138, 152 (f.109v, 141)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Horenbout

Joachim M. Plotzek, Katharina Winnekes & Stefan Kraus, with the collaboration of Ulrike Surmann, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Liturgie und Andacht im Mittelalter, exhib. cat., Cologne-Stuttgart 1992, p.286

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. 025, p.40

Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.026

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.1033, 1680

Annemarieke Willemsen, Kinder delijt. Middeleeuws speelgoed in de Nederlanden, Nijmegen 1998, 157, 18

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.427, 430

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. 110

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.118-119

Elizabeth Morrison, 'To Have and to Hold: Marriage, Politics, and Iconography in the Prayer Book of Margaret Tudor', Joyce Coleman, Marc Cruse, Katheryn A. Smith (eds.), The Social Life of Illumination. Manuscripts, Images, and Communities in the Late Middle Ages, Turnhout 2013, p. 473-504

Kate Challis, "Marginalized jewels: the depiction of jewellery in the borders of Flemish devotional manuscripts", Margaret M. Manion & Bernard James Muir (eds.), The Art of the Book. Its Place in Medieval Worship, Exeter 1998, p. 253-289 (ill. f.16v, 183v, 241v)

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 403 (M James IV)

Franz Unterkircher, Das Gebetbuch Jakobs IV. von Schottland und seiner Gemahlin Margaret Tudor (Faksimile Edition), Graz 1987 [Facsimile edition]

Online Informations and images

Digitisation: http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AL00163264

Photo Archives

Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File Autriche 02 (12 photos) + 2a (photo of frontispiece)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman