<< < / > >>

494  :  Hours (Sarum) "Bowet"

Number

494


Shelf Marks

  • Brugge, Openbare Bibliotheek Brugge (Biekorf), 736 coll. KBS-FRB
  • Christie's 2013-11-20,no43
  • Tenschert,LMA II,no26
  • Sotheby's1989-06-19,no3027
  • Major JRAbbey(JA7377)
  • Christie's1967-04-05,no117a
  • JL Mostyn
  • HRL Mostyn
  • HW Mostyn
  • Wynn?

Owners before c.1550

  • Fam. Bowet (Surrey)
  • Thomas Corkynsby ?
  • Ellyn Chatterton ?

Commissioners

/

Country

Belgium


Ownership Category

Private

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges / London
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1400-1411 (before 1411); c.1420
    • Half centuries : 1400-1449
    • Decade : 1400 - 1409


Physical description

Measurements

  • 099 (2+95+2) leaves
  • Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 203 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 144 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 16 miniatures, all on inserted leaves, and one etching (c.1470)
  • Total number of illustrations : 16
  • Number of miniatures : 16
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Beaufort Saints (M Long Figures)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : late 16th c. (brown calf over pasteboard, with initials H and W on each cover)
  • Dating : 1550-1600


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Sarum) "Bowet"

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

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. 15-26

Valerie Gersen, On request or off the shelf. An analysis of the manufacturing strategies of the Sarum Books of Hours within the Beaufort group with a special focus on the Bowet Hours, Research Master Thesis, Utrecht University, 2015

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. II, Rotthalmünster 1990, no. 26 (4 ill.)

Online Informations and images

See : http://www.erfgoed-kbs.be/collectie/het-bowet-getijdenboek

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman