679 : Hours (Bruges, Rome)
Number
679
Shelf Marks
- Baltimore, WAG, W 220
Owners before c.1550
- (couple ?)
Commissioners
- (couple ?)
- Gender : Couple
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1450-1455
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1450 - 1459
Physical description
Measurements
- 231 leaves
- Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
- Height of text blocks : 160 mm
- Width of text blocks : 107 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 18
- Number of miniatures : 18
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Willem Vrelant
- M Gold Scrolls (various hands)
- M Arsenal 575
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (black morocco, Belgium/France)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (Bruges, Rome)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 102, Vrelant (and assistants), M Gold Scrolls (and assistants), Bruges
Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule I (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 6), Vienna 1983, fig. 097, 102)
Roger S. Wieck, with essays by Lawrence R. Poos, Virginia Reinburg & John Plummer, Time Sanctified. The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life, exhib. cat., New York-Baltimore 1988, no. 091 (ill. 011, 086, coul. ill. 29)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant
Bernard Bousmanne, “Item a Guillaume Wyelant aussi enlumineur”: Willem Vrelant, un aspect de l’enluminure dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux sous le mécénat des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Bon et Charles le Téméraire, Turnhout 1997, p.249, Cat. no. 6 (Vrelant), Fig. 076, 77, 137, 138 (f.28), 139 (f.39v), 140 (f.71v), 158, 159
Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James H. Marrow & Lucy Freeman Sandler (with the assistance of Elisabeth Moodey and Todor T. Petev), The Splendor of the Word. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, exhib. cat., New York-London-Turnhout 2005, see no. 63
J.D. Farquhar, Creation and Imitation. The Work of a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Illuminator, Fort Lauderdale 1976
Lilian M.C. Randall, assisted by Judith H. Oliver, Christopher Clarkson & Claudia Mark, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. III: Belgium, 1250-1530, 2 vols., Baltimore-London 1997, no. 244 (ill. XXXIIc, 469-471, 571: f.108, 112v-113, etc.)
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 01873; Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File USA (photos of all 18 miniatures); Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 6 photos