682 : Hours (SN and W-France, Rome)
Number
682
Shelf Marks
- Baltimore, WAG, W 240
- Sotheby's 1909-05-06
- MacFarlane
Owners before c.1550
- D. Fray de la Torre (bishop, 1555)
Commissioners
- (man ?)
- Gender : Man
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1455-1460
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1450 - 1459
Physical description
Measurements
- 410 leaves
- Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
- Height of text blocks : 179 mm
- Width of text blocks : 137 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 33
- Number of miniatures : 32
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles : 1
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Willem Vrelant
- M Gold Scrols
- M Arsenal 575
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 17th/19th c. (crimson velvet over wooden boards, B)
- Dating : 1700-1800
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (SN and W-France, Rome)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
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. 092 (ill. 010, 082, 092, coul. ill. 21)
Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996
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.251 (Vrelant, Eyck (School))
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.1099
Medieval Mastery. Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold, 800-1475, exhib. cat., Leuven 2002, no. 82
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.396-397
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. 248 (ill. XXXIVb-c, 477-479, 573: f.148v, 162v, etc.)
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 01852, 01868-72, 01874