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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
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman