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687  :  Hours (Tournai/Arras/Bruges, Rome)

Number

687


Shelf Marks

  • Baltimore, WAG, W 270

Owners before c.1550

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Commissioners

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Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Flanders ? / Spain ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1440-1450 (c.1450-1460 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1400-1449
    • Decade : 1440 - 1449

Physical description

Measurements

  • 151 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 192 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 155 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 7 large miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 46
  • Number of miniatures : 46
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Gold Scrolls
  • M Guillebert van Mets ?

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (brown morocco, France)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Tournai/Arras/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. 216, Flanders ?, Spain ?

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Gold Scrolls, M Guillebert van Mets

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. 239 (ill. 461-462: f.27v-28, 60v)

Online Informations and images

http://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.270/browse

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 15421-22; Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File USA (7 miniatures)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman