688 : Hours (Mons, St Waltrudis abbey)
Number
688
Shelf Marks
- Baltimore, WAG, W 272
Owners before c.1550
- Benedictine nuns convent, St Waudru, Mons ?
Commissioners
- Benedictine nuns convent, St Waudru, Mons ?
- Institution: ecclesiastical
- Gender : Institution
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Hainaut
- Details : Hainaut ? (Tournai ? / Bruges ?)
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Date
- Date details : c.1470-1480
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 212 leaves
- Size categories of height : 200-224 mm
- Height of text blocks : 211 mm
- Width of text blocks : 172 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 12 large, 19 small miniatures, 1 historiated initial
- Total number of illustrations : 32
- Number of miniatures : 31
- Number of historiated initials : 1
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Walters 272
- m Scheide 20
- Jacquemart Pilavaine (influence)
- M Anthony of Burgundy (follower) ?
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (brown calf)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (Mons, St Waltrudis abbey)
Languages
- Latin
- French
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. 097 (ill. 038, 042, coul. ill. 23)
Annemarieke Willemsen, Kinder delijt. Middeleeuws speelgoed in de Nederlanden, Nijmegen 1998, 100
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.392-398 (Clark)
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. 277 (ill. XXXIXa, 520-521: f.13v, 33v-34, 151v)