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715  :  Hours (Bruges, Rome) (later adapted for Spain)

Number

715


Shelf Marks

  • Baltimore, WAG, W 721

Owners before c.1550

  • (Spanish man)

Commissioners

  • (man)
    • Gender : Man

Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1450
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459

Physical description

Measurements

  • 297 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 151 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 112 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 13
  • Number of miniatures : 13
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Walters 721
  • Eyckian Master (influence)
  • M Gold Scrolls (influence)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (brown leather, Spain)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Bruges, Rome) (later adapted for Spain)

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Van Eyck

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

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.0116

Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 171

Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, neue Folge V, Bibermühle 2008, p. 365 (Group Turin-Milan Hours)

Maurits Smeyers, ‘A Mid-Fifteenth Century Book of Hours from Bruges in the Walters Art Gallery (MS. 721) and Its Relation to the Turin-Milan Hours'’, Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 46 (1988), 55-76 (25 ill.)

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. 243 (ill. XXXIIb, 467-468: f.35v, 86v-87, 182v-183)

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 03014-17

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman