999 : Hours (Bruges)
Number
999
Shelf Marks
- Brussels, KBR, 9798
Owners before c.1550
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Commissioners
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Country
Belgium
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges / Ghent
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Date
- Date details : c.1430-1440
- Half centuries : 1400-1449
- Decade : 1430 - 1439
Physical description
Measurements
- 257 leaves
- Size categories of height : 225-249 mm
- Height of text blocks : 235 mm
- Width of text blocks : 160 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 17
- Number of miniatures : 17
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Gold Scrolls
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
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Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Hours (Bruges)
Languages
- Latin
Bibliography
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Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule I (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 6), Vienna 1983, fig. 106)
Isabelle Hottois e.a., L'iconographie musicale dans les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, exhib. cat., Brussels 1982, no. 100 (ill. 62: f.61v, ill. 86: f.87, ill. 55: f.91v)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Gold Scrolls
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, (fig. 68, 103)
Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James H. Marrow & Lucy Freeman Sandler (with the assistance of Elisabeth Moodey and Todor T. Petev), The Splendor of the Word. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, exhib. cat., New York-London-Turnhout 2005, see no. 63
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, No. 009, p. 142, 147
Camille Gaspar & Frédéric Lyna, Les principaux manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels 1984-1989 [reprint; 1st edition: Paris 1937-1945], no. 233
Photo Archives
Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 07102-6, 7113; Brussels, IRPA-KIK, (3 photos); Brussels, KBR, bl-w photo collection: 34 photos