Saturday, 9 November 2013

MSS with a Bliss provenance II

Book of Hours (Use of Rome) "Holford Hours"

Lisboa, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, LA 210

Sotheby's 1932-06-07, no. 31

A. Chester Beatty

Holford

Longman

Place
•Region : Flanders
•Details : Bruges + Ghent ?

Date
•Date details : 1526 (c.1526 ?)
•Half centuries : 1500-1549
•Decade : 1520 - 1529

Physical description

Measurements
 •191 leaves
•Size categories of height : 175-199 mm
•Height of text blocks : 195 mm
•Width of text blocks : 130 mm

Emblems and Heraldry

portrayed man with unidentified arms

Miniaturists
 •Gerard Horenbout / M James IV of Scotland (and workshop)
•Simon Bening

Material

Parchment

Binding
 •Description : 1932 (red velvet) (the original binding was in blind-tooled leather, until 1816)
 •Dating : 1900-2000

Genre

books of hours and prayer books


Bibliography

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

Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, no. 127

Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010a, p.119

James Marrow, ‘Simon Bening in 1521: a Group of Dated Manuscripts’, Frans Vanwijngaerden et al. (eds.), Liber amicorum Herman Liebaers, Brussels 1984, 537-559

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