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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