Time Sanctified the Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life

Abstruse

This Prayer Volume was created ca. 1520-30, likely in Brussels, in the style of the Master of Charles V. Information technology consists entirely of single folios that were added in or moved around in the book, rendering collation unfeasible. Many of intricate and high-quality miniatures were reproduced through chromolithography past Léon Gruel in his Petites Heures, published in Paris in 1875. The calendar is especially charming and features seasonally relevant illustrations, such as children having a snowball fight in December. The suffrages contain detailed and illusionistic figures, including one for St. Elizabeth of Hungary. The contents of the calendar suggest a Franciscan affinity.

Paw note

Written in littera gotica rotunda

Decoration Notation

Twenty-one extant miniatures (fourteen full-page miniatures, seven large miniatures, all misbound singletons); twenty-iv calendar illustrations, each with zodiac symbol in roundel; busy initials at text openings opposite full-page miniatures (iv lines), at text openings contrary large miniatures (iii lines), at secondary text divisions and "K L" in agenda (2 lines), and at versals and dominical letters "A" in calendar (i line); rubrics in blood-red; text in brown and blackness ink

Contributors

Master cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.

Cataloger: Ransom, Allison

Editor: Herbert, Lynley

Copy editor: Wallace, Susan

Contributor: Brown, Emily

Contributor: Emery, Doug

Correspondent: Noel, William

Contributor: Schuele, Allyson

Contributor: Shartrand, Emily

Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel

Correspondent: Toth, Michael B.

Correspondent: Wiegand, Kimber

Conservator: Owen, Linda

Conservator: Quandt, Abigail

Bibliography

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Diringer, David. The Illuminated Volume: Its History and Product. Revised edition. NY: Philosophical Library, 1967; p. 452, Pl. vii-33.

Verdier, Philippe. Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance at the Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1967; true cat. no. 206, illus. (lower cover).

Play a trick on, Sally. The Medieval Woman: An Illuminated Book of Days. Boston: Bullfinch, 1985; illus. (f. four).

Owens, Grand. B. "Musical Subjects in the Illumination of Books of Hours from Fifteenth-Century French republic and Flemish region." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1987; p. 470.

Wieck, Roger S. Time Sanctified: The Volume of Hours in Medieval Art and Life. Exhibition Catalogue. Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery. NY: George Braiziller, 1988; pp. 48-51, 218, true cat. no. 105, fig. 15.

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Randall, Lilian G. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 2, France, 1420-1540. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Academy Press in association with the Walters Fine art Gallery, 1992; p. 444 (ref. under cat. no. 192, Westward. 430).

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Hindman, Sandra. "Times to Recall." Rare Book Review 34 (2006): forty-44; p. 43.

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Henisch, Bridget Ann. The Medieval Calendar Yr. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania Country University Press, 1999; pp. 7 (every bit fig. 6-nineteen), 66 (every bit fig. 3-7), 68 (fig. iii-7), 72 (as fig. 3-7), 76 (as fig. 3-7), 161 (every bit fig. six-19), 162 (fig. 6-xix), 163 (every bit fig. 6-19), 176 (equally fig. 3-7).

Wieck, Roger Southward. "Prayer for the People: The Book of Hours." In A History of Prayer: The Commencement to the Fifteenth Century. Edited past Roy Hammerling, 389-440. Leiden: Brill Bookish Publishers, 2008; p. 423 (fig. 4).

Hammer, Gabriel. Bernhard von Clairvaux in der Buchmalerei: Darstellungen des Zisterzienserabtes in Handschriften von 1135-1630. Regensburg: Schnell und Steiner, 2009; p. 420.

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