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Add MS 18852
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Book of Hours, Use of Rome (the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad')
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Contents:
ff. 1v-13r: Calendar, with the feasts for each month in red, blue, and gold across two facing folios. The text is surrounded by miniatures of the labours of the month, with a small roundel above containing the appropriate sign of the zodiac.
ff. 15r-24v: Mirror of Conscience (‘Speculum conscientie’), with incipit: ‘Speculum conscientie de decem praeceptis’, with texts on faith, including those on the Ten Commandments, the Seven Mortal Sins, the Articles of the Faith, the Five Senses, the Seven Acts of Mercy, the Theological Virtues, the Cardinal Virtues, the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Sacraments.
ff. 25v-35v: Office of the Guardian Angel, with incipit: ‘Domine labia mea aperies’.
ff. 36r-49v: Prayers to various saints, with incipit: ‘Gratias ago tibi domine’.
ff. 50r-159v: Hours of the Passion of Christ, with a hymn to the Virgin Mary, with incipit: ‘Domine labia mea aperies’.
ff. 160r-175v: Hours of Christ and the Holy Spirit, with incipit: ‘Domine labia mea aperies’.
ff. 176v-194v: Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with incipit: ‘Incipit missa beate marie’.
ff. 195r-327r: Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, use of Rome, followed by the Seven Penitential Psalms, litany, and prayers, with incipit: ‘Incipit officium beate marie virginis’.
ff. 328v-349v: Psalter of St Jerome, with incipit: ‘Incipit psalterium sancti Iheronimi presbiteri’.
ff. 350v-407r: Office of the Dead, with incipit: 'Dilexi quoniam exaudiet dominus'.
ff. 407v-422v: Prayers to various saints, including St John the Baptist, St Peter and St Paul, St James, St George, St Mary Magdalene and St Barbara.
Decoration:
Illuminated by the Master of the David Scenes of the Grimani Breviary (see McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts (2003)). Full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff. 14v, 25v, 35v, 39v, 65v, 68v, 135v, 168v, 176v, 218v, 233v, 240v, 243v, 253v, 260v). Full scatter, architectural, or decorated borders, most with small central miniatures or decorated initials in colours and gold (ff. 15r, 26r, 36r, 40r, 42r, 45r, 47r, 50r, 52r, 54r, 56r, 58r, 60r, 62r, 66r, 69r, 73r, 81r, 88r, 93r, 100r, 107r, 115r, 121r, 127r, 136r, 145r, 156r, 160r, 169r, 177r, 182r, 184r, 186r, 189r, 191v, 192r, 194v, 195r, 219r, 234r, 241r, 244r, 254r, 261r), some with heraldic decoration. Marginal illumination in colours of men, animals, birds, hybrid creatures, jewels, metals, or plants.
Miniatures and major initials:
f. 14v: miniature of the Fall, with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, tempted by the serpent with a female torso; in the architectonic border is a scene of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise.
f. 15r: miniature of a skull in a circular mirror inscribed 'Speculum Consciencie' hanging from a brick wall, with an accompanying scatter border including flowers, moths, a snail and a strawberry.
f. 25v: miniature of the Archangel Michael trampling the Devil, enclosed in an architectonic border including a bell tower with a clock.
f. 26r: miniature of Joanna of Castile kneeling in prayer before an open book, flanked by St John the Baptist and her guardian angel, with the arms of Joanna and those of her husband, Philip the Fair, in the side borders; the two shields are connected by a love-knot uniting their initials, ‘P’ and ‘J’.
f. 35v: miniature of the baptism of Christ by John the Baptist, with an angel holding Christ’s garments, and God and the Holy Spirit above, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 36r: zoomorphic initial ‘G’(ratias) at the beginning of prayers to various saints, surrounded by a full scatter border including flowers, a moth, a snail, strawberries and birds.
f. 39v: miniature of the Risen Christ before astounded Apostles, flanked by a horned Moses carrying the tablets of the Law and another prophet, with God above, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 40r: decorated initial ‘I’ of a tree with flowering strawberries, surrounded by a full border of shelves laden with metal vessels and strings of beads, with a peacock and an open book in the foreground.
f. 42r: miniature of Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 45r: miniature of Christ and the Apostles at the Last Supper, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 47r: miniature of Christ and the Agony in the Garden, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 50r: miniature of the Arrest of Christ, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 52r: miniature of Christ being brought before Pontius Pilate, with a full scatter border including flowers, a bird, a moth, and a fly.
f. 54r: miniature of the flogging of Christ, and Christ being led to the Cross, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 56r: miniature of Christ being placed on the Cross, with a full scatter border including flowers, acanthus leaves, and a bird.
f. 58r: miniature of the Crucifixion of Christ between the two thieves, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 60r: miniature of the Deposition of Christ, with a full scatter border including flowers, strawberries, moths, and a fly.
f. 62r: miniature of the Entombment of Christ, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 65v: miniature of the resurrected Christ, holding an orb with a cross, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 66r: inhabited initial ‘S’(alve) of an angel and acanthus leaves, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 68v: miniature of the Crucifixion of Christ, with a mourning Virgin Mary, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 69r: inhabited initial ‘S’(tabat mater dolorosa) of an angel and acanthus leaves, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 73r: miniature of the instruments of the Passion of Christ, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 81r: miniature of the flogging of a hooded Christ, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 88r: miniature of Christ being brought before Pontius Pilate, with a full scatter border including a flowering plant in a pot, flowers, and strawberries.
f. 93r: miniature of the flogging of Christ, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 100r: miniature of Christ carrying the Cross, with a full scatter border including flowers, moths, a bird, and a centipede.
f. 107r: miniature of the Crucifixion of Christ and the piercing of Christ’s side with a lance, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 115r: miniature of the Deposition of Christ with a mourning Virgin Mary, with a full scatter border including flowers and flies.
f. 121r: miniature of the Entombment of Christ, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 127r: miniature of the Deposition of Christ, with Christ taken from the Cross, accompanied by a mourning Virgin Mary, Sts John the Evangelist, and Mary Magdalene, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 135v: miniature of a bishop praying before an altar, surrounded by other richly-dressed clerics, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 136r: illuminated initial ‘O’(Domine iesu christe adoro te) at the beginning of the Prayer of St Gregory, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 145r: text in red lettering, with incipit ‘Quindecim orations sequentes’ at the beginning of the Fifteen Prayers of St Bridget, with a full scatter border including flowers and birds.
f. 156r: illuminated initial ‘C’(oncede) at the beginning of St Thomas Aquinas’ prayer ‘Concede mihi, misericors Deus’, with a full scatter border including flowers, a moth, and a fly.
f. 160r: inhabited initial ‘O’(Domine labia mea) of an angel and a lion amongst acanthus leaves, with a full scatter border including flowers, birds, and a pink ribbon.
f. 168v: miniature of the Pentecost, with the Holy Spirit descending, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 169r: zoomorphic initial ‘O’(Domine labia mea) of an animal and acanthus leaves, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 176v: miniature of the Virgin and Child Enthroned, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 177r: inhabited initial ‘S’(alve) of an angel amongst acanthus leaves, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 182r: miniature of St John the Evangelist on the island of Patmos, writing down the visions which appear before him, with a full border of animals and birds in a wild landscape.
f. 184r: miniature of St Luke writing his Gospel in a luxurious scriptorium, with a painting of the Virgin and Child before him and a winged ox behind (his Evangelist symbol), with a full trompe l’oeil border of pinned pilgrim badges.
f. 186r: miniature of St Matthew writing his Gospel, with a winged angel before him (his Evangelist symbol), with a full strew border of flowers.
f. 189r: miniature of St Mark writing his Gospel, with a winged lion before him (his Evangelist symbol), surrounded by a full border of shelves laden with metal vessels and strings of beads, and a peacock in the foreground.
f. 191v: illuminated initial ‘L’(iber generationis) at the beginning of a reading from Matthew, with a full border of branches with half-length male figures emerging from the flowers (part of a Tree of Jesse continuing on f. 192r).
f. 192r: text page surrounded by a Tree of Jesse, with half-length male figures emerging from a flowering tree (continued from f. 191v).
f. 194v: miniature of the Annunciation, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 195r: zoomorphic initial ‘O’(Domine labia mea) of an animal and acanthus leaves, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 218v: miniature of the Visitiation, with a trompe l’oeil border of a monstrance surrounded by burning tapers.
f. 219r: inhabited initial ‘D’(eus) of an angel and an animal amongst acanthus leaves, at the beginning of Lauds in the Hours of the Virgin, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 233v: miniature of the Nativity, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 234r: inhabited initial ‘D’(eus) of a man and a woman amongst acanthus leaves, at the beginning of Prime in the Hours of the Virgin, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 240v: miniature of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 241r: inhabited initial ‘D’(eus) of an angel and an animal amongst acanthus leaves, at the beginning of Terce in the Hours of the Virgin, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 247v: miniature of the Adoration of the Magi, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 248r: inhabited initial ‘D’(eus) of an animal amongst acanthus leaves, at the beginning of Sext in the Hours of the Virgin, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 253v: miniature of the Presentation in the Temple, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 254r: inhabited initial ‘D’(eus) of a man and a woman amongst acanthus leaves, at the beginning of None in the Hours of the Virgin, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 260v: miniature of the Massacre of the Innocents, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 261r: inhabited initial ‘D’(eus) of an angel and an animal amongst acanthus leaves, at the beginning of Vespers in the Hours of the Virgin, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 270v: miniature of the Flight into Egypt, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 271r: illuminated initial ‘C’(onverte) of acanthus leaves, at the beginning of Compline in the Hours of the Virgin, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 277r: illuminated initial ‘E’(gredietur virga de radice yesse) at the beginning of Vespers for the first Sunday of Advent in the Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 287v: full-page miniature of the Virgin Mary nursing the Christ Child (the Virgin lactans), copied from a painting by Rogier van der Weyden (see Maurits Smeyers, Flemish Miniatures (1999)).
f. 288r: miniature of Joanna of Castile kneeling before a prie dieu with an open book, being presented to the Virgin and Child on the facing folio by her patron saint, John the Evangelist, with an illuminated initial ‘D’(ignare me laudare te virgo sacrata), enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 293v: miniature of Christ and the Last Judgement, with souls being accepted into Heaven and cast into Hell, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 294r: illuminated initial ‘D’(omine) of a man and a woman amongst acanthus leaves, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 319r: zoomorphic initial ‘G’(audi) of two lions, vines, and a strawberry, at the beginning of the prayer ‘Gaudi flore virginali’, with a full trompe l’oeil border of rosaries.
f. 323r: miniature of the Christ Child, seated on a red cushion on an altar, and holding an orb surmounted by a cross, with ‘Sed nomen tuum da gloria’ written in gold below, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 328v: miniature of St Jerome in the wilderness, kneeling before a crucifix, with his lion behind him and his red cloak and hat lying at the base of the crucifix, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 329r: zoomorphic initial ‘V’(erba mea auribus), at the beginning of the Psalter of St Jerome, enclosed in an architectonic border with St Jerome seated at a desk with his lion before him.
f. 350v: miniature of Christ and the Raising of Lazarus, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 351r: inhabited initial ‘D’(ilexi) of an angel and an animal amongst acanthus vines, at the beginning of the Office of the Dead, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 407v: miniature of St John the Baptist in the wilderness, holding a book and pointing towards a lamb, with the scene of his martyrdom in the background, enclosed in an architectonic border containing vases and flowers.
f. 408r: inhabited initial ‘P’(uer qui natus est nobis) of a man and a lion amongst vines and a flowering plant, at the beginning of the prayers to St John the Baptist, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 409v: miniature of St Peter and St Paul holding their attributes, with Christ giving the keys to St Peter, and Saul’s vision on the road to Damascus in the background, enclosed in an architectonic border with putti and flowering vines.
f. 410r: inhabited initial ‘P’(etrus apostolus et paulus) of a man and a lion amongst vines and a flowering plant, at the beginning of the prayers to St Peter and St Paul, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 411v: miniature of St James the Greater, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 412r: zoomorphic initial ‘O’(Sancte iacobe) of animals (one wearing a bishop’s mitre and carrying a crozier) and vines, at the beginning of prayers to St James, with a full border of pilgrim’s staffs and scallop shells, the symbol of St James.
f. 413v: miniature of St George subduing the dragon, with his horse, the princess he has rescued, and a goat behind him, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 414r: inhabited initial ‘G’(eorgi) of a man and woman amongst vines and flowering plants, at the beginning of prayers to St George, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 415v: miniature of a richly-dressed St Mary Magdalene holding her jar of ointment, with her seclusion in the wilderness in the background, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 416r: inhabited initial ‘M’of a lion and two men amongst vines, at the beginning of prayers to St Mary Magdalene, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 420v: miniature of St Barbara holding a martyr’s palm, with her tower in the background, enclosed in an architectonic border.
f. 421r: inhabited initial ‘A’(ve martyr gloriosa Barbara), of a man and a lion amongst vines and flowering plants, at the beginning of prayers to St Barbara, enclosed in an architectonic border with vases and flowering plants.
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- Extent:
- 1 parchment codex; 422 folios.
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- Languages:
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- Start Date:
- 1486
- End Date:
- 1506
- Date Range:
- 1486-1506
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 110 x 80 mm (text space: 50 x 35 mm).
Foliation: ff. 422 + *2 (+9 unfoliated parchment flyleaves; 5 at the beginning and 4 at the end).
Collation:
Script: Gothic with humanistic features.
Binding: Post-1600. 17th-century or modern (?), of red velvet, with chased silver gilt corner pieces and clasp, and red silk endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Netherlands, S. (Bruges)
Made for Joanna I of Castile (b. 1479, d. 1555), also known as ‘Joanna the Mad’: her portraits in miniatures (ff. 26r and 288r), and arms, mottos and the joined initials of Joanna and her husband, Philip the Fair (b. 1478, d. 1506), whom she married in 1496 (f. 26r); listed in a 1545 inventory of her belongings (see Kren and McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance, 2003).
Philip Augustus Hanrott (b. 1776, d. 1856) of London: his sale, Evans, London August 1833, lot 2555 (mistakenly described as a Missal made for Mary of Burgundy in the sale catalogue; see Catalogue of the Splendid, Choice and Curious Library); purchased by Tobin.
Sir John Tobin of Liverpool (b. 1763, d. 1851) (see Kren and McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance, 2003); given to his son.
The Reverend John Tobin of Liscard, Cheshire (fl. 1833-1862), in 1838 (see Kren and McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance, 2003); sold to Boone.
William Boone, London bookseller, purchased from Reverend John Tobin's family after his death, in January 1852; sold to the British Museum.
Purchased by the British Museum from William Boone, 2 February 1852.
- Administrative Context:
- Netherlands, S. (Bruges).
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Splendid, Choice and Curious Library of P. A. Hanrott, Esq. which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans (London, W. Nicol, 1833), p. 281, lot 2555.
Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Kunstwerke und Künstler in England und Paris, volume 1 (Berlin, 1837-39), pp. 131-32.
Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Medieval, Renaissance, and More Recent Periods, on Loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862, ed. by J. C. Robinson (London: South Kensington Museum, 1862), p. 583.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 160.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen & Co., 1911), p. 319, no. 1.
Paul Durrieu, La Miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne, 1415-1530 (Paris: Van Oest, 1921), pp. 36, 67, pl. 86.
José Ferrandis, Datos documentales inéditos para la historia del arte español, III : Inventarios reales (Juan II a Juana la Loca) (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Históricos, 1943), pp. 222-23.
Heinrich Schwartz, ‘The Mirror of the Artist and the Mirror of the Devout’, Studies in the History of Art Dedicated to William E. Suida (London: Phaidon Press, 1959), p. 94.
Kurt Köster, 'Religiöse Mediallen und Wallfahrts-Devotionalien in der flämischen Buchmalerie des 15. und frühen 16. Jahrhunderts', in Buch und Welt: Festschrift für Gustav Hofmann, ed. by Hans Striedl and Joachim Wieder (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1965), pp. 468-69, 478, 483-84, 492, 494, 503, pl. 4.
Derek Howard Turner, Illuminated Manuscripts Exhibited in the Grenville Library (London: British Museum, 1967), pp. 48-49, no. 63.
Janet Backhouse, ‘A Victorian Connoisseur and His Manuscripts’, British Museum Quarterly, 32 (1968), pp. 85-86.
Alan Noel Latimer Munby, Connoisseurs and Medieval Miniatures 1750-1850 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), p. 10.
Otto Pächt, 'René d’Anjou: Studien I', Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, 69 (1973), pp. 88, 90, no. 9.
Thomas Kren, 'A Book of Hours in the Beinecke Library (Ms.287) and an Atelier from the Ghent-Bruges School', (unpublished M.A. thesis, Yale University, 1974), pp. 21-34, no. 3.
Patrick M. de Winter, 'A Book of Hours of Queen Isabel la Católica', The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 67 (1981), pp. 346-47, 394, figs 5, 41.
Otto Pächt, 'Dévotion du roi René pour sainte Marie-Madeleine et le sanctuaire de Saint-Maximin', Chronique Méridionale: Arts de Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (Centre international de documentation et de recherche du Petit Palais d'Avignon, 1981), p. 23, fig. 3.
Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, 1350-1525, in the Houghton Library, ed. by Roger S. Wieck (Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Library, Harvard University, 1983), p. 58.
Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library, ed. by Thomas Kren (New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1983), pp. 59-68, no. 7.
James Marrow, ‘”In desen spiegell”: A New Form of Memento Mori in Fifteenth-Century Netherlandish Art', in Essays in Northern European Art: Presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on his Sixtieth Birthday, ed. by Anne-Marie Logan (Doornspijk: Davaco, 1983), pp. 156-58, 161, fig. 2.
Les Rois bibliophiles, ed. by Amalia Sarría (Brussels: Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, 1985), no. 59 [exhibition catalogue].
Janet Backhouse, Books of Hours (London: British Library, 1985), pp. 5, 15, figs 4, 13.
Leon Kessels, ‘The Brussels/Tournai Part-Books: Structure, Illumination, and Flemish Reperatory’, in Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (Amsterdam: Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 1987), pp. 88, 102.
Nicholas Barker and others, Treasures of the British Library (London: British Library, 1988), pp. 132, 141.
Robert G. Calkins, ‘Sacred Image and Illusion in Late Flemish Manuscripts,’ Essays in Medieval Studies: Proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association 6 (1989), pp. 11-12.
Bodo Brinkmann and Eberhard König, Simon Bening: Das Blumen-Stundenbuch Simon Bening: Le Livre d’heures aux fleurs, Clm 23637 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Lucern: Faksimile Verlag, 1991), pp. 90, 313.
Bodo Brinkmann, ‘Űber den Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und seine Beziehung zu Utrecht’, in Masters and Miniatures: Proceedings of the Congress on Medieval Manuscript Illumination in the Northern Netherlands (Utrecht, 10-13 December 1989), ed. by K. van der Horst and Johann-Christian Klamt (Doornspijk, Netherlands: Davaco 1991), p. 193, no. 47.
Bodo Brinkmann, ‘Fitzwilliam 1058-1975 and the ‘Capriccio’ in Flemish Book Illumination’, Fifteenth-Century Flemish Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections; Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 10, part 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 1992), p. 207.
Lieve de Kesel, ‘Cambridge University Library Ms. Add. 4100: A Book of Hours Illuminated by the Master of the Prayer Books of circa 1500?’, Fifteenth-Century Flemish Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections; Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 10, part 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 1992), p. 201, no. 40.
Janet Backhouse, The Isabella Breviary (London: British Library, 1993), fig. 5.
Susie Nash, ‘A Fifteenth-Century French Manuscript and an Unknown Painting by Robert Campin’, Burlington Magazine 137 (1995), pp. 428-37, p. 437, fig. 14.
Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, ed. by Maurits Smeyers and Jan Van der Stock (St Petersburg: State Hermitage Museum, 1996), p. 31 [exhibition catalogue]
Cyriel Stroo and Pascale Syfer-d'Olne, The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden Groups (Brussels: Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique, 1996), p. 170.
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit (Turnhout: Brepols, 1997), pp. 180, 322-23.
Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament (Baarn: Tirion, 1998), pp. 435, 438, fig. 24.
Maurits Smeyers, Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century (Leuven: Brepols, 1999), p. 438, pl. 24.
Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance: the Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe (Los Angeles: G. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), cat. no. 114, pp. 385-87.
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1550 (London: British Library, 2003), pls 97-100.
Ursula Weekes, Early Engravers and their Public: the Master of the Berlin Passion and Manuscripts from Convents in the Rhine-Maas Region, ca. 1450-1500 (Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2004), pl. 177.
The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, ed. by Jonathan J. G. Alexander, James H. Marrow, and Lucy Freeman Sandler (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), p. 295, n. 2 [exhibition catalogue].
Treasures of the British Library, ed. by Nicolas Barker and others (London: British Library, 2005), p. 141.
Elizabeth Morrison, Beasts: Factual & Fantastic (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007), p. 87.
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), pl. 104.
Hanneke van Asperen, Pelgrimstekens op perkament: Originele en nageschilderde bedevaartssouvenirs in religieuze boeken (ca 1450 - ca 1530) (Nijmegen: Orange House, 2009), pp. 388-89, 471.
Hanno Wijsman, ‘Philippe le Beau et les livres: recontre entre une époque et une personnalité’, in Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair: Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries, ed. by Hanno Wijsman (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), pp. 44-45.
Eberhard Konig, 'Books for Women made by Men, in Medieval Charm: Illuminated Mauscripts for Royal, Aristocratic and Ecclesiastical Patronage, ed. by Florence Brazes-Moly and Francesca Marini (Pollestres: TDO Editions, 2016), pp. 64-83 (pp. 77-82).
- Exhibitions:
- Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of Genius, Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, 13 Februart 2016 - 8 May 2016
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)