Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 1 page
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Source Description
This small but richly illuminated Book of Hours was made ca. 1300-10 for the Use of Liège. The manuscript was created for a woman, likely a Beguine living in Huy, and inscriptions indicate it continued to be used in that region by another family into the seventeenth century. The number and variety of illuminations in the manuscript are remarkable given its small size, for it contains fourteen extant full-page miniatures, twenty-four calendar images, eleven extant large historiated initials, 188 small historiated initials, and countless marginal drolleries. Although an early rebinding resulted in the loss or rearrangement of several folios, this manuscript remains a fine example of the richness and intimacy of a Book of Hours from this period.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
34985
label
Book of Hours
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
34985
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Book of Hours
description
This small but richly illuminated Book of Hours was made ca. 1300-10 for the Use of Liège. The manuscript was created for a woman, likely a Beguine living in Huy, and inscriptions indicate it continued to be used in that region by another family into the seventeenth century. The number and variety of illuminations in the manuscript are remarkable given its small size, for it contains fourteen extant full-page miniatures, twenty-four calendar images, eleven extant large historiated initials, 188 small historiated initials, and countless marginal drolleries. Although an early rebinding resulted in the loss or rearrangement of several folios, this manuscript remains a fine example of the richness and intimacy of a Book of Hours from this period.
provenance
Acquired by the Figinne family, Huy, Belgium, likey before 1400 [1]. Acquired by Léon Gruel and Robert Engelmann Collection, Paris, late 19th or early 20th century [2]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1905; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] fols. 1v and 2r list Figinne family members with death dates spanning 1410-1604[2] GE bookplate inscribed ""No. 390"" formerly on the front flyleaf
date
ca. 1300-1310 (Medieval)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
illuminated manuscripts
largeImageUrl
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
9.1
height
6.9
dimensionsRaw
Folio H: 3 9/16 × W: 2 11/16 in. (9.1 × 6.9 cm)
Source extras
cul
Flemish
style
International Gothic
RelatedObjects
81315
81314
med
ink and pigments on parchment bound between wood boards covered with leather
creator_ids
6505
collection_ids
MSS
MED
exhibition_ids
211
2128
2829
3010
2604
87
3083
2339
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
5c9ebb965b15ec3a