USC Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts

Artists- Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Northern France

The miniatures are based on designs current in Willem Vrelant’s shop in Bruges, cat 1460-1470. The production site could have been Bruges or, more likely, a site in northern France where the illuminators were either settled or passing through. Access to earlier and up-to-date designs is an indication of the mobility typical of artisans throughout the Middle Ages. (..)

(...) The border designs and weighty effects (...) resemble those in a Book of Hours made for Charles the Bold and his second wife Isabella of Bourbon, privately owned, described in Christie’s sale of 20 May 1965, lot 165, with 34 miniatures by associates of Willem Vrelant, a few perhaps by Vrelant himself. Also cited in Margaret of York Simon Marmion and the Visions of Tondael, ed. T. Kren (Malibu 1992), p. 260, no. 13: “before 1468”. The script in this ducal manuscript seems to be related to that in our Book of Hours, and the initials are not dissimilar.

Source : John Windle, Antiquarian Book Seller (March 24, 2014). John Windle’s note: “...information supplied [is] based entirely on information supplied by Dr. Lilian Randall of the Walters Art Gallery which [has] either been paraphrased or cited verbatim."
 

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