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Medieval and Renaissance 47
summary
Ghistelles Hours. Book of Hours
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
120
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
84
justification : height (mm)
62
justification : width (mm)
47
note (deco)
Headings in red, line-fillers in red and blue; versal initials in alternating blue with red penwork and gold with pale blue penwork, with full-length marginal cascading ornament in red and blue on verso.
origPlace : proposed origin
Bruges, possibly
note (history)
The Calendar of the Ghistelles Hours (lacking January) is now Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W 851 (D. Vanwijnsberghe in Medieval Mastery 2002, pp. 220-21, no. 46). Prominent feasts listed there include Saints Amand and Vaast, and Saints Bertin, Omer and Bavo. A note on fol. 14r of the Walters portion records dates of fairs in Bruges, Sint-Truiden, Lille and Mesine. The table on fol. 13v lists the dates on which Easter would occur in the years from 1300 to 1316. All this is consistent with an origin perhaps in Bruges, doubtless in or very close to 1300. Other leaves from the manuscript include the arms of ancient Flanders (or a lion sable) and of the family of Ghistelles (gules a chevron ermine). It may have been made for John III Ghistelles (d. 1315), lord of Ghistelles and Ingelmuster, or a member of his family or household.
provenance
Part of Sotheby’s, 2 December 2003, lot 12; bought by the Lilly Library in 2007 from Phillip J. Pirages, cat. 54, no. 9
note (temp)
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/MedievalandRenaissance47_40
