Showing posts with label Bruges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bruges. Show all posts

Friday, 14 April 2017

Hours of Philip the Bold (Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 3-1954 & Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 11035-37)

Presentation in the Temple, 
Fitzwilliam Museum MS 3-1964, f. 104r.

Colloquial name(s): Hours of Philip the Bold
Official name(s): Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 3-1954 and Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 11035-37

Date: 1376-79, 1390, c. 1445-50 and 1451 (source)
Origin: Paris, France then Bruges, Flanders then Brabant, Brussels (source)

Online fascimile available via: select folios available via the Fitzwilliam Museum's Illuminated: Manuscripts in the Making, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 11035-37 not currently online

Monday, 12 December 2016

The Golf Book (BL Add. MS 24098)

September, men play a game similar to golf, f. 27r.

Colloquial name(s): the Golf Book
Official name(s): British Library Additional MS 24098

Date: c. 1540 (source)
Origin: Bruges, Netherlands

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Thursday, 7 April 2016

Psalter (J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. 14)

Man warming himself by a fire, surrounded by provisions, f. 3r.

Colloquial name(s): Psalter
Official name(s): J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. 14, also known as object no. 85.MK.239

Date: mid-1200s (source)
Origin: Bruges (?), Belgium (source)

Online facsimile available via: J. Paul Getty Museum Collection Database