Book of Hours
illuminator
Master of the Gardner Hours
(Franco-Flemish, died 1500)
Dateabout 1490-1500
Place MadeFrance, Europe
MediumInk on parchment
Dimensions17.3 x 13.3 x 5.1 cm (6 13/16 x 5 1/4 x 2 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number6.T.4
eMuseum ID720471
Previous NumberDe Ricci 4
Previous NumberSchoenberg 42811
EmbARK ObjectID13376
TMS Source ID2328
Last Updated8/9/24
Description1 Vol. (162 leaves); 17 cmStatus
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesIsabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1922), pp. 13-17.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 241. (as French, late 15th century in 18th-century French binding)
Seymour de Ricci and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Vol. I (New York, 1935), p. 931, no. 4.
Dominique Vanwijnsberghe. "Marketing Books for Burghers: Jean Markant’s Activity in Tournai, Lille, and Bruges" in Elizabeth Morrison and Thomas Kren (eds.). Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context: Recent Research (Los Angeles, 2006), p. 144, fig. 11.14.
Anne-Marie Eze. "Italian Illuminated manuscripts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Rivista di storia della miniatura (2012), pp. 91, 94.
University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, no. 42811, accessed 4 November 2016.
Dominique Vanwijnsberghe in Jeffery F. Hamburger et al. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Newton: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2016), pp. 153-45, no. 119, ill. (as Franco-Flemish, probably Lille, about 1490-1500; as illuminated by the Master of the Gardner Hours)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 241. (as French, late 15th century in 18th-century French binding)
Seymour de Ricci and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Vol. I (New York, 1935), p. 931, no. 4.
Dominique Vanwijnsberghe. "Marketing Books for Burghers: Jean Markant’s Activity in Tournai, Lille, and Bruges" in Elizabeth Morrison and Thomas Kren (eds.). Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context: Recent Research (Los Angeles, 2006), p. 144, fig. 11.14.
Anne-Marie Eze. "Italian Illuminated manuscripts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Rivista di storia della miniatura (2012), pp. 91, 94.
University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, no. 42811, accessed 4 November 2016.
Dominique Vanwijnsberghe in Jeffery F. Hamburger et al. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Newton: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2016), pp. 153-45, no. 119, ill. (as Franco-Flemish, probably Lille, about 1490-1500; as illuminated by the Master of the Gardner Hours)
MarksNotesAffixed: bookplate of a Prince Bishop of the Salm-Salm family
Inscribed: "1204" [library no., 18th century]
Inscribed: "1204" [library no., 18th century]
ProvenanceNotesCollection of Guillame-Florentin von Salm-Salm, bishop of Tournai (1745-1810).
Probably purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the dealers Shreve, Crump & Lowe, Boston on 24 December 1895 for $100. (as an "Old Missal")
Probably purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the dealers Shreve, Crump & Lowe, Boston on 24 December 1895 for $100. (as an "Old Missal")
Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariaat
1909
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