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Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425)

c. 1404

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Master of the Brussels Initials and Associates

(French)

France, Paris, 15th century

Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum

Codex: 20.3 x 15.7 x 7 cm (8 x 6 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1964.40

Location

109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture

Fun Fact

King Charles the Noble likely used this book of hours at his royal castle of Olite in Navarra in northern Spain.

Description

Creating a book of hours was an arduous and costly process. These books were made from vellum, animal skins that were laboriously prepared in a multistep process. The texts were written with a quill pen and the illustrations were hand painted using water-based pigments. Gold was added for a look of great luxury. Such a book would take years to create, making these valuable objects unique.

Provenance

Edmond de Rothschild

Maurice de Rothschild

Edmond de Rothschild, Paris

-1964

(Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York, NY), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1964-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh

Citations

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Porcher, Jean. French miniatures from illuminated manuscripts. London: Collins, 1960. pp. 58-9

Meiss, Millard. “The Exhibition of French Manuscripts of the XIII-XVI Centauries at the Bibliotheque Nationale.” Art Bulletin XXXVIII (September 1956) pp. 194-5

Natale, Mauro. El Renacimiento mediterráneo: viajes de artistas e itinerarios de obras entre Italia, Francia y España en el siglo XV : Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, del 31 de enero al 6 de mayo de 2001, Valencia Museu de Belles Arts de València, del 18 de mayo al 2 de septiembre de 2001. Madrid: Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2001. pp. 90, 190, 285-287, 620-623

Châtelet, Albert, and Boucicaut. L'âge d'or du manuscrit à peintures en France au temps de Charles VI et les Heures du Maréchal Boucicaut. Paris: Institut de France, 2000. pp. 43, 96-97

Winter, Patrick M. de. La bibliothèque de Philippe le Hardi, duc de Bourgogne, (1364-1404): étude sur les manuscrits à peintures d'une collection princière à l'époque du "Style gothique international". Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1985. pp. 100, 108, fig. 265

Gibbs, Robert. "The Brussels Initial Master: From Proto-Renaissance to Northern Renaissance and Back" Apollo (November 1991) pp. 317-321

Duffin, Ross W. "Backward Bells and Barrel Bells, Some Notes on the Early History of Loud Instruments" Historic Brass Society Journal 9 (1997) pp. 113-129

Marinelli, Sergio, Angelo Mazza, and Diego Arich de Finetti. La pittura emiliana nel Veneto. [Verona]: Banca popolare di Verona--Banco S. Geminiano e S. Prospero, 1999. pp. 24-5

Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.). The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400; [Exhibition]: October 23-December 2, 1962. 1962. pp. 67-8

Smeyers, Maurits, and Bert Cardon. Flanders in a European perspective: manuscript illumination around 1400 in Flanders and abroad : proceedings of the International Colloquium, Leuven, 7-10 September 1993. Leuven: Peeters, 1995. pp. 30, 32, 35, 78-81, & 89

Châtelet, Albert, and Boucicaut. L'âge d'or du manuscrit à peintures en France au temps de Charles VI et les Heures du Maréchal Boucicaut. Paris: Institut de France, 2000.

Maginnis, Hayden B. J., and Gabriele Erasmi. The World of the Early Sienese Painter. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. fig. 57

Fliegel, Stephen N., and Stephen N. Fliegel. A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012. p. 74, fig. 58

Hindman, Sandra, and James H. Marrow. Books of hours reconsidered. 2013. p. 50, footnote 12, p. 194

Meiss, Millard. “French and Italian Variations on an Early Fifteenth-Century Theme: St. Jerome and his Study.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts LXII (September 1963) pp. 159 & 164

De Hamel, Christopher. Les Rothschild, collectionneurs de manuscrits. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2004. fig. 4a, 12, 19b

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D'Amico, Rosalba, Renzo Grandi, and Jacques Le Goff. Il Tramonto del Medioevo a Bologna: il cantiere di San Petronio. Bologna: Nuova Alfa, 1987. p. 171

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Burt Wasserman, "News and Notes" Art Education 18, no. 1 (January 1965) pp. 37-8

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Meiss, Millard, Sharon Off Dunlap Smith, and Elizabeth H. Beatson. French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries. New York: George Braziller, 1974. pp. 375, 377, 384f, 447, no. 62

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Exhibition history

Manuscripts et Livres Précieux Retrouvés en Allemagne, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, (1949).

Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 16-May 17, 1964).

Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 1-31, 1965).

Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967).

When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982).

Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).

Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-June 11, 1989).

Paris 1400. les arts sous Charles VI. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (organizer) (March 22-July 19, 2004).

Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2004-January 9, 2005).

Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).

The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011).

Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 7-October 6, 2019).

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