Book of Hours of Engelbert of Nassau
The Book of Hours of Engelbert of Nassau (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ms Douce 219–220) is a book of hours in the Dominican Rite, illuminated by the Master of Mary of Burgundy, which was produced in Ghent in the 1470s or 1480s for Engelbert II of Nassau.[1] It is regarded as one of the high-points of Flemish manuscript illumination.
A page from the Hours of Engelbert of Nassau
A page from the Hours of Engelbert of Nassau
References
- T Kren & S McKendrick (eds), Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, cat. 18, Getty Museum/Royal Academy of Arts, 2003, ISBN 1-903973-28-7
External links
- Ms Douce 219, Bodleian website.
- Ms Douce 220, Bodleian website.
- MS Douce 219-20 In the Bodleian Libraries' Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts
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