Book of Hours of Engelbert of Nassau

A page from the 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

References

  1. ↑ 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

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