Catalogue Roberti Fine Art, TEFAF Maastricht 2026 (1) compressed - Flipbook - Page 14
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THE MASTER OF THE GHENT PRIVILEGES
(IDENTIFIABLE AS JEAN RAMONT THE YOUNGER)
Book of Hours (Use of Rome; Calendar for the Use of Mons),
also know as the Kraus Horae
In Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment
Belgium, Tournai and Mons, mid- to late- 1450s (before 1460)
18 large half-page miniatures; border decoration attributed to Jacquemart Pilavaine
203 ff. (five leaves missing)
dimensions of leaves: 232 × 155 mm.
dimensions of binding: 250 × 165 mm.
17th century Parisian gold-tooled olive-brown morocco binding over original wooden
boards
see Appendix I for detailed contents, calendar analysis, miniature cycle, and
literature
PROVENANCE
Circa 1453-1460, the manuscript was copied and illuminated in Tournai and Mons,
for use in Mons, as implied by the choice of saints and feast days. A likely origin in
Mons is also suggested by the style of the ornamental illumination and script;
The Princes de Ligne at Beloeil, Belgium;
With the manuscript dealer H.P. Kraus, New York, by 1967;
From whom acquired in 1970 by a private collector, Europe;
Private collection, Europe.
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