id: 138885 accession number: 1963.256 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.256 updated: 2025-07-07 18:30:28.257000 Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain, c. 1500. Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444–1519), and Associates. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; codex: 23.5 x 17.3 x 4.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 13/16 x 1 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1963.256 title: Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1500 creation date earliest: 1495 creation date latest: 1505 current location: 110B Late Gothic creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Flanders, Bruges and Ghent technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Bound Volume find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444–1519) - artist Alexander Bening has been presumed to be the same artist formerly know under the sobriquet, "Master of the Older Prayerbook of Maximilian I" * Associates - artist --- measurements: Codex: 23.5 x 17.3 x 4.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 13/16 x 1 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1963) opening date: 1963-11-27T05:00:00 Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964). title: Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination opening date: 1964-03-17T05:00:00 Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 17-April 19, 1964). title: When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story opening date: 1981-12-01T05:00:00 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). title: Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, 1467-1561 opening date: 2003-06-17T00:00:00 Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, 1467-1561. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (June 17-September 7, 2003). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 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 Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'The Medieval Garden, H.F. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, (March 20-May 1983).', 'opening_date': '2020-03-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Medieval Garden, Dumbarton Oaks, (May 12, 1983-July 7, 1983).', 'opening_date': '1983-05-12T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (October 12, 1991-January 12, 1992).', 'opening_date': '1991-10-12T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Illuminating the Renaissance, J. Paul Getty Museum, (June 17 - September 7, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-06-17T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Unidentified first owner? (c. 1500) date: c.1500- footnotes: citations: Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Castile date: footnotes: citations: Baron Edmond de Rothschild (Late 1800s till 1934) date: footnotes: citations: Baron Maurice de Rothschild date: 1934-1954 footnotes: citations: (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1954-1963 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh date: 1963- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Gras, Samuel, and Anne-Marie Legaré. Lumières du Nord: les manuscrits enluminés français et flamands de la Bibliothèque nationale d'Espagne. Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2021. page number: Mentioned: p. 335; reproduced: p. [350], fig. 12.6 url: Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review for 1963." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 10 (1963): 263-94. page number: Referenced: p. 267-271 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25151974. Wixom, William D. "Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination. A Catalogue to the Exhibition: March 17-May 17, 1964." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 3 (1964) page number: pp. 60-63 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 69 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n93 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. 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The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 10 (1981) page number: pp. 342-427 url: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture , and Elisabeth Blair MacDougall. Medieval Gardens. Washington (D.C.): Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1986. page number: p. 180, Cat. No. 25 url: Stokstad, Marilyn, and Jerry Stannard. Gardens of the Middle Ages. Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1983. page number: Cat. No. 25 url: Manion, Margaret M., and Vera F. Vines. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections. Melbourne: Thames and Hudson, 1984. page number: p. 153 url: Società di storia della miniatura. Miniatura: studi di storia dell'illustrazione e decorazione del libro. 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Gibson. [S.l.]: Brepols, 1998. page number: pp. 57-8 url: Smeyers, Maurits, and Monique Verboomen. L'Art de la miniature flamande du VIIIe au XVIe siècle. Tournai: La renaissance du livre, 1998. page number: p. 478, no. 91 url: Smeyers, Maurits. Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the Mid-16th Century: The Medieval World on Parchment. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999. page number: p. 478 url: Crucifixion. London: Phaidon, 2000. page number: pp. 92-93 url: Gnann, Achim, Heinz Widauer, Katja Gnann, and Konrad Oberhuber. Festschrift Für Konrad Oberhuber. Milano: Electa, 2000. page number: pp. 215-233 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: p. 30 & 117 url: Kesel, Lieve de. “Almost Restored The Hours of Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, 78 B 15.” Jahrbuch der Berliner (2001) page number: url: Kren, Thomas, Scot McKendrick, and Maryan W. Ainsworth. 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Fol. 197v and Fol. 198r page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 279 url: De Hamel, Christopher. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts London: Allen Lane with an imprint of Penguin Books. 2016. page number: Mentioned: p. 540, 550, 608 url: Dias, João Carvalho. European Illuminated Manuscripts in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection. [Lisbon]: Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, 2020. page number: Reproduced: P. 271, fig. 2 url: Hindman, Sandra, Simon Bening, Laura Light, and Matthew J. Westerby. Simon Bening and the Enríquez De Ribera Prayerbook. Paris ; New York : Les Enluminures, 2021. page number: Mentioned: p. 60; reproduced: p. 59, fig. 24 url: Foster-Campbell, Megan H. "Pilgrimage Across Borders: Painted Pilgrim's Badges in Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts" in Illuminating Metalwork: Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts. 2022. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 401-402, fig. 5 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.256/1963.256_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.256/1963.256_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.256/1963.256_full.tif