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accession number:	1963.256.184.a
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Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain:  Fol. 184r, c. 1500. Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444–1519), and Associates. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; codex: 22.5 x 15.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1963.256.184.a

title:				Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain:  Fol. 184r
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			c. 1500
creation date earliest:		1495
creation date latest:		1500
current location:		
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Flanders, Ghent and Bruges, late 15th century
technique:	ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Bound Volume
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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

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measurements: Codex: 22.5 x 15.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Unidentified first owner? (c. 1500)
	date: c.1500-
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	Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Castile
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	Baron Edmond de Rothschild (Late 1800s till 1934)
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	Baron Maurice de Rothschild
	date: 1934-1954
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	(Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1954-1963
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh
	date: 1963-
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wall description:
This manuscript was illuminated by a circle of at least five highly organized manuscript painters active in the Flemish cities of Ghent and Bruges. The principal illuminator was Alexander Bening, who painted the majority of the book's miniatures. Manuscripts produced by this circle of artists are renowned for the decoration of their borders, which typically feature a rich variety of realistically painted flowers, birds, and butterflies. This prayer book, called a book of hours, was intended not for a cleric, but for the private devotions of a lay person—in this case, Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain (1451–1504). Isabella's coat of arms embellishes the book's frontispiece. It is unlikely that the book was commissioned by the Queen herself; rather, she probably received it as a diplomatic gift from someone courting her patronage, perhaps Cardinal Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros. A Franciscan friar, Jimenez was dependent upon Isabella for his advancement, first to the post of Queen's confessor in 1492, and then to Archbishop of Toledo in 1495.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Scillia, Diane G. "<em>Portrait of a Woman</em>, Attributed to the Master of the Holy Kinship the Younger." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 79, no. 8 (1992): 278-87.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 286
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161371

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IMAGES

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