ID: 700008669 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008669	Record Type: Movable Work

Prayer Book of Charles the Bold (illuminated manuscript; Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy and workshop (Flemish, act...; 1469; around 1471; and around ...; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 89.ML.35; Ms. 37)

Note: 159 folios + 4 flyleaves, 5 full-page miniatures, 32 three-quarter-page miniatures, 2 quarter-page miniatures, 8 small miniatures, 42 historiated borders. Written in Ghent; illuminated in Antwerp.This diminutive prayer book, measuring about five by three and one-half inches, engages the viewer in intimate contemplation of both its text and its images. The book contains Latin prayers devoted to Christ, the Virgin, and the saints and is remarkably embellished with thirty-seven large miniatures, several smaller miniatures, and decorations on every page. The largest miniatures measure only about three inches on the longest side, but they are incredibly detailed, often with deep panoramic landscapes framed by lush borders. Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy and son of bibliophile Philip the Good, saw many of his father's unfinished book commissions through to completion; this prayer book is one of the rare commissions Charles initiated himself. The accounts of the Burgundian dukes record payments in 1469 to the scribe Nicholas Spierinc of Ghent, to the illuminator Lieven van Lathem of Antwerp, and to the goldsmith who made the original clasps for the binding of this costly book. Along with Lathem, several anonymous illuminators collaborated on this project, including the Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy. In the 1480s, a series of additional prayers with miniatures by a French illuminator was added to the volume.

Titles:

Prayer Book of Charles the Bold (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Ms. 37 (C,U,MD,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: volume

Work Types:

illuminated manuscript [300265483] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by conditions of production>, manuscripts (documents))

prayer book [300026476]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, religious texts)

book [300028051]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: 1469; around 1471; and around 1480 - 1490

Creator Display:

Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy and workshop (Flemish, active ca. 1470-ca. 1480); Lieven van Lathem and workshop (Flemish, ca. 1430-1493); and Nicolas Spierinc (Flemish, active 1455-1499); formerly attributed to the Master of Mary of Burgundy (Flemish, active ca. 1469-1483) [preferred,JPGM]

illuminator Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy (Flemish illuminator, active ca. 1470-ca. 1480 in Ghent) [500204776]

illuminator Lathem, Lieven van (Netherlandish illuminator, active 1454, died before 1493) [500116690]

scribe Spierinck, Nicolas (Flemish scribe and illuminator, active 1455-1499) [500124337]

creator Master of Mary of Burgundy (Flemish illuminator, active 1469-1483) Qualifier: formerly attributed to [500016782]

patron Charles, Duke of Burgundy (Burgundian duke and patron, 1433-1477) [500354864]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 89.ML.35; Ms. 37

Other: Creation: Antwerpen [7007856] Antwerpen province (province), Flanders (region (administrative division)), Belgium (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Other: Creation: Gent [7007887] East Flanders (province), Flanders (region (administrative division)), Belgium (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, silver paint, and ink on parchment bound between wood boards covered with purple velvet

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gold leaf [300264831]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>, leaf (metal))

	gilt paint [300343596]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, metallic paint)

	silver paint [300379713]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, metallic paint)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	parchment (animal material) [300011851]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

	wood board [300162666]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, <wood by product>)

	velvet (fabric weave) [300133711]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>, <textile materials by weaving technique>, pile weave (textile), warp pile weave)

Dimensions: leaves: 12.4 x 9.2 cm (4 7/8 x 3 5/8 in.)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	prayers (literary genre) [300026452]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>) (AAT)

	Jesus Christ [901000087]
	.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Mary, Blessed Virgin [901000032]
	.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	saints [300150555]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by state or condition>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Secondary Inscription: Inscribed front flyleaf, in a late fifteenth-century hand, "Je suys a Mademoiselle de Marles." Inscribed fol. 1, in an eighteenth-century hand, "Marie Jeanne Dehassy (?) / veuve d'antoine Roquel (?) / capitaine (...) des gardes Du / corps de s.a.R. Monsieur / frere unique Du Roy Louis S.A. et de / Msgr. le Duc D'orleans (...) / De France / [illegible date]"; and, in a nineteenth-century hand, "Delaroche". Inscribed fol. 26v, "mihi famulo tuo karolo pec/catori" ("karolo" in blue ink). Markings: Marked on back flyleaf with illegible stamp.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Prayer Book of Charles the Bold	........ [VP,JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Ms. 37	........ [VP,JPGM]
	........ Getty Museum, Authority file (2003-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)