Series Vitr/24/2 Originally published 1465 | Publication date 1465 | |
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Original title Libro de horas de Leonor de la Vega Similar Belles Heures of Jean de F, Luttrell Psalter, Book of hours, Très Riches Heures d, Tacuinum Sanitatis | ||
The Book of Hours of Leonor de la Vega is a codex of illuminated manuscript on vellum by Willem Vrelant. It is in the National Library of Spain (Vitr.24-2). The pages have dimensions 19 x 13 centimeters.
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History
The author Willem Vrelant Ultrech born in 1410 and died in Bruges in 1481, was a student of Jan van Eyck, and was active in Flanders, where the book of hours was made between 1465 and 1470.
The manuscript was sent 1498 as a gift by the ambassador of Spain in Flanders Diego Ramirez de Villaescusa ambassador to Rome father of the poet Garcilaso de la Vega. The heir to the codex was the sister of the poet Leonor de la Vega, who took the name the Book of Hours.
Description
The manuscript presents a goatskin binding, and is made on parchment folios (202), the size of 19 x 13 cm. and a total of 404 pages. A calendar with no artwork contrasts with the many illustrations that can be seen in the different chapters of the Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, with full-page miniatures or edgings full of vegetables are included, monsters or skits, with applied gold leaf in many illustrations, as well as in capital letters.