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Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425): fol. 14v, Text
Master of the Brussels Initials and Associates (French)
c. 1405
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Classification
- Bound Volume
- Dimensions
- Codex: 20.3 x 15.7 x 7 cm (8 x 6 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- France, Paris
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This precious book was highly prized by its owner, Charles III, King of Navarre, a French-born prince whose coat of arms is painted on 20 folios. Charles visited Paris on numerous occasions and likely acquired this volume there in 1404. Paris was the center of the European book trade at the time and attracted illuminators from many parts of Europe. This manuscript represents one of the most remarkable fusions of French and Italian taste in book illumination. Though conforming to Parisian standards, most of the book’s major miniatures are the work of the Brussels Initials Master, an Italian illuminator who previously worked in Bologna and Padua.
