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Celebration of the Mass. The Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, M 1856 is an illuminated book of hours, now in the Austrian National Library in Vienna (Codex Vindobon. 1856). The book used to be the property of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, the fifth Duke of Milan.
The Black Hours of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek,Vienna, acc. no. codex 1856, is the subject of a facsimile with commentary volume; see Ulrike Jenni and Dagmar Thoss, Das schwarze Gebetbuch: Gebetbuch des Galeazzo Maria Sforza: Codex 1856 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Frankfurt ...
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The Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, M 1856 is an illuminated book of hours, now in the Austrian National Library in Vienna . The book used to be the property of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, the fifth Duke of Milan. It was produced in Bruges, Flanders, probably between 1466 and 1477. Its name derives from its black borders and dark colour scheme ...
- The Three-Dimensional Feature of The Black Prayer Book
- Gothica Semiquadrata
- Charles The Bold and The Burgundian Court
The manuscript iconography is mainly dominated by the use of gold and silver, which highlight and increase the luminosity of all the other colors applied. The elegant contrast between black tint and shimmering colors, is clearly visible in the superb full-page miniatures such as the four Evangelists miniature (fol. 32v.) where the room in which Mar...
The Black Prayer Book is a beautiful example of Gothic script, specifically Textus Semiquadratus or Semifractus, an intermeditate between the Quadratus and Rotundus. In this case, the letters have quadrangles only at the headline and not at the baseline. There is a predominance of uncial d with the sloping shaft, many of which fuse with the succeed...
The patron of the the Black Prayer Book was probably Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1433-1477), a powerful politician and lover of the arts. He was killed in an attack during the battle of Nancy, but his strong personality is still reflected in the manuscript, that, with its rare technique and costly material, echoes an exclusive aesthetic fas...
Black Prayer Book of Galeazzo Maria Sforza. The famous Codex 1856 of the Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, the so-called Vienna Black Prayer Book, belongs to a small group of exceptional manuscripts from the 15th century: the black hours.
Jun 21, 2013 · Tags. The history of the Sforza Hours, our newest upload to Digitised Manuscripts, in many ways resembles a detective story. The manuscript (now Add MSS 34294, 45722, 62997, and 80800) was commissioned about 1490 by the Duchess of Milan Bona Sforza (d. 1503), the second wife of Galeazzo Maria Sforza.
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