The Hours of Hennessy or Hours of Notre-Dame is a 1530 illuminated
book of Hours
The book of hours is a Christian devotional book used to pray the canonical hours. The use of a book of hours was especially popular in the Middle Ages and as a result, they are the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscrip ...
attributed to the
Bruges artist
Simon Bening
Simon Bening (c. 1483 – 1561) was a Flemish miniaturist, generally regarded as the last major artist of the Netherlandish tradition.
Bening, born either in Ghent or Antwerp, was probably trained by his father, illuminator Alexander Bening, i ...
and his workshop. Its original commissioner is unknown and it is unknown how it was acquired by its later owners the Irish Hennessy family. It was bought for 12,000 Belgian francs
[Which is equivalent to € in constant value of 2009. according to the Belgian National Bank tables.] from Peter Hennessy's heirs by the
Royal Library of Belgium
The Royal Library of Belgium (french: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, nl, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, abbreviated ''KBR'' and sometimes nicknamed in French or in Dutch) is the national library of Belgium. The library has a history t ...
in 1874, and is one of its most important manuscripts.
File:Heures de Notre Dame ou Hennessy Mars.jpg, March
File:HH Mei.jpg, May.
File:May- Boating party; and archery - The Golf Book (1520-1530), f.22v - BL Add MS 24098.jpg, May, (from the ''Golf book'').
File:Heures de Notre Dame ouHennessy Juin.jpg, June.
File:Heures de Notre Dame ou Hennessy Decembre.jpg, December.
See also
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Golf book
The Golf Book (British Library Add MS 24098) is the common name for an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours in the Use of Rome dating from the 1540s. Only 23 pages remain of the original created by the illuminator Simon Bening and his studio in B ...
References
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16th-century illuminated manuscripts
Hennessy