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The Book of Hours of Golf - A Medieval illuminated manuscript with an illumination depicting the game of golf - Couverture rigide
Synopsis
This Medieval book of hours certainly is a landmark in the history of golf and Medieval illumination, as we can admire in one of its pages an illumination representing a game that clearly is an ancient type of golf or an ancestor of the game dated in 1540! Or is it a picture of Medieval or Reinassance golf?
The person for whom this marvellous Book of Hours was made is still unknown.
Running along the bottom of the pages in the calendar is a series of images depicting sports activities and other pastimes typical of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the games portrayed is golf, the reason why this book is also known as the “Golf Book”. In addition to these scenes, the pages of the calendar are characterized by a series of miniatures depicting daily work and leisure activities typical of the 16th century.
The son of the artist Alexander Bening, Simon Bening was born in 1483 or 84 in Ghent. Around the year 1500 he began working in Bruges and Ghent, before finally settling in Bruges in about 1519. He was undoubtedly the best known miniaturist of his time. His oeuvre includes such noteworthy items as the Prayer Book of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum) and the Da Costa Hours (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library). Bening died in 1561 at the age of 78.
This is the commentary volume accompanying the quasi-original edition by M. Moleiro Editor S.A., far above any facsimile or faksimile edition, sold at $2,500.
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