Bedford Master

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Page from the Bedford Hours, 1423, illumination on parchment, 41 cm × 28 cm. British Library.

The Bedford Master was a

Chief Associate of the Bedford Master
.

Recent scholarship has tended to move from talking about the "Bedford Master" to the "Bedford Workshop" and even the Bedford Trend, a term introduced by

Hagenau" in Alsace, who was recorded in Paris between 1403 and 1424, and was perhaps the father of "Jean Haincelin", active between at least 1438 and 1449, and was perhaps the "Dunois Master" who has been given a group of late Bedford-style manuscripts.[4]

Manuscripts

For John, Duke of Bedford:[5]

  • Bedford Hours, British Library, Add. MS 18850
  • Salisbury Breviary,
    BnF
    , MS Lat. 17294
  • Hours of
    John Sobieski
    (named after its owner in the 17th century), Royal Collection, in part
  • Pontifical of Poitiers, now lost
  • Hours and Psalter, British Library, Add. MS 74754
  • Hours,
    Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
    , Cod. 1855 (Source: Björn R. Tammen, "Prayers and beyond" in "Prospettive di iconografia musicale" (2007)

Notes

  1. ^ "Sacred Texts: Bedford Hours". www.british-library.uk.
  2. ^ "Bréviaire de Salisbury, fait pour le duc de Bedford" – via gallica.bnf.fr.
  3. ^ "Royal Collection – The Sobieski Book of Hours". www.royalcollection.org.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011.
  4. ^ Wight, C. "The British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts". www.bl.uk.
  5. ^ Royal, 52–53

References

  • "Royal": McKendrick, Scot, Lowden, John and Doyle, Kathleen, (eds), Royal Manuscripts, The Genius of Illumination, 2011, British Library, 9780712358156