Jacob IV prayer book

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The around 1503 in Ghent or Bruges resulting Prayer Book of James IV. Of Scotland and his wife Margaret Tudor is a Book of Hours , the painting of the highlights of the Gothic Ghent-Bruges reputed schools counts. Today it is in the Austrian National Library in Vienna (inventory Austrian National Library, Codex Vindobonensis 1897).

The prayer book consists of 493 pages, which are decorated with 65 miniatures, some of which are full-page . All sides are framed with marginal borders, which contain in great detail depictions of flowers and leaves as well as small living beings. The book was probably created jointly by several artists in a workshop. Among the pictures in the calendar there are twelve colorful landscape pictures with signs of the zodiac . It also contains two portraits of the donors, these show Jacob IV of Scotland and his wife Margaret Tudor , works that were most certainly only painted on pages left after the book was otherwise completed, and by the illuminator Master Jakobs, who was named after these portraits with an emergency name IV. Originate from Scotland .

It is believed that the prayer book was a wedding present to Margaret from Jacob or another Scottish nobleman. Pictures show Jacob in front of an altar on which the patron of Scotland, the Apostle Andrew can be seen and Margret is painted in veneration of Our Lady . The wedding of Jacob and Margret took place in Scotland in 1503, and the book is also provided with images of the coat of arms of the Scottish royal family . The prayer book has a special meaning as a memento of a special event in the history of Scotland and is still considered an important work of Gothic book illumination in the Netherlands.

The book is sometimes seen as a joint work by Gerard Horenbout , court painter to the governor- general of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria, and the Maximilian master , two of the most important exponents of Flemish book art. This identification is not necessarily clearly verifiable.

literature

  • GF Waagen : manuscripts with miniatures, hand drawings and copperplate engravings in the KK court library and private collections, KK Ambraser collections, KK coin and antiquities cabinet, Kaiserl. Treasury, KK Museum for Art and Industry (= The most distinguished art monuments in Vienna. Vol. 2). Braumüller, Vienna 1867, pp. 91–93.
  • Paul Durrieu: Le Jaques IV. Roi d'Eccosse. In: Gazette des Beaux-Arts , Vol. 5, 1921, Issue 3, ISSN  0016-5530 , pp. 197-212.
  • Paul Durrieu: La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530). Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire van Oest, Brussels 1921.
  • Leslie Macfarlane: The Book of Hours of James IV and Margaret Tudor. In: Innes Review. Vol. 11, 1960, ISSN  1745-5219 , pp. 3-21.
  • The prayer book of Jacob IV of Scotland (= Codices Selecti 85). Complete color facsimile edition. ADEVA, Graz 1987, ISBN 3-201-01354-4 .
  1. The facsimile (main volume). 1987.
  2. Friedrich Unterkircher: Commentary volume. 1987.
  • Duncan Macmillan: Scottish Art. 1460-1990. Mainstream Publ., Edinburgh 1990, ISBN 1-85158-251-7 .