Book: BL Add. MS 18850 (The Bedford Hours)

Created c. 1410-1430


John

Texts:

  • Livre d'heures
  • Illuminator(s):

  • Master of the Bedford Hours
  • Master of the Munich Golden Legend
  • Master of the City of Ladies
  • Ownership Details

    Louis Duke of Guyenne, Ownership Possible (?-1415?) by Inscription.

    John Duke of Bedford, Ownership Confirmed (1423-1430) by Inscription.

    Anne of Burgundy, duchess of Bedford, Ownership Confirmed (1423-24 December 1430) by Inscription.

    Henry VI of England, Ownership Confirmed (24 December 1430-?) by Inscription.



    Bibliography

    Jeannot, Delphine. Le Mécénat bibliophilique de Jean sans Peur et de Marguerite de Bavière (1404-1424) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012).

    Stratford, Jenny. "The Manuscripts of John, Duke of Bedford: Library and Chapel." In England in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. Daniel Williams (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1987), 329-50.: 342

    Backhouse, Janet. "A Reappraisal of the Bedford Hours," British Library Journal 7, no. 1 (1981): 47-69.: 47-48

    Kaplan, S.C., "Intellectual Siblingship: Philip the Good's Book Gifts to Agnes of Burgundy," Digital Philology 10, no. 2 (2021): 290-309, https://doi.org/10.1353/dph.2021.0013: 295