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Rohan hours


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  • Work Begun

    • 14
  • Work Locale

    • (naf) Angers (France)
  • Form

    • (lcsh) Books of hours
    • (lcsh) Manuscripts
  • Form

    • Illuminated manuscript
  • Variants

    • Bibliothèque nationale de France. Manuscript. Latin 9471
    • Bibliothèque nationale (France). Manuscript. Latin 9471
    • Grand hours of Rohan
    • Grandes heures de Rohan
    • Heures de Rohan
    • Rohan Book of hours
    • Heures d'Anjou
    • Hours of Yolande of Aragon
    • Grandes heures du duc de Rohan
    • Grosses Stundenbuch des Duc de Rohan
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  • Sources

    • found: Rohan Master. Les heures de Rohan, 1973.
    • found: Porcher, Jean. The Rohan book of hours, 1959:p. 5 (Yolande of Aragon, niece by marriage of Jean de Berry, wife of Louis II, King of Sicily and duc d'Anjou; ordered a book of hours from her court painters, probably intended for her eldest son Louis, heir to Duchy of Anjou and Kingdom of Sicily after death of Louis II in 1417) p. 6, etc. (Heures de Rohan, as they were later to be called; one of the works done by the Rohan Master for the family of Anjou; made shortly after 1416, probably about 1418-1425; name derives from the coats of arms of Rohan, which were a later addition; these hours are, by rights, Heures d'Anjou; [liturgy] follows the Use of Paris, not that of Angers, but the precise use was of secondary importance for a family which divided its time between Paris and its estates in the provinces; the Rohan Master probably worked in Paris during formative years, then his atelier de Rohan must have moved to Angers)
    • found: Wikipedia, viewed September 4, 2008(The Grandes Heures de Rohan (The Grand Hours of Rohan; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, M.S. Latin 9471; commonly known as The Rohan Hours) is an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours, painted by the anonymous artist, the Rohan Master, between 1430 and 1435)
    • found: Answers.com website, viewed September 4, 2008(Master of the Rohan Hours (flourished ca. 1410-40). French illuminator. He is named after his contribution to the illumination of the Rohan Hours (Grandes Heures de Rohan, c. 1430-33; Paris, Bib. Nat., MS. lat. 9471)
    • found: The Rohan Master, 1973:title page (a book of hours; Bibliothèque nationale, Paris (M.S. Latin 9471)) Introduction I / by Millard Meiss, p. 9, etc. (Grandes heures de Rohan; Rohan hours; work done after 1415-1416; between 1419 and 1427, the years when evidence of style indicates that the Rohan hours and the manuscripts most closely related to it were illuminated; connections of the Rohan hours and similarly late manuscripts by the Rohan workshop with the Duchesse Yolande of Anjou, wife of Duke Louis II, nephew of [Jean] Duke of Berry; Jean Porcher proposed that Yolande invited the Rohan Master to Angers; the Rohan Master perhaps worked in Angers and for a time between 1423 and 1427 in Bourges; prayers in the Rohan hours are for the use of Paris, from which may infer only that the original owner was attached by residence or sentiment to the Parisian region; prayers are in masculine form; work might have been made for Charles, Dauphin of France and Duke of Berry, from October 1422 King of France; scholars are agreed that the Rohan Master himself painted only a small number of the miniatures in the Grandes heures) Introduction II / by Marcel Thomas, p. 19, etc. (traditionally known as Grandes heures de Rohan; date remains very uncertain; certain indications might permit us to assign it to a date slightly prior to 1425-1430; first third of the 15th century; each marginal painting accompanied by a legend in Old French; likely that Yolande of Aragon commissioned the work; must have intended to present it to some important member of her family, rather than keep it for herself, since the prayers are worded in the masculine form; often thought for one of her two sons, Louis or René; could just as well have been made for Charles, Dauphin of France and Duke of Berry, from October 1422 Charles VII, King of France; the arms of the Rohan family have been superimposed, at an undetermined date, upon the original illumination; passed into the hands of one of the members of the House of Rohan, whose name became irrevocably attached to the manuscript, even though the designation Hours of Yolande of Aragon might seem more appropriate today)
    • found: Oxford art online, viewed 11 June 2014:Master of the Rohan Hours (Rohan Hours (Grandes Heures de Rohan, c. 1430-33; Paris, Bib. N., MS. lat. 9471), which contains the arms of the Rohan Family on several pages, although it is not certain that these arms are original; several scholars, including Avril, associate the production of the Rohan Hours with the Angevin court and with Yolande of Aragon, wife of Louis II, Duke of Anjou; it is thought that Yolande may have commissioned the Rohan Hours in 1431 to celebrate the marriage of Charles of Anjou, Comte du Maine, to a daughter of Alain IX de Rohan (the marriage, however, never took place); the Master was involved in the Rohan hours during the period of the climax of his career; scholarly opinion favours Angers and the Angevin court as the centre for these activities, although Meiss (1974) suggested Bourges; Meiss also indicated an earlier date, in the 1420s, for the Master's mature period; but Avril argued for 1430-40, on the grounds that the Hours of René of Anjou are dated by internal heraldic and historical evidence to 1435-6)
    • found: Herrscher des Himmels : die zwölf Tierkreiszeichen und ihre Mythen, 2005:page 19 of commentary volume (Grandes heures du duc de Rohan, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. Lat. 9471; the manuscript was made circa 1430-1435; das Grosse Stundenbuch des Duc de Rohan)
  • Editorial Notes

    • [Authorized access point for the physical manuscript; for the textual contents of the manuscript, use: Catholic Church. Book of hours (Manuscript Rohan) (n 80017856); for the illustrative matter of the manuscript with commentaries by Millard Meiss and Marcel Thomas, use: Rohan Master, active 15th century. Heures de Rohan (no2008129603).]
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