Hours of Hennessy
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The Hours of Hennessy or Hours of Notre-Dame is a 1530 illuminated book of Hours
attributed to the Bruges
artist Simon Bening
and his workshop. Its original commissioner is unknown and it is unknown how it was acquired by its later owners the Irish Hennessy family. It was bought for 12,000 francs from Peter Hennessy's heirs by the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique and is one of its most important manuscripts.
Book of Hours
The book of hours was a devotional book popular in the later Middle Ages. It is the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. Like every manuscript, each manuscript book of hours is unique in one way or another, but most contain a similar collection of texts, prayers and...
attributed to the Bruges
Bruges
Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country....
artist Simon Bening
Simon Bening
Simon Bening was a 16th century miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school, the last major artist of the Netherlandish tradition....
and his workshop. Its original commissioner is unknown and it is unknown how it was acquired by its later owners the Irish Hennessy family. It was bought for 12,000 francs from Peter Hennessy's heirs by the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique and is one of its most important manuscripts.