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Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain
Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444–1519) and Associatesc. 1500
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The original owner of this exquisite book of hours was Queen Isabella of Spain, who sponsored Christopher Columbus's exploratory voyage to the Americas. Eventually this book found its way to the New World and was acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1963.
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- Title: Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain
- Creator: Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444–1519), Associates
- Date Created: c. 1500
- Physical Dimensions: Codex: 23.5 x 17.3 x 4.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 13/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
- Provenance: Unidentified first owner? (c. 1500), Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Castile, Baron Edmond de Rothschild (Late 1800s till 1934), Baron Maurice de Rothschild, (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh
- Type: Bound Volume
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.256
- Medium: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Fun Fact: Isabella’s book of hours may have in its margins one of the first depictions of a daffodil in manuscript painting.
- Department: Medieval Art
- Culture: Flanders, Bruges and Ghent
- Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
- Accession Number: 1963.256
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