Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425): fol. 18v, Text (c. 1405): Art, History and Details

Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425): fol. 18v, Text (c. 1405) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Master of the Brussels Initials and Associates (French).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This precious book was highly prized by its owner, Charles III, King of Navarre, a French-born prince whose coat of arms is painted on 20 folios. Charles visited Paris on numerous occasions and likely acquired this volume there in 1404. Paris was the center of the European book trade at the time and attracted illuminators from many parts of Europe. This manuscript represents one of the most remarkable fusions of French and Italian taste in book illumination. Though conforming to Parisian standards, most of the book’s major miniatures are the work of the Brussels Initials Master, an Italian illuminator who previously worked in Bologna and Padua.

Object facts

• Title: Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425): fol. 18v, Text
• Date: c. 1405
• Creator attribution: Master of the Brussels Initials and Associates (French)
• Culture: France, Paris
• Type: Bound Volume
• Technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
• Dimensions: Codex: 20.3 x 15.7 x 7 cm (8 x 6 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
• Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1964.40.18.b

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund

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