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“Unique and unrepeatable first editions, strictly limited to 987 numbered and authenticated copies” This peculiar book owes its name to the illustration in the margin of f. 27r, which depicts a game very similar to present-day golf The Golf Book The • London

«First, unique and unrepeatable edition, strictly limited to 987 numbered and authenticated copies»

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Full-colour commentary volume ized by a series of miniatures depict- ing daily work and leisure activities typical of the 16th century. The son of the artist Alexander January, f. 18v (detail) Bening, Simon Bening was born in 1483 or 84 in . Around the year 1500 he began working in The person for whom this marvellous and Ghent, before fi nally settling in • Shelf mark: Add. Ms. 24098. Book of Hours was made is still un- Bruges in about 1519. His workshop • Date: ca. 1540. known. Running along the bottom of produced countless books of hours, • Provenance: Bruges. the pages in the calendar is a series all truly outstanding, for people of • Size: ± 220 x 145 mm. of images that have always been of high rank in across Europe. He was • Size of the illuminations: great interest. They depict sports ac- undoubtedly the best known minia- 115 x 84 mm. tivities and other pastimes typical of turist of his time. His oeuvre includes • 60 pages, most of them with a full- the period when the manuscript was such noteworthy items as the Prayer page illumination. made. One of the games portrayed is Book of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg • Work by Simon Bening. • Full-colour commentary volume golf, the reason why this book is also (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum) (256 p.) by Carlos Miranda (Doctor known as the “Golf Book”. In addition and the Da Costa Hours (New York, in History). to these small, marginal scenes, the Pierpont Morgan Library). Bening pages of the calendar are character- died in 1561 at the age of 78.

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