Book of Hours of Leonor de la Vega

• Name — Book of Hours of Leonor de la Vega • Author — Willem Vrelant • Title Orig — Libro de horas de Leonor de la Vega • Orig Lang Code — es • Series — Vitr/24/2 • Pub Date — 1465 • Media Type — ink and illumination on parchment • Notes — National Library of Spain

The author, Willem Vrelant of Utrecht, was born in 1410 and died in Bruges in 1481. He was a student of Jan van Eyck, and was active in Flanders, where this book of hours was made, between 1465 and 1470. The manuscript was sent in 1498 as a gift from the ambassador of Spain in Flanders, Diego Ramirez de Villaescusa, to the Spanish ambassador in Rome, Garcilaso de la Vega, the father of the poet Garcilaso de la Vega. The book of hours was named for the poet's sister, Leonor de la Vega, who inherited the codex from her brother.