In the context of Munich-Montserrat Book of Hours, analyze the Commissioning of the History.
The part held in Montserrat Abbey includes a 1578 inscription by the Spanish Inquisition guaranteeing that the work was not heretical. At that time it was in the Dominican monastery of San Telmo in San Sebastián in northern Spain and may have belonged to that monastery's founder Alonso de Idiaquez. Its images of the sufferings of the saints includes those of saint Sebastian, a favourite saint of the Habsburg rulers and their court, which may confirm that Idiaquez commissioned the work. Whilst based in Spain, he went on regular trips to the Low Countries between around 1535 and 1540 and might have commissioned the work whilst there, as did several other Spanish nobles of the period.
Alonso de Idiaquez San Sebastián Spanish Inquisition Montserrat Abbey saint Sebastian Dominican monastery of San Telmo