Result 1 of 1

Full reference manuscripts

The Hague, KB, 132 G 37

Contents:

Book of Hours

Place of origin, date:

Leyden, Masters of Hugo Jansz. van Woerden (illuminator); c. 1480-1500

Material:

Vellum, ff. 111, 166x113 (100x70) mm, 21 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; gilt

Decoration:

1 full-page miniature (110x67 mm) with border decoration; 2 historiated initials (40x50 mm) with border decoration; 4 illustrations in the margin (roundels); decorated initials with border decoration

Provenance:

Purchased in 1907 at a sale at P. Gouda Quint, Arnhem (cat. 5 October, no. 2631)

Annotation:

No calendar. Leaves with full-page miniatures missing before f. 74 (Hours of the Eternal Wisdom) and f. 92 (Hourd of the Holy Spirit); leaves with full-page miniatures and opening pages with historiated initials missing before f. 1 (Hours of the Virgin), f. 31(Penitential Psalms; half of f. 30 present), f. 44 (Prayers of St Gregory), f. 49 (Suffrage to St. Anna), f. 51 (Hours of the Cross); lower margin, probably containing historiated roundels cut out at all sections of the Hours of the Virgins, at several of the Hours of the Cross andprobably also at the Hours of the Eternal Wisdom and the Hours of the Holy Spirit. Office of the Dead probably missing at the end

Bibliography:

Literature about this manuscript

Image for this manuscript | images only | images and description | description only

© Koninklijke Bibliotheek National Library of the Netherlands