Accession number:
MS H.2
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Netherlands, 1488.
Binding:
Contemporary brown leather with blind-tooling and brass clasps.
Credit:
Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description:
105 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 190 x 140 mm
Provenance:
Made in 1488, probably for a resident of Haarlem (coat of arms of Haarlem on fol. 14r); a woman who has signed in a 15th or 16th century hand the front flyleaf: dit boeck hoert toe celii cegers doechter; the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1962.
Notes:
Ms. book of hours for the use of Utrecht (calendar); written and illuminated in the north Netherlands in 1488.
The Hours of the Virgin are in the translation of Gerard Groote.
Decoration: 4 full-page miniatures, 4 historiated initials, numerous decorated initials, border decorations and pen flourishes throughout; Dutch Gothic style.
Artists: Sybrant or Jan Spierinck?; baguette below the text on fol. 14r signed: Spir 1488.
Script:
textura
Language:
Dutch
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