Accession number:
MS M.349
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Delft, Netherlands, ca. 1440.
Binding:
Dutch 16th-century brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled front and back with acorns in center panel, 2 heart-shaped silver clasps and catches; lettered on back: HORAE - DUTCH - UTRECHT.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description:
236 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 130 x 93 mm
Provenance:
Possibly executed for the Augustinian nuns of St. Agnes in Delft; unidentified initials (S. H.) of a previous owner on fol. 1; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Rossi in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Book of hours for the use of Windesheim; written and illuminated in Delft, the Netherlands, ca. 1440.
Scribe: 3 different scribes.
In the Gerard Groote translation.
Decoration: 9 grisaille miniatures with touches of gold, executed on separate vellum leaves and inserted, 13 large miniatures with borders.
Artist: one of the Masters of the Delft Grisailles.
Script:
littera textualis formata
Language:
Dutch
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