Accession number
MS M.1209
Object title
St. Bernard of Clairvaux Receiving Milk from the Virgin; King David Harping; Two Birds Fighting.
Created
The Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1460
Credit line
Gift of an anonymous donor in honor of Roger S. Wieck, 2018.
Description
1 leaf : vellum, illuminated, matted ; 187 x 131 mm
Provenance
An antiquarian who worked in the Rhineland; acquired from the estate by a relative, who consigned the leaf for auction in Cologne, Venator & Hanstein, 16 March 2018, lot 533.
Notes
A single leaf from a Book of Hours with an historiated initial and border illuminated by the Master of Catherine of Cleves.
This leaf comes from an otherwise unknown Book of Hours illuminated by the Master of Catherine of Cleves; painted late in the artist's career (ca. 1460), it complements the earlier Hours of Catherine of Cleves (MS M.917/945; ca. 1440), one of the Morgan's most important illuminated manuscripts. But see also the description of MS M.1212.
Only fifteen manuscripts illuminated by the Master of Catherine of Cleves survive. This leaf represents the sole surviving folio from a sixteenth creation. The leaf's style, border, layout, and dimensions are all comparable to those of the Lochorst Hours (The Hague, Museum Meermanno, MS 10 F 50) from around 1460 and considered his last creation.
Associated text: Beginning of the Seven Penitential Psalms (of which the first is Psalm VI), in the Dutch translation of Geert Groote (1340-1384); the text continues on the verso. Transcription: "Domi[n]e ne. Here in dijnre verbolghenheit en straffe my niet ..."
Scribe: unknown.
Decoration: 1 historiated intitial (H) and two vignettes within a foliate border.
Artist: Master of Catherine of Cleves.
This leaf comes from an otherwise unknown Book of Hours illuminated by the Master of Catherine of Cleves; painted late in the artist's career (ca. 1460), it complements the earlier Hours of Catherine of Cleves (MS M.917/945; ca. 1440), one of the Morgan's most important illuminated manuscripts. But see also the description of MS M.1212.
Only fifteen manuscripts illuminated by the Master of Catherine of Cleves survive. This leaf represents the sole surviving folio from a sixteenth creation. The leaf's style, border, layout, and dimensions are all comparable to those of the Lochorst Hours (The Hague, Museum Meermanno, MS 10 F 50) from around 1460 and considered his last creation.
Associated text: Beginning of the Seven Penitential Psalms (of which the first is Psalm VI), in the Dutch translation of Geert Groote (1340-1384); the text continues on the verso. Transcription: "Domi[n]e ne. Here in dijnre verbolghenheit en straffe my niet ..."
Scribe: unknown.
Decoration: 1 historiated intitial (H) and two vignettes within a foliate border.
Artist: Master of Catherine of Cleves.
Language
Dutch
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