Accession number:
MS M.1031
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Haarlem, Netherlands, 1445-1460.
Binding:
Dutch 15th-century brown calf over boards, blind-stamped with Christ the Savior on front and Lamb of God on back, within rectangular panels.
Credit:
Purchased through the Edwin H. Herzog Fund, 1981.
Description:
293 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum. ill. ; 182 x 128 mm
Provenance:
Original owners, a couple, portrayed on fol. 193v, their arms (azure, a chevron argent in point a swan argent; beaked gules and legged sable) on fol. 129v; gules a horse or talbot rampant argent, surcharged with an estoile gules on fol. 193v; gules, a horse or talbot counterrampant argent, surcharged with an estoile gules or on fol. 194; these two latter arms identified as of Assendelft; arms on fol. 129v unidentified; Nicolas Yemeniz; his sale, Paris, Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, May 22, 1867, lot 70; to Ambroise Firmin-Didot, his sale, Paris, vol. 4, June 12-17, 1882, lot 13; E. Délicourt; Count Greffielke; Louis de Strycker.
Notes:
Book of hours for the use of Utrecht (calendar), in the Gerard Groote translation; written and illuminated in the northern Netherlands, probably Haarlem, ca. 1445-1460.
Decoration: 10 full-page miniatures (inserted), 14 historiated initials, full borders on pages with miniatures or historiated initials; Dutch Gothic style.
Artist: Master of the Haarlem Bible.
Script:
textura
Language:
Dutch
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