Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Tafel van den Kersten Ghelove.

Accession number
MS M.691
Object title
Tafel van den Kersten Ghelove.
Created
Netherlands, perhaps Utrecht, ca. 1405-1410.
Binding
16th-century (1572?) brown calf over boards; on front flyleaf is an inscription in Dutch that the manuscript was bound in present binding in 1572.
Description
226 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 217 x 152 mm
Provenance
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (1396-1467) (MS is listed in the inventory of his estate made in Lille, 1469); 1572, Floris van Outheusden (fol. 1, acquired from the Eindhoven Augustinians by a female member of the Smits van Oijen family; from there passed to Th.G.M. Smits van Oijen and his widow Douairière W.J.Th.H. Smits van Oijen-Regout; purchased from Maggs (Maggs, cat. 456 (1924), no. 143, pl. XXXII-XXXIII.) in 1924.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in the Netherlands, perhaps in Utrecht, ca. 1405-1410.
Chapters XXXI-LIII are incomplete.
Decoration: 24 historiated initials (all D), small illuminated initials throughout.
Artists: Sacrament Master and other Masters of Dirc van Delf.
Script
littera textualis
Language
Dutch
Century
Classification