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.
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
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