Accession number
MS M.868
Object title
Spiegel van den leven ons Heren and other works.
Created
Brabant, the Netherlands, ca. 1455.
Binding
16th century soft vellum, fold over, with bronze clasp.
Credit line
Purchased in 1953.
Description
89 leaves (1 column, 34-35 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 200 x 140 mm
Provenance
Number 34 in a 17th-century library; Jan Six van Hillegom en Wimmenum (1857-1926), Amsterdam; his sale, Amsterdam, 1928, lot 189; purchased from James F. Drake, Inc. in 1953.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Brabant, the Netherlands, ca. 1455.
Texts: typological life of Christ and Mary; devotional and hagiographic tracts; first section written in littera hybrida; second section written in littera cursiva bastarda.
Decoration: 42 full-page miniatures (1 inserted fol. 9), 1 decorated initial with border design.
Artist: Master of Peter Danielssoen.
Texts: typological life of Christ and Mary; devotional and hagiographic tracts; first section written in littera hybrida; second section written in littera cursiva bastarda.
Decoration: 42 full-page miniatures (1 inserted fol. 9), 1 decorated initial with border design.
Artist: Master of Peter Danielssoen.
Script
littera hybrida and littera cursiva bastarda
Language
Dutch
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