Spiegel van den leven ons Heren
Accession number:
MS M.868
Title:
Spiegel van den leven ons Heren
Created:
Brabant, the Netherlands, ca. 1455.
Binding:
16th century soft vellum, fold over, with bronze clasp.
Credit:
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.
Script:
littera hybrida and littera cursiva bastarda
Language:
Dutch
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