Book of hours
Ms. book of hours; written and illuminated in the the southern Netherlands, perhaps in Ghent, ca. 1490.
Decoration: 12 full page miniatures; 3 smaller miniatures; 3 miniatures each in a border panel; 18 historiated initials; decorated initials, line-fillers, and borders throughout.
The subjects of the full page miniatures are as follows: 1. (fol. 15v) King David in Penitence -- 2. (fol. 30v) Virgin kneeling before the Trinity -- 3. (fol. 32v) Resurrection -- 4. (fol. 93v) Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin -- 5. (fol. 97v) Annunciation to the Virgin -- 6. (fol. 101v) Pietà -- 7. (fol. 118v) Holy Family -- 8. (fol. 123v) St. Christopher carrying the Christ Child -- 9. (fol. 125v) St. Anne, the Virgin, and Christ Child -- 10. (fol. 128v) St. Jerome in the Wilderness -- 11. (fol. 132v) St. Barbara -- 12. (fol. 135v) St. Catherine. The subjects of the smaller miniatures are as follows: 1. (fol. 34r) Adoration of the Magi -- 2. (fol. 35r) St. Wilgefortis crucified -- 3. (fol. 36r) St. Susannah. The subjects of the border miniatures are as follows: 1. (fol. 31v) St. Francis receiving the stigmata -- 2. (fol. 156r) Vision of St. Hubert -- 3. (fol. 163v) Martyrdom of St. Erasmus. The subjects of the historiated initials are as follows: 1. (fol. 45r) The Veronica -- 2. (fol. 44r) The Dove -- 3. (fol. 140r) St. Mary Magdalen -- 4. (fol. 140v) St. Ursula, protecting some of the 11000 Virgins under her cloak -- 5. (fol. 141v) St. Lucy -- 6. (fol. 142r) St. Gertrude -- 7. (fol. 143r) St. Genevieve -- 8. (fol. 143v) A guardian angel -- 9. (fol. 153v) St. Cornelius -- 10. (fol. 154v) St. Sebastian, dressed as an archer -- 11. (fol. 155r) St. Leonard -- 12. (fol. 156v) St. Anthony -- 13. (fol. 158r) St. John the Baptist -- 14. (fol. 159r) St. John the Evangelist -- 15. (fol. 160r) St. Peter -- 16. (fol. 161r) St. Paul -- 17. (fol. 162r) St. Nicholas -- 18. (fol. 162v) St. George defeating the dragon.--Cf. Sotheby's.
Artists: Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximilian (fols. 15v and 31v), and an unnamed artist.
Professor Eberhard Konig has described the style of M.1167's unnamed artist as lying somewhere between that of the Master of the Wavrin of Edward IV (British Library, Royal MS. 14 E.iv), and that of the Hours of Nikolaus von Firmian (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Hs. 241).--Cf. Sotheby's
Collation: 1-38, 4-56, 6-128, 136, 14-158, 164, 176, 188+1 (fol. 134 inserted), 19-218, 226, with full page miniatures inserted on single leaves; prickings often survive in all three outer margins, ruled in pale red ink for 21 lines of text per page, ca. 100 x 65 mm.--Cf. Sotheby's.