1231 : Breviary / Psalter
Number
1231
Shelf Marks
- Cambridge (MA), Houghton Library, typ 132
- Ph. Hofer
- Maggs (1944)
- E Duff Balken
Owners before c.1550
- (Franciscans, Delft)
Commissioners
- (Franciscans, Delft)
- Institution: ecclesiastical
- Gender : Institution
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Esdras
Origin
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Place
- Region : Holland
- Towns : Delft
- Details : Delft ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1475
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 254 leaves
- Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
- Height of text blocks : 171 mm
- Width of text blocks : 116 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 1 large, 29 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 35
- Number of miniatures : 30
- Number of historiated initials : 5
- Number of grisailles :
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
liturgical
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Breviary / Psalter
Languages
- Dutch
Bibliography
Henri L.M. Defoer, Anne S. Korteweg & Wilhelmina C.M. Wüstefeld, The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting, exhib. cat., New York-Utrecht-Stuttgart 1989, p.195
Roger S. Wieck, Late medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, 1350-1525, in the Houghton Library, Cambridge (Mass.) 1983, p. 124 (ill. 151)
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/3683964; http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/early_manuscripts/about.cfm
Responsable
Hanno Wijsman