1251 : Vita Christi
Number
1251
Shelf Marks
- Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 25
- Haarlem, Ter Zijl Convent, prioress Marytghen Jans
Owners before c.1550
- Beatrijs van Assendelft
- St Maria ter Zijl convent, Haarlem
Commissioners
- Beatrijs van Assendelft (nun, The Hague; canoness of Ter Zijl, Haarlem))
- Nobility
- Gender : Woman
Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Holland
- Towns : Delft
- Details : Delft (St Agnes convent)
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Date
- Date details : c.1470-1480
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 198 (3+192+3) leaves
- Size categories of height : 250-274 mm
- Height of text blocks : 270 mm
- Width of text blocks : 190 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 30
- Number of miniatures : 30
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Beatrijs van Assendelft's Vita Christi (M Delft Half-Length Figures)
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
Authors
- Ludolphus de Saxonia
Translators
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Contents
- 1 : Vita Christi
Languages
- Dutch
Bibliography
Alexander Willem Byvanck & G.J. Hoogewerff, Noord-Nederlandsche miniaturen in handschriften der 14e, 15e en 16e eeuwen, 3 vols., The Hague 1922-1925, no. 128 (pl. 133-135, fig. 92, 93)
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.196, p.204, p.274
Nigel Morgan & Stella Panayotova, with the assistance of Martine Meuwese, Elisabeth New, Suzanne Reynolds, Hanna Vorholt, Andrea Worm, A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part I: The Low Countries, Germania, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary, 2 vols., Cambridge 2009, no. 033
Francis Wormald & Phyllis M. Giles, A descriptive catalogue of the additional illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum acquired between 1895 and 1979 (excluding the McClean Collection), 2 vols., Cambridge 1982, no. 115