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1274  :  Hours (Delft, Holland, Utrecht)

Number

1274


Shelf Marks

  • Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 138

Owners before c.1550

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Commissioners

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Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Holland
    • Towns : Delft
    • Details : Delft
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1480-1490
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • 207 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 174 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 124 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 2 leaves lost (probably with miniatures)
  • Total number of illustrations : 6
  • Number of miniatures : 6
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Herman Droem

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 18th c.: gold-tooled brown leather over pasteboards (Holland)
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

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Translators

  • Geert Groote

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (Delft, Holland, Utrecht)

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. 148 (pl. 154)

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.199, p.221, p.277

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. 041

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. 116

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman