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1276  :  Hours (Utrecht)

Number

1276


Shelf Marks

  • Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 141

Owners before c.1550

  • (depicted woman and man)

Commissioners

  • (depicted woman and man)
    • Gender : Couple

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Sticht
    • Towns : Utrecht
    • Details : Utrecht (Carthusian convent)
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1430
    • Half centuries : 1400-1449
    • Decade : 1430 - 1439

Physical description

Measurements

  • 235 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 150-174 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 162 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 114 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 24
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials : 24
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Emblems and Heraldry

inscriptions with mottos and emblems, "Pol, Bastart de Gavere", "Sonder Arch de Zwal"(?), "Vinan de Cruyningen"

Miniaturists

  • M Zweder van Culemborg
  • M Otto van Moerdrecht ?

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

books of hours and prayer books

Authors

/

Translators

  • Geert Groote

Contents

  • 1 : Hours (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. 038 (pl. 127, 128)

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.109

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. 015

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. 081

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman