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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

  • Place
    • Region : Holland
    • Towns : Delft
    • Details : Delft ?
  • 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