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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

  • Place
    • Region : Holland
    • Towns : Delft
    • Details : Delft (St Agnes convent)
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman