1779 : Hours (of Catharina van Wassenaer)
Number
1779
Shelf Marks
- Leiden, UB, BPL 3091
- Antwerpen, Cales
- Seligman 1952, no. 26
- Enghien, Ducs d'Arenberg
- Fam. Jaqueline (17th c.)
Owners before c.1550
- Catharina van Wassenaer (wife of Joost van Cruiningen)
Commissioners
- Nobility
- Gender : Couple
Country
Netherlands
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Holland
- Details : Holland / Ghent ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1490-1500
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1490 - 1499
Physical description
Measurements
- 128 leaves
- Size categories of height : 125-149 mm
- Height of text blocks : 143 mm
- Width of text blocks : 105 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 15
- Number of miniatures : 8
- Number of historiated initials : 7
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Dark Eyes (M Cornelis Croesinck) (M Catharina van Wassenaar)
- M Mary of Burgundy ??
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
books of hours and prayer books
Authors
/
Translators
/
Contents
- 1 : Hours (of Catharina van Wassenaer)
Languages
- Latin
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.294, p.286
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.373
Klara Broekhuijsen, ‘The Reconstruction of the Book of Hours of Catharina van Wassenaer’, Quaerendo, 33 (2003), 54-76
J. Seligman, Illuminated manuscripts from the Bibliothèque of Their Highnesses the Dukes of Arenberg, New York, 1952, no. 26 (1 ill.)
Online Informations and images
See: https://socrates.leidenuniv.nl/; http://www.mmdc.nl