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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

  • Place
    • Region : Holland
    • Details : Holland / Ghent ?
  • 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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman