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2356  :  Speculum humanae salvationis

Number

2356


Shelf Marks

  • New York, Public Library, Spencer 15
  • J. Wassenbergh (1634)
  • P. Wassenbergh

Owners before c.1550

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Commissioners

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Country

USA


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Eastern Northern Netherlands (incl. Guelders)
    • Details : Guelders / Lower Rhine
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1410-1420
    • Half centuries : 1400-1449
    • Decade : 1410 - 1419

Physical description

Measurements

  • 049 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 300-324 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 311 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 214 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 193
  • Number of miniatures : 193
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : 1700-1800


Content

Genre

biblical

Authors

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Translators

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Contents

  • 1 : Speculum humanae salvationis

Languages

  • Latin

Bibliography

Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996, cat. no. 18

Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James H. Marrow & Lucy Freeman Sandler (with the assistance of Elisabeth Moodey and Todor T. Petev), The Splendor of the Word. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, exhib. cat., New York-London-Turnhout 2005, no. 26

The Limburg Brothers. Masters from Nijmegen at the French Court 1400-1416, exhib. cat., Nijmegen 2005, p.78

Online Informations and images

http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/exist/scriptorium/individual/NN-Spncr-158.xml

Photo Archives

Leuven, Illuminare, Slides nos. 02275-94

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman