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Croesinck hours.

Accession number
MS M.1078
Object title
Croesinck hours.
Created
Netherlands, ca. 1494.
Binding
19th-century (?) red velvet over 15th-century brown vegetable-tanned calfskin, possibly blind-stamped, over wooden boards; covered endbands with saddle-stitching. 19th-century (?) silver-gilt catches and clasps, with initials C and H joined by a love-knot.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund and with a special gift of Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1988.
Description
171 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 215 x 150 mm
Provenance
Ca. 1494, made for Cornelis Croesinck (d. 1519) and his second wife Hildegard van Alkemade, pictured on fol. 121v, their initials C and H, joined by love-knots, on the clasps of the binding; their arms, with unidentified initials GAL on 109v: on the left: quartered, 1 and 4, azure, three tumblers argent, 1 and 3, gules, a lion rampant or, armed and langued azure (Croesinck); mantling, azure and argent; crest: on a torse, gules and or, a figure, or, holding up a goblet between two wings, argent; on the right: supported by a griffon, the arms argent, sable, armed and crowned, or (Alkemade) impaled by Croesinck; on fol. 1r: oval stamp with BIBLIOTH. DU COLLEGE N.D. A ANVERS; (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe College, Antwerp); William Bragge of Sheffield; his sale, London, Sotheby's, June 7, 1876, lot 227; T. Shadford Walker, Liverpool; his sale, London, Sotheby's, June 23, 1886, lot 198; Robert Hoe; by descent to his granddaughter, Ellen James Evans (Mrs. Robert J. Lewis) and Robert Lewis.
Notes
Book of hours for the use of Utrecht (calendar), in the Gerard Groote translation; written and illuminated in the northern Netherlands, ca. 1494.
Decoration: 12 large miniatures, 4 small miniatures, 28 historiated initials, 3 historiated borders, 12 border scenes, numerous illuminated borders and initials; Dutch Gothic style.
Artist: Master of Cornelis Croesinck.
Contents
fols. 1r-6v: Calendar -- fol. 7r: Blank -- fols. 7v-34v: Hours of the Virgin (lacks end) -- fols. 35r-51v: Long Hours of the Cross (lacks beginning) -- fol. 52r: Blank -- fols. 52v-55v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fol. 56r: Blank, but ruled -- fols. 56v-66v: Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fol. 67r: Blank -- fols. 67v-85r: Hours of Eternal Wisdom -- fol. 85v: Blank, but ruled -- fol. 86r: Blank -- fols. 86v-88r: Seven Prayers of Gregory the Great -- fols. 88v-93r: Communion Prayers -- fols. 93v-103v: Seven Last Words of Our Lord, followed by other prayers -- fol. 104r: Blank -- fols. 104v-108v: Short Hours of Sorrows of the Virgin -- fol. 109r: Blank -- fols. 109v-121r: Prayers to the Virgin -- fols. 121r-127v: Suffrages -- fol. 128r: Blank -- fols. 128v-142v: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fol. 143r: Blank -- fols. 143v-171r: Office of the Dead -- fol. 171v: Blank, but ruled.
Script
textura
Language
Dutch
Classification