Accession number
MS S.2
Object title
Book of hours (MS S.2).
Display Date
1496.
Created
The Netherlands, possibly Haarlem, 1496.
Binding
18th-century Dutch red morocco over board, gilt, silver clasps, catches, and corner pieces.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Description
169 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 104 x 69 mm
Provenance
Made in 1496 probably for the woman represented on folio 78, initials S and K on folio 64; Alfred Barmore Maclay, New York; E. Clark Stillman Collection.
Notes
Ms. book of hours, use of the Augustinian Canons of the Windesheim Chapter (Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, Short Hours of the Cross, Office of the Dead), calendar for Utrecht; written and illuminated in the Netherlands, possibly Haarlem, dated 1496.
Decoration: 7 full-page (inserted) miniatures, 38 historiated initials, 2 historiated borders, 16 historiated marginal illustrations.
Artist: Spierinck (signed and dated 1496 on fols. 18, 74, 78, 125), possibly Sybrant or Jan.
Decoration: 7 full-page (inserted) miniatures, 38 historiated initials, 2 historiated borders, 16 historiated marginal illustrations.
Artist: Spierinck (signed and dated 1496 on fols. 18, 74, 78, 125), possibly Sybrant or Jan.
Script
textura
Language
Dutch and Latin
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