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Tongerloo missal (MS M.983).

Accession number
MS M.983
Object title
Tongerloo missal (MS M.983).
Created
Belgium, 1552.
Binding
Contemporary gold-tooled calf over wooden boards, with armorial stamp of Tongerloo on lower cover; brass corner-pieces.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. John A. Saks, 1978.
Description
317 leaves (2 columns, 40-42 lines), bound, vellum ; 367 x 260 mm
Provenance
Made for Abbot Arnold Streyters (1496-1560), who was abbot of Tongerloo from 1530 until his death; Tongerloo Abbey London, Quaritch, catalogue 271, 1909, p. 55-56, no. 613; John Meade Falkner; his sale, London, Sotheby's, Dec. 12, 1932, no. 307; to Marks; Dr. Krause; Chaucer Head Bookstore, New York; John A. Saks.
Notes
Ms. missal for Premonstratensian use; written and illuminated in Belgium and dated 1552 on fol. 253v.
Decoration: 6 miniatures (1 inserted and 1 unfinished), with spaces left for others; 42 colored woodcut historiated initials; many illuminated initials in a Renaissance style, 2 with arms of Tongerloo (fol. 171r and 254r), 2 with the letters ARNO, presumably a reference to Abbott Arnold Streyters (fol. 201r, 225v); 1 illuminated border.
The illumination of M.983 is unfinished. 1 miniature was not completed and spaces have been left for other miniatures that were never executed.
Musical notation: 10 and 13 staves of 4 red lines with square notation.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
Classification