Book of Hours

Shelfmark The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 74 G 30

Origin & date South Holland; 1489. Added: 1 miniature: South Holland; c. 1500

Physical description

Vellum, ff. 165, 130x88 (62x42) mm, 17 lines, littera hybrida. Dutch. Binding: 16th-/17th-century black leather, blind

Illumination

Decorated initials with border decoration in South Holland style (`anecdotical monkeys'; ff. 19r, 68r, 81r, 106r, 143r, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes in South Holland style (`aubergine'; ff. 7r, 50v, 92v, 141v, 155v, etc. )

Provenance

Families Van Schoten and Van Egmond (c. 1570-1620). Acquired in 1807 as part of the collection of J. Romswinckel of Leyden

Bibliography

Byvanck 1931, p. 42. - Brandhorst & Broekhuijsen-Kruijer 1985, no. 287. - Korteweg 1987, pp. 510, 512 nt. 17, fig. 3. - CMD-NL 2 1988, no. 456, pl. 798a. - The Hague 1992, no. 50, fig.

Note

Utrecht calendar: besides the usual Utrecht entries feasts in black include St. Jeroen, patron saint of Noordwijk (August 17, underlined in red)

All catalogue fields

Type	Manuscript book
NU	xxx
Language of record	nl
Source project(s)	MSS; BYVANCK; KBMSS
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 74 G 30
Title (index form)	Book of Hours in Dutch
Language of origin code	nn
Place of origin	South Holland
Date of origin	1489; 1500 (c.)
Decoration style	South Holland penwork (`aubergine'); South Holland decoration (`anecdotical monkeys')
Related names/collections	Romswinckel, J.; Schoten, Van, fam.; Egmond, Van, fam.
Cataloguer's note	ask 4-6-99. 5-00. 9-2000
Language	Dutch
Language (Dutch)	Nederlands
Classification code	01 A 33 1
Geographic code	01 NL 02 SH

1 illumination catalogued

f. 5vminiature

Madonna: Mary holding the Christ-child, in a rose-bush

1489

11FF4122 11F4233(+0)11F723 25G31(ROSE-BUSH)25G41(ROSE)44A1 46A122(...)1

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	939
Sequence (global)	6135
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 74 G 30
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 74 G 30
Image size (mm)	130x87
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd
Scene order key	5v
Language of origin code	1 Northern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 74G30_005V_MIN.JPG