Book of Hours

Shelfmark The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 75 G 2

Origin & date Diocese Liège (Tongres?); c. 1450-1500. Added miniatures: Diocese Liège; c. 1450-1500

Physical description

Vellum, ff. 296, 138x98 (95x62) mm, 17 lines (ff. 197-275: 19 lines, littera hybrida. Dutch. Binding: 16th-century brown leather (rebacked)

Illumination

Decorated initials with or without border decoration (ff. 14r, 93r, 133r); penwork initials with pen-flourishes in 2 styles (ff. 65r, 158v, 181r (partly with painted eye) and ff. 66r, 159v, 197r, 206r, 231r)

Provenance

A. Bogaers (d. 1870); presented in 1870 by his daughter together with the collection of Bogaers

Bibliography

Libri Theol. 1922, no. 323. - Hasselt 1954, no. 87. - Brandhorst & Broekhuijsen-Kruijer 1985, no. 389

Note

Liège calendar: feasts in red include Dedication of the Church of Tongres (7 May), St. Lambertus (28 April, 17 September), St. Servaes (11 May), St. Giles (1 September), St. Maternus (25 September), St. Denis (9 October), St. Hubertus (3 November), St. Leonardus (6 November). Litany: St. Augustine first among the confessors. 1 mounted coloured woodcut (f. 205v) with printed border decoration (Entry of Christ in Jerusalem)

All catalogue fields

Type	Manuscript book
NU	xxx
Language of record	nl
Source project(s)	MSS; BYVANCK; KBMSS
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 75 G 2
Title (index form)	Book of Hours in Dutch
Language of origin code	sn
Place of origin	Liège, Diocese (Tongres?)
Date of origin	1450-1500
Decoration style	Liège style decoration
Related names/collections	Bogaers, A. Coll.
Cataloguer's note	ask 1-00. 7-2000; Dodenvigilie en mariagetijden volgen Geert Grote
Language	Dutch
Language (Dutch)	Nederlands
Classification code	01 A 33 1
Geographic code	02 DI LI; 01 BE 02 FL LI TO

2 illuminations catalogued

f. 64vfull-page miniature

The Agony in the Garden: Christ prays in Gethsemane

1450-1500

73D31211

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	1148
Sequence (global)	7715
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 75 G 2
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 75 G 2
Image size (mm)	117x76
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd
Scene order key	64v
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 75G2_064V_MIN.JPG

f. 196vfull-page miniature

Madonna: Mary sitting on the crescent, holding the Christ-child

1450-1500

11F4135(+0)11F715 11F721 11F731 11G23

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	1149
Sequence (global)	7716
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 75 G 2
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 75 G 2
Image size (mm)	100x61
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd. Check: in plaats van (+3) misschien een aparte code 11G25 = Angels in adoration?
Scene order key	196v
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 75G2_196V_MIN.JPG