Prayer Book

Shelfmark The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 134 C 53

Origin & date Maastricht, probably Convent Maagdendriesch, Tertiaries; c. 1500-1525. Added leaf (f. 115): Maaseik; c. 1480-1500. Added drawings: Maastricht(?); 16th century

Physical description

Paper (and vellum), ff. 306, 140x105 (90x60) mm, 23-24 lines, littera hybrida. Dutch. Binding: 18th-century brown leather, blind and gilt

Illumination

Decorated initials with border decoration in Limburg style (ff. 18r; `large flowers': ff. 75r); penwork initials with penflourishes (ff. 32r, 36v, 42v, 49v, 62v, etc.)

Provenance

Th. Sonner (19th cent.). A. Labitte, Paris (c. 1895). Albert Hyma, Ann Arbor, Mich. (1919); acquired from Hyma by H. Bos Kzn. and presented in 1957 to the KB

Bibliography

Labitte 1893, pp. 300-301, figs. 232-233. - Le Manuscrit 1894, pp. 174-175, fig. - Brandhorst & Broekhuijsen-Kruijer 1985, no. 317. - CMD-NL 2 1988, p. 162. - Stooker & Verbeij 1997, 2, no. 899

Note

Liège calendar: feasts in red include: St. Servatius (13 May), his translation (7 June) and Dedication of the Church of St. Servatius (9 September), St. Francis `onse vader` (4 October), St. Denis (9 October), St. Hubertus (3 November, St. Leonardus (6 November). F. 15r: Circle with dates 1500-1519

All catalogue fields

Type	Manuscript book
NU	xxx
Language of record	nl
Source project(s)	MSS; BYVANCK; KBMSS
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 134 C 53
Title (index form)	Prayer Book in Dutch
Language of origin code	sn
Place of origin	Maastricht(?); Maastricht, (Convent Maagdendries, Tertiaries?)
Date of origin	1500 (c.); 1500-1600
Decoration style	Limburg decoration (`Maaseik'); Limburg decoration (`large flowers')
Related names/collections	Bos Kzn, H.; Hyma, A.; Labitte,A.
Cataloguer's note	GG ask dec. 99. 7-2000
Language	Dutch
Language (Dutch)	Nederlands
Classification code	01 A 41
Geographic code	01 NL 02 LI MA; 01 NL 02 LI MA MA

3 illuminations catalogued

f. 1rfull-page coloured drawing (unframed)

St. Laurence of Rome holding a gridiron and a book

1500 (c.)

11H(LAURENCE)11Q71467(DALMATIC)44G321(GRIDIRON)49LL72 49N

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	6546
Sequence (global)	9460
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 134 C 53
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 134 C 53
Image size (mm)	125x90
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd. Open book
Scene order key	1r
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 134C53_001R_MIN.JPG

f. 15vfull-page coloured drawing (unframed)

The martyrdom of St. Sebastian: an angel unties him from the tree in the presence of two bowmen

1500 (c.)

11H(SEBASTIAN)621 11H(SEBASTIAN)64 31EE23461

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	6547
Sequence (global)	9461
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 134 C 53
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 134 C 53
Image size (mm)	80x50
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd
Scene order key	15v
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 134C53_015V_MIN.JPG

f. 306rfull-page coloured drawing (unframed)

St. Domitian holding a crozier and the model of a church, and trampling a dragon

1500 (c.)

11H(DOMITIAN)11P31131 11Q712 25FF411(+713)31A2726 48C1422

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	6548
Sequence (global)	9462
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 134 C 53
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 134 C 53
Image size (mm)	90x60
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd
Scene order key	306r
Language of origin code	2 Southern Netherlands
Note	Not available = 134C53_306R_MIN.JPG