Prayer Book

Shelfmark The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 134 C 63

Origin & date Western Germany; c. 1500

Physical description

Vellum, ff. 177, 121x80 (88x54) mm, 16 lines, littera hybrida. Lower German. Binding: 16th(?)-century brown leather, blind, gilt on spine

Illumination

1 historiated initial (25x30 mm) with pen-flourishes; 1 decorated initial (ff. 105r); penwork initials with and without pen-flourishes (ff. 1r, 42r, 57r, 116v, 134r, etc.)

Provenance

Suster Anna Neiszerts (17th cent.). H. von Aussem (18th cent.). W. Merton, Richmond, Surrey (19th/20th cent.). Purchased in 1958 from antiquarian bookseller M. Breslauer, London

Bibliography

Brandhorst & Broekhuijsen-Kruijer 1985, no. 492

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 63
Title (index form)	Prayer Book in German
Language of origin code	du
Place of origin	Western Germany
Date of origin	1500 (c.)
Related names/collections	Breslauer, M., London (antiq.); Neiszerts, Anna, sister; Aussem, H. von; Merton, W.
Language	German
Language (Dutch)	Duits
Classification code	01 A 41
Geographic code	01 GE 01 07

1 illumination catalogued

f. 90rhistoriated initial

Man of Sorrows: Christ in his tomb with the Instruments of the Passion

Prayer on the Passion of Christ

1500 (c.)

49L12(O)49L171 73D731

All catalogue fields

Sequence no.	6570
Sequence (global)	10451
Shelfmark	The Hague, KB, 134 C 63
Shelfmark (Dutch)	Den Haag, KB, 134 C 63
Image size (mm)	24x30
Type	manuscript illumination
Cataloguer's note	tgvgd gcdrd
Scene order key	90r
Language of origin code	4 Germany
Note	Not available = 134C63_090R_INIT.JPG