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Abstract
This illuminated manuscript is a document of the first importance in the history of Dutch manuscript illumination and contains an important medieval Dutch devotional text. The Tafel van den Kersten ghelove is a compendium of Christian knowledge written by a learned Dominican, Dirc van Delf. The text is in two parts, one for winter, one for summer. This manuscript is of the winter part and is incomplete, omitting the prologue and chapters 13, 14, and 35-57. The arms of the Bavarian counts of Holland and the kneeling owner on fol. 1r indicate that this manuscript was the actual copy prepared for the dedicatee of the text, Albrecht of Bavaria, Count of Holland, from the original text of his chaplain, and is therefore to be dated to 1404 at the latest, when Albrecht died. The manuscript contains 165 folios and thirty-five historiated initials.
Hand note
Written in Gothic bookhand; instructions to the rubricator in tiny noting hand found in columns in the gutter (e.g. fols. 43r, 52v-53r, and 81r); possible second hand found on the last folio of text (fol. 165r) in a more angular version of the same script
Contributors
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Cataloger: Devine, Alex
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Bibliography
Daniels, L. M., ed. Meester Dirc van Delf, O.P.: Tafel van den Kersten Ghelove. 3 vols. Antwerp: Neerlandia, 1937-1939.
Rickert, Margaret. "The Illuminated Manuscripts of Meester Dirc van Delf's Tafel van den Kersten Ghelove." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 12 (1949): 78-108, figs. 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 14, 16, 17, 19, 21, 25, 26.
Miner, Dorothy. "Manuscript Exhibition." Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery 4, no. 6 (1952): 2-3.
Walters Art Gallery. The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1962, pp. 70-71, no. 67, pl. 43.
Lane, Barbara Greenhouse. "The Development of the Medieval Devotional Figure." PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1971, p. 181, fig. 210 (fol. 1r).
University Art Gallery, Notre Dame, Indiana. Medieval Art, 1060-1550: Dorothy Miner Memorial. Indiana: Notre Dame University, 1974, no. 22.
Marrow, James H., Henri L. M. Defoer, Anne S. Korteweg, and Wilhelmina C. M. Wüstefeld. The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting. New York: George Braziller, 1990, pp. 33-34, no. 4.
Marrow, James H. As Horas De Margarida De Cleves. Lisboa: Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, 1995, pp. 14, 46-47, figs. 2, 8.
Priem, Rob, et al. The Hours of Catherine of Cleves: Devotion, Demons, and Daily Life in the Fifteenth Century. New York: The Morgan Library and Museum, 2009, pp. 218-19, no. 39.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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Origin Place
Utrecht, Netherlands
Date
1400-1404 CE
Form
book
Binding
Non-original Binding
Binding Description
Red velvet over pasteboard; bound by Gruel in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Provenance
Albert, Duke of Bavaria and Count of Holland
Gruel and Engelman collection, Paris, no. 93, before 1931
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Origin Place
Utrecht, Netherlands
Date
1400-1404 CE
Form
book
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Provenance
Albert, Duke of Bavaria and Count of Holland
Gruel and Engelman collection, Paris, no. 93, before 1931
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Abstract
This illuminated manuscript is a document of the first importance in the history of Dutch manuscript illumination and contains an important medieval Dutch devotional text. The Tafel van den Kersten ghelove is a compendium of Christian knowledge written by a learned Dominican, Dirc van Delf. The text is in two parts, one for winter, one for summer. This manuscript is of the winter part and is incomplete, omitting the prologue and chapters 13, 14, and 35-57. The arms of the Bavarian counts of Holland and the kneeling owner on fol. 1r indicate that this manuscript was the actual copy prepared for the dedicatee of the text, Albrecht of Bavaria, Count of Holland, from the original text of his chaplain, and is therefore to be dated to 1404 at the latest, when Albrecht died. The manuscript contains 165 folios and thirty-five historiated initials.
Hand note
Written in Gothic bookhand; instructions to the rubricator in tiny noting hand found in columns in the gutter (e.g. fols. 43r, 52v-53r, and 81r); possible second hand found on the last folio of text (fol. 165r) in a more angular version of the same script
Contributors
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Cataloger: Devine, Alex
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Editor: Noel, William
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Dutschke, Consuelo
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Bibliography
Daniels, L. M., ed. Meester Dirc van Delf, O.P.: Tafel van den Kersten Ghelove. 3 vols. Antwerp: Neerlandia, 1937-1939.
Rickert, Margaret. "The Illuminated Manuscripts of Meester Dirc van Delf's Tafel van den Kersten Ghelove." Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 12 (1949): 78-108, figs. 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 14, 16, 17, 19, 21, 25, 26.
Miner, Dorothy. "Manuscript Exhibition." Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery 4, no. 6 (1952): 2-3.
Walters Art Gallery. The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1962, pp. 70-71, no. 67, pl. 43.
Lane, Barbara Greenhouse. "The Development of the Medieval Devotional Figure." PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1971, p. 181, fig. 210 (fol. 1r).
University Art Gallery, Notre Dame, Indiana. Medieval Art, 1060-1550: Dorothy Miner Memorial. Indiana: Notre Dame University, 1974, no. 22.
Marrow, James H., Henri L. M. Defoer, Anne S. Korteweg, and Wilhelmina C. M. Wüstefeld. The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting. New York: George Braziller, 1990, pp. 33-34, no. 4.
Marrow, James H. As Horas De Margarida De Cleves. Lisboa: Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, 1995, pp. 14, 46-47, figs. 2, 8.
Priem, Rob, et al. The Hours of Catherine of Cleves: Devotion, Demons, and Daily Life in the Fifteenth Century. New York: The Morgan Library and Museum, 2009, pp. 218-19, no. 39.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Upper board outside
Lower board outside
Spine
Fore-edge
Head
Tail
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