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Missal

Temporale (Easter); Sanctorale

F-gdht

Antwerpen, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, MMB.0623

Godfried Croenen, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Missal
Shelfmarks MMB.0623
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin second quarter 15th century
Script, Hands

Northern Gothica Textualis formata

Original Condition

Page Height 367 – 370 mm
Page Width 268 – 270 mm
Height of Written Area 260 mm
Width of Written Area 175 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 90 mm
Number of Lines 33
Line Height 5 mm
Ruling full leadpoint ruling
Numbering

The first leaf of each bifolium numbered, but the conjugate leaves not numbered.
More about the Condition

The text on the bifolia is not consecutive, so none of them was originally the inner bifolium of a quire.

Current Condition

Extent 3 bifolia

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Persons: Masters of Otto van Moerdrecht
Description

Three historiated initials:

Fol. 127r: letter 'R'; Christ rising from the tomb, three sleeping soldiers around him.

Fol. 187r: letter 'D'; the apostles Peter and Paul fishing from a boat in the sea of Galilea.

Fol. 252r: letter 'E'; the twelve apostles; God speaking from a cloud.

Plain initials alternating red and blue (some with pen work); versals; colour stroking; rubrics red and underlined.

History

Origin

Lieftinck has argued on the basis of similarities with a five-volume bible copied at the convent of Agnietenberg by Thomas a Kemps, (Darmstad, Hs. 323) that the missal was copied at Agnietenberg for use of the convent. The art-historical, codicological and historical evidence, however, indicates that the bible was not illuminated at the convent, so there is little evidence to link the missal to the convent as the connection between both relates to the style of the secondary illumination. Both the bible and the fragments of the missal were probably illuminated by artisans based nearby, in Zwolle, or in the wider region of the IJssel. 
Persons and Institutions Convent of St Agnietenberg (Zwolle) (doubtful)

Bibliography

  • De Coo, Jozef, Museum Mayer van den Bergh. Catalogus 1: Schilderijen, verluchte handschriften, tekeningen, derde uitgave, geheel opnieuw bijgewerkt (Antwerpen: Govaerts, 1978), p. 184-185, no. 302.
  • Lieftinck, Gerard Isaac, ‘Windesheim, Agnietenberg en Marianborn en hun aandeel in de Noordnederlandse boekverluchting’, in Dancwerc. Opstellen aangeboden aan Prof. Dr. D. Th. Enklaar ter gelegenheid van zijn vijfenzestigste verjaardag (Groningen: J.B. Wolters, 1959), p. 200–201, 203.
  • Van Bergen, Saskia, ‘De Meesters van Otto van Moerdrecht. Een onderzoek naar de stijl en iconografie van een groep miniaturisten, in relatie tot de productie van getijdenboeken in Brugge rond 1430’ (unpublished Ph.D., Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2007), p. 385-386.
  • Wierda, Lydia, De Sarijs-handschriften: laat-middeleeuwse handschriften uit de IJsselstreek (Zwolle: Waanders, 1995), p. 6 (n. 4), 12, 14, 187.
  • Lem, Aafje B., and Lydia S. Wierda, ‘De IJsselstreek’, in Kriezels, aubergines en takkenbossen: randversiering in Noordnederlandse handschriften uit de vijftiende eeuw, ed. by Anne S. Korteweg (’s-Gravenhage: Rijksmuseum Meermanno-Westreenianum, 1992), p. 117.
  • Marrow, James H., Henri L. M. Defoer, Anne S. Korteweg, and Wilhelmina C. M. Wüstefeld, The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting (Stuttgart: Belser Verlag, 1989), p. 84, no. 24.
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