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BOOK OF HOURS, use of Utrecht, in Dutch with some incipits in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Diocese of Utrecht, 1490s]
191 x 140mm. ii + 81 + vi leaves: 18, 29(vi singleton with miniature, probably lacking an initial singleton with miniature), 311(ii, v and vii singletons with miniatures), 49(i, v and ix singletons with miniatures), 510(iv singleton with miniature, x singleton), 69(i singleton with miniature), 78, 89(ii singleton with miniature), stubs of two missing leaves, the first with border (offset on f.73v) and presumably miniature, 98, 24 lines written in brown ink in a bastard bookhand between two verticals and 25 horizontals ruled in pink, justification: 118 x 78mm, rubrics in red, text capitals touched red, one- and two-line initials in liquid gold on grounds alternately of blue and dark pink, four-line initials with acanthus staves, one with a wildman, in brown and liquid gold on dark pink or green grounds or with staves of burnished gold on 'textile' grounds in dark pink and liquid gold, THIRTY-TWO SCATTER BORDERS strewn with flowers, fruit, acanthus, beasts, birds, insects and wildmen on coloured grounds, some framed in burnished gold, SIX WITH MINIATURES, eleven filigree borders in burnished gold, most borders associated with the ONE HISTORIATED INITIAL, TWENTY-SIX SMALL MINIATURES and ELEVEN LARGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES, two full-page (some rubbing and small paint losses to a few miniatures and borders). Unrestored contemporary velvet over wooden boards (the velvet very worn, losses to spine and at joints, lacking clasps and catches).
A LAVISHLY ILLUMINATED, AND PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN, HOURS BY THE MASTERS OF CORNELIS CROESINCK AND HUGO JANSZ. VAN WOERDEN
PROVENANCE:
1. The Calendar is for the diocese of Utrecht. The choice of saints to be included in the suffrages is more personal, including the rare invocation of St Ontkommer who grew a beard to escape marriage. Dympna's cult was focussed in Geel in Brabant but she might have been invoked as the patron of the insane rather than for her locality, while Josse (Jodocus) further south at St-Josse-sur-Mer had given rise to a popular pilgrimage.
2. Christoff Freiherr zu Welsperg and Primör and his descendants: inscription on first added parchment leaf with an Italian motto and various family records added to once blank leaves at the end of the manuscript. One of the most ancient and noble Tyroleon families, this branch of the Welspergs ruled the valle di Primiero, or Primör, from 1401 to 1827. The main hand is Christoff's: on 17 November 1592 he registers his ownership and that of his beloved wife Adelberta and their children. He notes his birth, 20 October 1556 in Schloss Colpfen (Golpfen?) [another hand notes his death 6 March 1634], his marriage, 25 November 1582, his wife's birth (1561) [he adds her death 19 Jan 1611]. They have thirteen children between 1583 and 1604: their precise times of birth and starsigns are listed; the godparents show an italophile tendency, including such notables (by proxy) as Alfonso II of Ferrara (the patron of Tasso) and 'Anna Khaterina Erzherzogin zu Östereich' -- Anna Caterina Gonzaga (1566-1621), wife of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and Count of Tyrol. It was from the Habsburgs that the Welspergs held the fief of Primör.
The second ownership inscription is that of Maximilian Carl Graf zu Wolckenstein, who in 1630 married Johanna Catherina, 10th child and 3rd daughter of the above. They had two daughters, 1631 and 1634, and she died in October 1643. The last entry records his second marriage, to Maria Christina in 1648: she died the following year.
CONTENT:
Utrecht Calendar ff.2-7v; prefatory prayer to the Office of the Virgin f.8v; Office of the Virgin, use of Utrecht ff.9-37v: matins f.9, lauds f.14, prime f.19v, terce f.22v, sext f.24v, none f.27, vespers f.29v, compline f.33v; Seven Verses of St Gregory ff.37v-39v; prayer on the name of Jesus ff.40-41; preface to 15 Oes of St Bridget, detailing a vision of St Bridget when an image of Christ on the Cross spoke to her and revealed that Christ had suffered 5,470 wounds, so that saying the Our Father and the Hail Mary 15 times daily would salute each wound in the course of the year and, if said with the 15 Oes, redeem the souls of 15 friends, convert 15 sinners and keep 15 good men in the paths of righteousness and earn indulgences for the petitioner f.40v; 15 Oes of St Bridget ff.42-47; prayers to God the Father and the Son f.47v; Obsecro te in Dutch followed by record of indulgences ff.49-51; O intemerata in Dutch ff.51-52v; Stabat mater in Dutch ff.52v-53v; prayer of St Bernard to the Virgin ff.54-54v; Seven Joys of the Virgin, Gaude flore virginali in Dutch, attributed to St Thomas Becket ff.54v-55v; prayer to the Virgin f.56; Salve regina in Dutch f.56v; prayer to the guardian angel f.57; Suffrages ff.57v-73: to Sts Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist, Andrew, James, Stephen, Lawrence, Christopher, Erasmus, Sebastian, Anthony Abbot, Roch, Adrian, Nicholas, Martin, Jodocus, Anne, Mary Magdalen, Catherine, Barbara, Margaret, Appollonia, Agatha, Lucy, Ontkommer (or Wilgefortis), Clare, Gertrude, Dympna, All Saints; rubric for prayer to be said on going to the sacrament (with offset of border decoration) f.73v, followed by two stubs; final eight leaves ruled originally left blank but with added records of the zu Welsperg family.
ILLUMINATION:
The illumination is in the style of the northern Netherlandish Masters of the Dark Eyes, in particular the artists responsible for the Marciana group of manuscripts, named from a Book of Hours in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice (ms It. I, 35). Although their books are known for the exuberance and quantity of their decoration, the present Book of Hours is among the most richly illuminated, with the scatter borders evolved in Ghent-Bruges manuscripts that are a notable characteristic of the Marciana group. For these illuminators see The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting, Utrecht/New York, 1989/90, pp.285-8, 291-7.
The most distinctive illuminator in the Marciana group, the Master of Cornelis Croesinck, named from the Book of Hours of Cornelis Croesinck (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M.1078), painted most of the fully coloured miniatures in the present manuscript. The second illuminator seen at the Circumcision, Crucifixion, Virgin and Child in a Garden and the Magdalen, is one of the Masters of Hugo Jansz. van Woerden. His authorship is shown by the neatly defined figures with fuller faces and patterned textiles. The semi-grisaille miniatures are in a technique particular to these Masters, although noted in only one other book to date (The Hague, KB, Ms 133 M 124), where forms are outlined and then established through comparatively sparse brushstrokes over a pink-grey ground, which shows through as the base colour for flesh, garments and settings.
These Masters take their name from similarities between their work and woodcuts made for the printer Hugo Jansz. van Woerden, who settled in Leiden in 1490. The work of these illuminators, localisable to Leiden, does show connections through texts as well as style with the Master of Cornelis Croesinck. The borders in this Hours, however, are typical of the Croesinck Master, not of the van Woerden Masters, who were presumably therefore acting under his direction.
The composition of this manuscript, with some inserted leaves bearing text as well as miniatures, is particularly complex and must have been very carefully organised. The scribe and/or designer were presumably asked for a Book of Hours with a French rather than a Netherlandish mise-en-page, but proceeded to manufacture it in the way with which they were familiar.
The subjects of the large miniatures are as follows:
f.14 Nativity, with a border of dragons emerging from acanthus, in liquid gold and brown with white flowers, on a pink ground
f.19v Annunciation to the Shepherds, with a full border of pansies and acanthus visited by a butterfly and a snail on a pink ground
f.22v Circumcision, with a full border of flowers and strawberries, with a bird, butterfly, caterpillar and snails, on a gold-coloured ground
f.24v Adoration of the Magi, with a full border with battling wildmen emerging from white-flowered acanthus, all in liquid gold and brown, on a pink ground
f.27 Presentation in the Temple, with a full border of flowers and strawberries with a bird and a fly, on a gold coloured ground
f.29v Flight into Egypt, the miracle of the corn in the left background, in the midground an idol topples from its pillar, with a full border of roses and other flowers and fruit and acanthus in liquid gold and brown on a dark green ground
f.33v Massacre of the Innocents, with a full border of two birds and a butterfly among flowers strewn on a gold coloured ground
f.37v Mass of St Gregory, with a full border of pansies, violets, a white carnation and acanthus in liquid gold and brown, with a butterfly, on a pink ground
f.41v Crucifixion, full page miniature with a divided full border with the pelican in its piety and acanthus in brown and liquid gold on dark pink grounds and flowers with birds and butterflies on gold coloured grounds; with full border on facing recto divided diagonally into bands of acanthus in liquid gold and brown alternately with white flowers on pink grounds and with violet flowers on blue grounds
f.48v Virgin and Child in a Garden with Angels, full page miniature with a divided full border pea flowers and pods on liquid gold grounds and acanthus with fantastic birds and beasts in liquid gold and brown on grounds of blue or pink-brown; with full border on facing recto with roses, flowers grey acanthus, a fly and a winged beast on a gold coloured ground
f.66v St Anne enthroned with the Virgin seated at her feet with the Christ Child, with a full border where a frog confronts a bird among roses, flowers, strawberries and acanthus in liquid gold and brown on a ground of very dark green
The subjects of the small miniatures are as follows:
f.39 The Christ Child blessing, in semi-grisaille, his garment open to reveal his genitals which have been partially erased, with a filigree border of burnished gold
f.51 the Virgin, alone, at half-length, in semi-grisaille, with a filigree border of burnished gold linking rosettes in dark pink and liquid gold
f.52v Christ on the Cross between the Virgin as the Mater dolorosa, with a sword piercing her breast, and St John, with a border of daisies, strawberries and grey acanthus on a gold-coloured ground
f.54v Coronation of the Virgin in semi-grisaille, with a border of liquid gold and brown acanthus on a dusky blue ground
f.56v The Virgin at half-length with the Child in a landscape in semi-grisaille, with a divided border of strawberries on grounds of liquid gold and acanthus in liquid gold and brown on black or dark pink grounds
f.57v St Michael, with a border of acanthus in grey and white or brown and liquid gold on a pink ground
f.58v Sts Peter and Paul, with a divided border of daisies with liquid gold on pink grounds, branches with acanthus in brown and liquid gold on blue or dark green grounds
f.59 St John the Evangelist, with divided border with roses on liquid gold grounds, and similar acanthus branches on grounds of pink or blue
f.60 St James, with a border of strawberry fruit and flowers, acanthus with liquid gold and a small grotesque beast on a dark green ground
f.60v Martyrdom of St Stephen, with border with scallop edged divisions of red carnations on gold coloured grounds, and acanthus in brown and lquid gold on grounds of dark green or pink
f.61 St Lawrence and St Christopher, with a divided border with a squirrel and flowers on gold coloured grounds, branches and acanthus in liquid gold and brown on grounds of pink or dark green
f.62v St Sebastian with a border of flowers and acanthus in orange and brown with liquid gold on divided grounds of pink, blue and liquid gold, with a scalloped compartment below with St Anthony Abbot in a landscape
f.63v St Adrian with a filigree border of burnished gold linking rosettes in liquid gold and dark pink
f.64v St Nicholas with the three boys in the brine tub, with a similar border
f.65 St Martin as bishop giving alms to a beggar and St Jodocus as a pilgrim, with a similar border
f.67v St Mary Magdalen with a border with acanthus, white flowers and a lion on divided grounds of turquoise, pink and grey
f.69 St Margaret and St Appollonia, with a filigree border of burnished gold linking rosettes in liquid gold and dark pink
f.70 St Agatha, with a border where a monkey rides a boar among strewn flowers on a liquid gold ground
f.70v St Lucy with a sword through her neck and St Ontkommer (Wilgefortis) being crucified, extending into lower border of monsters and strewn flowers on a gold ground
f.71v St Clare and St Gertrude, with a filigree border of burnished gold linking rosettes in liquid gold and dark pink
f.72 St Dympna holding a lighted candle, with a similar border
The subjects of miniatures within borders are as follows:
f.58 St John the Baptist, seated with the Lamb of God on a green hummock in a border of carnations and strawberries on a liquid gold ground
f.59v Crucifixion of St Andrew, corner compartment of a border of birds perched in acanthus, all in liquid gold and brown on a pink ground
f.61v Martyrdom of St Erasmus in a landscape, lower compartment within a divided border of flowers on a liquid gold ground and acanthus in brown and liquid gold on pink, blue or olive green
f.62v St Anthony Abbot with his pig, see above
f.63 St Roch with the dog bringing bread and an angel curing his sore, a scalloped roundel in a border of acanthus in liquid gold and brown on a pink ground
f.68 St Catherine with St Barbara seated in a landscape, before the wheel and tower respectively, framed by acanthus to the right in brown and liquid gold which, as at the upper left, is nibbled by a grey monster, on pink grounds, to the side similar acanthus on a turquoise green ground and a strawberry and flower on liquid gold ground
The subject of the historiated initial is as follows: f.9 Visitation, with a full border of strewn flowers visited by butterflies and a fly, a small dragon in the corner
[Diocese of Utrecht, 1490s]
191 x 140mm. ii + 81 + vi leaves: 18, 29(vi singleton with miniature, probably lacking an initial singleton with miniature), 311(ii, v and vii singletons with miniatures), 49(i, v and ix singletons with miniatures), 510(iv singleton with miniature, x singleton), 69(i singleton with miniature), 78, 89(ii singleton with miniature), stubs of two missing leaves, the first with border (offset on f.73v) and presumably miniature, 98, 24 lines written in brown ink in a bastard bookhand between two verticals and 25 horizontals ruled in pink, justification: 118 x 78mm, rubrics in red, text capitals touched red, one- and two-line initials in liquid gold on grounds alternately of blue and dark pink, four-line initials with acanthus staves, one with a wildman, in brown and liquid gold on dark pink or green grounds or with staves of burnished gold on 'textile' grounds in dark pink and liquid gold, THIRTY-TWO SCATTER BORDERS strewn with flowers, fruit, acanthus, beasts, birds, insects and wildmen on coloured grounds, some framed in burnished gold, SIX WITH MINIATURES, eleven filigree borders in burnished gold, most borders associated with the ONE HISTORIATED INITIAL, TWENTY-SIX SMALL MINIATURES and ELEVEN LARGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES, two full-page (some rubbing and small paint losses to a few miniatures and borders). Unrestored contemporary velvet over wooden boards (the velvet very worn, losses to spine and at joints, lacking clasps and catches).
A LAVISHLY ILLUMINATED, AND PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN, HOURS BY THE MASTERS OF CORNELIS CROESINCK AND HUGO JANSZ. VAN WOERDEN
PROVENANCE:
1. The Calendar is for the diocese of Utrecht. The choice of saints to be included in the suffrages is more personal, including the rare invocation of St Ontkommer who grew a beard to escape marriage. Dympna's cult was focussed in Geel in Brabant but she might have been invoked as the patron of the insane rather than for her locality, while Josse (Jodocus) further south at St-Josse-sur-Mer had given rise to a popular pilgrimage.
2. Christoff Freiherr zu Welsperg and Primör and his descendants: inscription on first added parchment leaf with an Italian motto and various family records added to once blank leaves at the end of the manuscript. One of the most ancient and noble Tyroleon families, this branch of the Welspergs ruled the valle di Primiero, or Primör, from 1401 to 1827. The main hand is Christoff's: on 17 November 1592 he registers his ownership and that of his beloved wife Adelberta and their children. He notes his birth, 20 October 1556 in Schloss Colpfen (Golpfen?) [another hand notes his death 6 March 1634], his marriage, 25 November 1582, his wife's birth (1561) [he adds her death 19 Jan 1611]. They have thirteen children between 1583 and 1604: their precise times of birth and starsigns are listed; the godparents show an italophile tendency, including such notables (by proxy) as Alfonso II of Ferrara (the patron of Tasso) and 'Anna Khaterina Erzherzogin zu Östereich' -- Anna Caterina Gonzaga (1566-1621), wife of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and Count of Tyrol. It was from the Habsburgs that the Welspergs held the fief of Primör.
The second ownership inscription is that of Maximilian Carl Graf zu Wolckenstein, who in 1630 married Johanna Catherina, 10th child and 3rd daughter of the above. They had two daughters, 1631 and 1634, and she died in October 1643. The last entry records his second marriage, to Maria Christina in 1648: she died the following year.
CONTENT:
Utrecht Calendar ff.2-7v; prefatory prayer to the Office of the Virgin f.8v; Office of the Virgin, use of Utrecht ff.9-37v: matins f.9, lauds f.14, prime f.19v, terce f.22v, sext f.24v, none f.27, vespers f.29v, compline f.33v; Seven Verses of St Gregory ff.37v-39v; prayer on the name of Jesus ff.40-41; preface to 15 Oes of St Bridget, detailing a vision of St Bridget when an image of Christ on the Cross spoke to her and revealed that Christ had suffered 5,470 wounds, so that saying the Our Father and the Hail Mary 15 times daily would salute each wound in the course of the year and, if said with the 15 Oes, redeem the souls of 15 friends, convert 15 sinners and keep 15 good men in the paths of righteousness and earn indulgences for the petitioner f.40v; 15 Oes of St Bridget ff.42-47; prayers to God the Father and the Son f.47v; Obsecro te in Dutch followed by record of indulgences ff.49-51; O intemerata in Dutch ff.51-52v; Stabat mater in Dutch ff.52v-53v; prayer of St Bernard to the Virgin ff.54-54v; Seven Joys of the Virgin, Gaude flore virginali in Dutch, attributed to St Thomas Becket ff.54v-55v; prayer to the Virgin f.56; Salve regina in Dutch f.56v; prayer to the guardian angel f.57; Suffrages ff.57v-73: to Sts Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist, Andrew, James, Stephen, Lawrence, Christopher, Erasmus, Sebastian, Anthony Abbot, Roch, Adrian, Nicholas, Martin, Jodocus, Anne, Mary Magdalen, Catherine, Barbara, Margaret, Appollonia, Agatha, Lucy, Ontkommer (or Wilgefortis), Clare, Gertrude, Dympna, All Saints; rubric for prayer to be said on going to the sacrament (with offset of border decoration) f.73v, followed by two stubs; final eight leaves ruled originally left blank but with added records of the zu Welsperg family.
ILLUMINATION:
The illumination is in the style of the northern Netherlandish Masters of the Dark Eyes, in particular the artists responsible for the Marciana group of manuscripts, named from a Book of Hours in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice (ms It. I, 35). Although their books are known for the exuberance and quantity of their decoration, the present Book of Hours is among the most richly illuminated, with the scatter borders evolved in Ghent-Bruges manuscripts that are a notable characteristic of the Marciana group. For these illuminators see The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting, Utrecht/New York, 1989/90, pp.285-8, 291-7.
The most distinctive illuminator in the Marciana group, the Master of Cornelis Croesinck, named from the Book of Hours of Cornelis Croesinck (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M.1078), painted most of the fully coloured miniatures in the present manuscript. The second illuminator seen at the Circumcision, Crucifixion, Virgin and Child in a Garden and the Magdalen, is one of the Masters of Hugo Jansz. van Woerden. His authorship is shown by the neatly defined figures with fuller faces and patterned textiles. The semi-grisaille miniatures are in a technique particular to these Masters, although noted in only one other book to date (The Hague, KB, Ms 133 M 124), where forms are outlined and then established through comparatively sparse brushstrokes over a pink-grey ground, which shows through as the base colour for flesh, garments and settings.
These Masters take their name from similarities between their work and woodcuts made for the printer Hugo Jansz. van Woerden, who settled in Leiden in 1490. The work of these illuminators, localisable to Leiden, does show connections through texts as well as style with the Master of Cornelis Croesinck. The borders in this Hours, however, are typical of the Croesinck Master, not of the van Woerden Masters, who were presumably therefore acting under his direction.
The composition of this manuscript, with some inserted leaves bearing text as well as miniatures, is particularly complex and must have been very carefully organised. The scribe and/or designer were presumably asked for a Book of Hours with a French rather than a Netherlandish mise-en-page, but proceeded to manufacture it in the way with which they were familiar.
The subjects of the large miniatures are as follows:
f.14 Nativity, with a border of dragons emerging from acanthus, in liquid gold and brown with white flowers, on a pink ground
f.19v Annunciation to the Shepherds, with a full border of pansies and acanthus visited by a butterfly and a snail on a pink ground
f.22v Circumcision, with a full border of flowers and strawberries, with a bird, butterfly, caterpillar and snails, on a gold-coloured ground
f.24v Adoration of the Magi, with a full border with battling wildmen emerging from white-flowered acanthus, all in liquid gold and brown, on a pink ground
f.27 Presentation in the Temple, with a full border of flowers and strawberries with a bird and a fly, on a gold coloured ground
f.29v Flight into Egypt, the miracle of the corn in the left background, in the midground an idol topples from its pillar, with a full border of roses and other flowers and fruit and acanthus in liquid gold and brown on a dark green ground
f.33v Massacre of the Innocents, with a full border of two birds and a butterfly among flowers strewn on a gold coloured ground
f.37v Mass of St Gregory, with a full border of pansies, violets, a white carnation and acanthus in liquid gold and brown, with a butterfly, on a pink ground
f.41v Crucifixion, full page miniature with a divided full border with the pelican in its piety and acanthus in brown and liquid gold on dark pink grounds and flowers with birds and butterflies on gold coloured grounds; with full border on facing recto divided diagonally into bands of acanthus in liquid gold and brown alternately with white flowers on pink grounds and with violet flowers on blue grounds
f.48v Virgin and Child in a Garden with Angels, full page miniature with a divided full border pea flowers and pods on liquid gold grounds and acanthus with fantastic birds and beasts in liquid gold and brown on grounds of blue or pink-brown; with full border on facing recto with roses, flowers grey acanthus, a fly and a winged beast on a gold coloured ground
f.66v St Anne enthroned with the Virgin seated at her feet with the Christ Child, with a full border where a frog confronts a bird among roses, flowers, strawberries and acanthus in liquid gold and brown on a ground of very dark green
The subjects of the small miniatures are as follows:
f.39 The Christ Child blessing, in semi-grisaille, his garment open to reveal his genitals which have been partially erased, with a filigree border of burnished gold
f.51 the Virgin, alone, at half-length, in semi-grisaille, with a filigree border of burnished gold linking rosettes in dark pink and liquid gold
f.52v Christ on the Cross between the Virgin as the Mater dolorosa, with a sword piercing her breast, and St John, with a border of daisies, strawberries and grey acanthus on a gold-coloured ground
f.54v Coronation of the Virgin in semi-grisaille, with a border of liquid gold and brown acanthus on a dusky blue ground
f.56v The Virgin at half-length with the Child in a landscape in semi-grisaille, with a divided border of strawberries on grounds of liquid gold and acanthus in liquid gold and brown on black or dark pink grounds
f.57v St Michael, with a border of acanthus in grey and white or brown and liquid gold on a pink ground
f.58v Sts Peter and Paul, with a divided border of daisies with liquid gold on pink grounds, branches with acanthus in brown and liquid gold on blue or dark green grounds
f.59 St John the Evangelist, with divided border with roses on liquid gold grounds, and similar acanthus branches on grounds of pink or blue
f.60 St James, with a border of strawberry fruit and flowers, acanthus with liquid gold and a small grotesque beast on a dark green ground
f.60v Martyrdom of St Stephen, with border with scallop edged divisions of red carnations on gold coloured grounds, and acanthus in brown and lquid gold on grounds of dark green or pink
f.61 St Lawrence and St Christopher, with a divided border with a squirrel and flowers on gold coloured grounds, branches and acanthus in liquid gold and brown on grounds of pink or dark green
f.62v St Sebastian with a border of flowers and acanthus in orange and brown with liquid gold on divided grounds of pink, blue and liquid gold, with a scalloped compartment below with St Anthony Abbot in a landscape
f.63v St Adrian with a filigree border of burnished gold linking rosettes in liquid gold and dark pink
f.64v St Nicholas with the three boys in the brine tub, with a similar border
f.65 St Martin as bishop giving alms to a beggar and St Jodocus as a pilgrim, with a similar border
f.67v St Mary Magdalen with a border with acanthus, white flowers and a lion on divided grounds of turquoise, pink and grey
f.69 St Margaret and St Appollonia, with a filigree border of burnished gold linking rosettes in liquid gold and dark pink
f.70 St Agatha, with a border where a monkey rides a boar among strewn flowers on a liquid gold ground
f.70v St Lucy with a sword through her neck and St Ontkommer (Wilgefortis) being crucified, extending into lower border of monsters and strewn flowers on a gold ground
f.71v St Clare and St Gertrude, with a filigree border of burnished gold linking rosettes in liquid gold and dark pink
f.72 St Dympna holding a lighted candle, with a similar border
The subjects of miniatures within borders are as follows:
f.58 St John the Baptist, seated with the Lamb of God on a green hummock in a border of carnations and strawberries on a liquid gold ground
f.59v Crucifixion of St Andrew, corner compartment of a border of birds perched in acanthus, all in liquid gold and brown on a pink ground
f.61v Martyrdom of St Erasmus in a landscape, lower compartment within a divided border of flowers on a liquid gold ground and acanthus in brown and liquid gold on pink, blue or olive green
f.62v St Anthony Abbot with his pig, see above
f.63 St Roch with the dog bringing bread and an angel curing his sore, a scalloped roundel in a border of acanthus in liquid gold and brown on a pink ground
f.68 St Catherine with St Barbara seated in a landscape, before the wheel and tower respectively, framed by acanthus to the right in brown and liquid gold which, as at the upper left, is nibbled by a grey monster, on pink grounds, to the side similar acanthus on a turquoise green ground and a strawberry and flower on liquid gold ground
The subject of the historiated initial is as follows: f.9 Visitation, with a full border of strewn flowers visited by butterflies and a fly, a small dragon in the corner
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