summary
Book of hours, use of Sarum ("of Catherine of Aragon")
note (text)
Heures de Catherine d'Aragon
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
230
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
164
justification : height (mm)
121
justification : width (mm)
75
note (deco)
(full page) miniatures, historiated initials, decorated initials, border decoration
binding
16th c. ? (green morocco, clasps)
origDate : proposed date
c.1460
note (history)
The date of the manuscript is indirectly based on the calendar. The English saints point to the House of York and especially to Margaret of York's marriage to Charles the Bold in 1468. Localisation based on decoration and miniatures
provenance
According to a note on the flyleaf, the manuscript was owned by the Irish Benedictine Dames from Ipres in 1823. In 1835, King William I of the Netherlands (1772-1843) offered the manuscript to the KB as a gift
bibl
Winkler 1925, p. 71, 172Leroquais 1929, p. 158-159Bijvanck 1931{1}, p. 43Brandhorst & Broekhuijsen-Kruijer 1985, p. 109-110 n° 413Dogaer 1987, p. 1031959, Bruxelles, p. 105 n° 101Cat. Mss., I, p. 49Bijvanck 1924, p. 78 n° 29Byvanck 1926, p. 189 note (temp)
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