Book/Printed Material Duke Albrecht's Table of Christian Faith (Winter Part). Tafel van den Kersten ghelove
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Title
- Duke Albrecht's Table of Christian Faith (Winter Part).
Other Title
- Tafel van den Kersten ghelove
Summary
- This 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 (Table of Christian faith) is a compendium of Christian knowledge written by a learned Dominican, Dirc van Delf. The text is in two parts, one for winter, another for summer. This manuscript is of the winter part and is incomplete, omitting the prologue and chapters 13, 14, and 35-57; chapters 23-24 are in inverse order. The arms of the Bavarian counts of Holland and the kneeling owner on folio 1 recto 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 35 historiated initials.
Names
- Dirc, van Delf, active 1365-1404 Author.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1400 to 1404]
Headings
- - Netherlands--Utrecht
- - 1400 to 1404
- - Illuminations
- - Miniatures (Illuminations)
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Walters Ms. W.171"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 165 folios : parchment ; 13.7 x 18.8 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: Walters Art Museum.
- - Content in Dutch.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Illuminated Manuscripts from Europe
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021667941
Online Format
- compressed data
- image