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Source Description
Walters manuscript W.171 is a document of the first importance in the history of Dutch manuscript illumination, and it 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, and one for summer. This manuscript is of the winter part, and it is incomplete, omitting the prologue and chapters 13,14, and 35-72. The arms of the Bavarian Counts of Holland and the kneeling owner on fol. 1 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 consists of 165 folios and contains 35 historiated initials.
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Document identity
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3327
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Duke Albrecht's Table of Christian Faith (Winter Part)
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title
Duke Albrecht's Table of Christian Faith (Winter Part)
description
Walters manuscript W.171 is a document of the first importance in the history of Dutch manuscript illumination, and it 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, and one for summer. This manuscript is of the winter part, and it is incomplete, omitting the prologue and chapters 13,14, and 35-72. The arms of the Bavarian Counts of Holland and the kneeling owner on fol. 1 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 consists of 165 folios and contains 35 historiated initials.
provenance
Albert, Duke of Bavaria and Count of Holland (1389-1404), Utrecht, ca. 1404-1405, by commission; Gruel and Engelman, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 93]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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1400-1404 (Medieval)
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cm
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19.4
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14.5
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5.2
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Closed H: 7 5/8 x W: 5 11/16 x D: 2 1/16 in. (19.4 x 14.5 x 5.2 cm); Storage Box H: 8 1/4 x W: 6 5/16 x D: 2 1/2 in. (21 x 16 x 6.4 cm); Open H: 7 5/8 x W: 10 x D: 4 3/4 in. (19.37 x 25.4 x 12.07 cm)
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reign
Albrecht of Bavaria, Count of Holland
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