Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts D: 5

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS585

Shelfmark:

Ricketts D: 5

Place:

Netherlands

Netherlands TGN

Date:

s. XVI(in); 1500-1515

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Figurative details, One leaf: King David in profile kneeling in prayer on a crenellated terrace outside a gothic tower, a view of a street scene beyond including a woman carrying two jugs (probably in allusion to Bathsheba’s bathing, II Samuel 11: 2) and a man riding away on a white horse (probably Uriah the Hittite returning to Joab carrying the letter which ensures that Uriah will be killed...
Layout, One leaf: Full-page composition on the verso within a border 115 mm. by 79 mm., a central miniature in a gently arched compartment 80 mm. by 45 mm.

Former Owner(s):

C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: There is a second leaf from the same manuscript Book of Hours in the Lilly Library, Ricketts D: 6.
One leaf: The stems are painted in trompe l’oeil as if three dimensional and floating just above the coloured grounds, on which they are casting shadows, characteristic of the so-called ‘Ghent-Bruges’ style of the end of the fifteenth and especially early sixteenth century. The painter has plucked stock patterns from repertoires familiar to the Master of the Older Prayerbook of Maximilian I...
One leaf: Latin.
One leaf: Image intended for binidng into a book of Hours opposite the opening if the Penitential Psalms.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/RickettsD5_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_RickettsD5_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington