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Alternative Title
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Book of Hours for the Use of Utrecht
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Creator
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Master of Cornelis Croesinck
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Subject
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Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions.
Manuscripts, Dutch
Books of hours--Netherlands.
1489-1499.
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Language
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Dutch
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Date
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c. 1494
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Description
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The Virgin Mary is seen with hands crossed on her breasts in the arms of Evangelist John at the crucifixion of her son. Christ is depicted during the crucifixion with a crown of thrones, bleeding, affixed with three nails to a cross with titulus inscribed INRI. While Mary Magdalen is depicted embracing the base of the cross. There are several other people depicted around the cross, including: two holy women and soldiers casting lots with dice. Scene in landscape with distant city of Jerusalem, hills, and trees. Margins with scattered flowers, including roses and violas, inhabited by three birds, butterfly, and fly.
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Medium
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Paint on vellum.
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Extent
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Unknown.
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Rights Holder
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The Morgan Museum and Library, New York, New York
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Provenance
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1494, made for Cornelis Croesinck (d. 1519) and his second wife Hildegard van Alkemade, pictured on fol. 121v, their initials C and H, joined by love-knots, on the clasps of the binding; their arms, with unidentified initials GAL on 109v: on the left: quartered, 1 and 4, azure, three tumblers argent, 1 and 3, gules, a lion rampant or, armed and langued azure (Croesinck); mantling, azure and argent; crest: on a torse, gules and or, a figure, or, holding up a goblet between two wings, argent; on the right: supported by a griffon, the arms argent, sable, armed and crowned, or (Alkemade) impaled by Croesinck; on fol. 1r: oval stamp with BIBLIOTH. DU COLLEGE N.D. A ANVERS; (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe College, Antwerp); William Bragge of Sheffield; his sale, London, Sotheby's, June 7, 1876, lot 227; T. Shadford Walker, Liverpool; his sale, London, Sotheby's, June 23, 1886, lot 198; Robert Hoe; by descent to his granddaughter, Ellen James Evans (Mrs. Robert J. Lewis) and Robert Lewis.
