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| Keywords: Dirc van Delft - Duke Albrecht's Table of Christian Faith (Winter Part) - Walters W171 - Bottom Exterior.jpg 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 between 1400 1404 Medieval ink and pigments on parchment bound between pasteboard covered with modern red velvet Closed cm 19 4 14 5 5 2 ; Storage Box cm 21 16 6 4 ; Open cm 19 37 25 4 12 07 accession number W 171 3327 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 city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1931 The International Style The Arts in Europe Around 1400 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1962 Medieval Art 1060-1550 University Art Gallery South Bend 1974 Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces in Miniature The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984-1985 Heavenly Bodies The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1988 Decadent Decades The Medieval Clothes Horse The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1989 The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting The Morgan Library Museum New York; Rijkmuseum Het Catharijneconvent Utrecht 1989-1990 Plants and Flowers in Medieval Manuscripts The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1991 The Book within the Book Images of Books and Readers in Manuscripts The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995 The Origins of Dutch Painting Manuscripts from the Fifteenth Century The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 The Art of Law Legal Documents from the Collection of The Walters The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2006 Mirror of a Medieval World The Hours of Catherine of Cleves Museum Het Valkhof Nijmegen Nijmegen 2009-2010 place of origin Utrecht Netherlands Walters Art Museum license 2D Walters MS W171 - Duke Albrecht's Table of Christian Faith Winter Part Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update | ||||
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