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Master of Zweder van Culemborg

Book of Hours

c. 1420 (20th century binding)
Manuscript with 259 folios, six miniatures and other decorations in tempera and gold leaf, with Dutch inscriptions in littera textualis, in blackish brown ink, ruled in graphite, on parchment, in a modern binding of brown morocco over wooden boards, with stamped designs on the endbands, and with machine cut edges, marbled in red and blue
13 × 10 cm (5.1 × 3.9 in)

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