Ten single leaves, with single column of 17 lines in a rounded late gothic bookhand with numerous ornamental penstrokes, terracotta-red rubrics, one- and 2-line initials in brown heightened with liquid gold penstrokes on burgundy, blue or pale green grounds, almost all with finely painted realistic flower cuttings in their borders, one leaf with offset showing it once faced a full-page arched topped miniature with six roundels in its lower and outer border, some small spots and stains, overall excellent condition, each leaf 126 by 87mm
Cornelia van Wulfschkercke (d. 1540) entered the Carmelite convent of Sion, Bruges, by 1495, took her vows in 1501, and blazed a career as a female illuminator producing numerous books for patrons outside of the convent (see A.M.W. As-Vijvers, 'Manuscript Production in a Carmelite Convent: the Case of Cornelia van Wulfschkercke', in Books of Hours Reconsidered, 2013, pp. 279-96 and 519-20). She was trained as an artist by Grietkin Scheppers in 1503, who herself may have been the widow of an illuminator, and they appear to have worked together on a Gradual (now Paris, Bibliotheque Mazarine, ms. 432), where she is named in the colophon. Some twenty-three manuscripts can now be identified as the product of Cornelia van Wulfschkercke and her workshop in the Sion convent
