Resumen de The Institution of the Rosary. Establishing the context for a recently discovered copy after a lost panel by Geertgen tot Sint Jans in the Pommersfelden Book of Hours, Ms. 343
A book of hours illuminated around 1500 by one of the so-called Masters of the Dark Eyes (a group of miniaturists who dominated book production in the County of Holland at the time) contains a copy of The Institution of the Rosary, a lost work by Geertgen tot Sint Jans. The subjects of the various parts of the miniature and the way in which they are presented display such close similarities to a copy of the Geertgen's The Institution of the Rosarythat they must also be a copy after Geertgen's composition. Certain questions remain relating to this miniature, such as how the miniaturist knew Geertgen's composition and whether details such as St. Dominic scourging himself, the devil hurling rocks, and a dog with a burning torch were derived from Geertgen's original panel or must be seen as the miniaturist's inventions, but it is obvious that the person who commissioned the book of hours was a great devotee of the rosary and wished to associate a miniature with the prayer.
