Dirc van Delf

[1] On 17 December 1391, he was hired as a chaplain at the court of Albert I, Duke of Bavaria and Count of Holland, in The Hague.

The second, the Tafel van den Kersten Ghelove (Handbook of the Christian Faith), was begun around 1403 for Albert.

[2] Dirc's main sources were Latin, the most important being Hugh Ripelin's 13th-century Compendium theologicae veritatis.

The second concerns the passion of Jesus, the hierarchy of angels, the works of mercy, the sacraments, the Antichrist, the four last things and Heaven.

These include chapters on pagan virtues; on saint's lives taken from the Vitae Patrum (in Dutch, Vaderboec); on the election and coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor; on chess; on the Queen of Sheba.

Dedication copy of Dirc's Tafel depicting Duke Albert in the lower left. In the historiated initial is the Trinity.