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Title

Book of hours

Authors

• Catholic Church

Other related names

• Groote, Gerard, 1340-1384, translator
• Feiss, Paul Louis, b. 1875, former owner
• Laurie, James, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 738
(3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875773503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155905518
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487577

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Dutch

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Netherlands

Summary

Flemish hours of the Virgin Mary, with calendar of Utrecht, translation of Geert Groote.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Incipit: Hier begint onser wrouwen ghetide (f. 13r).
   
• Notes in a later hand (to 1684) on final 2 leaves comprise a family history of the Brantzum family of Friesland. A transcription of this chronicle of the Brantzum family and corrections to the description of the ms. by Philip E. Webber have been made by Lydia Wierda and shelved with the manuscript.
   

Extent

158 leaves : 158 x 107 (95 x 61) mm. bound to 164 x 106 mm

Foliation

Parchment, iii (paper) + 158 + i (parchment); [1-159]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary blind stamped goatskin over wooden boards, lower cover detached, upper cover nearly detached.

Layout

Written in 20 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrics in red, alternating red and blue capitals, illuminated historiated initials with illuminated borders of Madonna and Child (f. 13r), Gregorian Man of Sorrows (f. 47r), Christ in the attitude of Benediction (f. 75r), Pentecost (f. 95r), The Last Judgment (f. 111r), and Hell's Mouth (f. 127r); one initial appears to be unfinished (f. 69r). Water damage to a number of illuminations and borders.

Script

Written in a Gothic book hand with notes in a later hand on the last folio and the back endleaf.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by James Laurie; Paul-Louis Feiss (bookplates, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, 15 Dec. 1953 (catalog 1487), lot 390.
   
• Acquired through Lathrop C. Harper, 1956.
   

Subjects topical

• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish--Specimens

Genres

• Books of hours
• Devotional calendars
• Codices
• Illuminations
• Manuscripts, Dutch--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Book of Hours
• Devotion
• Illumination
• Christian
• Netherlands
• Dutch

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 13r — Historiated initial, Initial H, Madonna and Child, f. 13r
• fol. 13r — Inhabited border, Angels, f. 13r
• fol. 20r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 20r
• fol. 20r — Illuminated border, f. 20r
• fol. 27r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 27r
• fol. 27r — Illuminated border, f. 27r
• fol. 30r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 30r
• fol. 30r — Illuminated border, f. 30r
• fol. 32r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 32r
• fol. 32r — Illuminated border, f. 32r
• fol. 35r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 35r
• fol. 35r — Illuminated border, f. 35r
• fol. 38r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 38r
• fol. 38r — Illuminated border, f. 38r
• fol. 42r — Illuminated initial, Initial B, f. 42r
• fol. 42r — Illuminated border, f. 42r
• fol. 42r — Illuminated border, f. 42r
• fol. 47r — Historiated initial, Initial H, Gregorian Man of Sorrows, f. 47r
• fol. 47r — Inhabited border, Grotesque, f. 47r
• fol. 53r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 53r
• fol. 53r — Illuminated border, f. 53r
• fol. 53r — Marginal note, f. 53r
• fol. 56r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 56r
• fol. 56r — Illuminated border, f. 56r
• fol. 58r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 58r
• fol. 58r — Illuminated border, f. 58r
• fol. 60r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 60r
• fol. 60r — Illuminated border, f. 60r
• fol. 61v — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 61v
• fol. 61v — Illuminated border, f. 61v
• fol. 63v — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 63v
• fol. 63v — Illuminated border, f. 63v
• fol. 66r — Illuminated initial, Initial B, f. 66r
• fol. 66r — Illuminated border, f. 66r
• fol. 69r — Illuminated initial, Initial H, f. 69r
• fol. 69r — Illuminated border, f. 69r
• fol. 70r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 70r
• fol. 70r — Illuminated border, f. 70r
• fol. 71r — Illuminated initial G, f. 71r
• fol. 71r — Illuminated border, f. 71r
• fol. 71v — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 71v
• fol. 72v — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 72v
• fol. 72v — Illuminated border, f. 72v
• fol. 73r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 73r
• fol. 73r — Illuminated border, f. 73r
• fol. 74r — Illuminated initial, Initial B, f. 74r
• fol. 74r — Illuminated border, f. 74r
• fol. 75r — Historiated initial, Christ in the attitude of Benediction, Initial M, f. 75r
• fol. 75r — Inhabited border, Grotesque, f. 75r
• fol. 76r — Illuminated initial, Initial H, f. 76r
• fol. 76r — Illuminated border, f. 76r
• fol. 82r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 82r
• fol. 82r — Illuminated border, f. 82r
• fol. 84v — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 84v
• fol. 84v — Illuminated border, f. 84v
• fol. 85v — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 85v
• fol. 85v — Illuminated border, f. 85v
• fol. 87r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 87r
• fol. 87r — Illuminated border, f. 87r
• fol. 88v — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 88v
• fol. 88v — Illuminated border, f. 88v
• fol. 90r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 90r
• fol. 90r — Illuminated border, f. 90r
• fol. 92r — Illuminated initial, Initial B, f. 92r
• fol. 92r — Illuminated border, f. 92r
• fol. 95r — Historiated initial, Pentecost, Initial H, f. 95r
• fol. 95r — Inhabited border, Grotesque, f. 95r
• fol. 98r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 98r
• fol. 98r — Illuminated border, f. 98r
• fol. 100r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 00r
• fol. 100r — Illuminated border, f. 100r
• fol. 101v — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 101v
• fol. 101v — Illuminated border, f. 101v
• fol. 103v — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 103v
• fol. 103v — Illuminated border, f. 103v
• fol. 105v — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 105v
• fol. 105v — Illuminated border, f. 105v
• fol. 108r — Illuminated initial, Initial B, f. 108r
• fol. 108r — Illuminated border, f. 108r
• fol. 111r — Historiated initial, The Last Judgment, Initial H, f. 111r
• fol. 111r — Inhabited border, Angels and The Dead Rising, f. 111r
• fol. 127r — Historiated initial, Mouth of Hell, Initial M, f. 127r
• fol. 127r — Inhabited border, Grotesque, f. 127r
• fol. 158v — Owner note, f. 158v