Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht

Other related names

• Groote, Geert, 1340-1384, translator (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86074245.html)
• Eerens, Lambertus, former owner
• Eerens, Conradus, former owner
• Crane, Warren C., former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 91
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1560762
• deRicci: 61

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Origin

Place

Netherlands

Summary

This manuscript is a late fifteenth-century Dutch book of hours for the Use of Utrecht with a calendar for the Use of Maastricht. Occasional corrections or additions are written in the lower margin with points of insertion marked in the text, possibly by the scribe. Two miniatures, a Pieta and a penitent David, are by a much later artist.

Notes

• First seven front flyleaves are modern paper, the eighth is parchment; first back flyleaf is parchment, last seven are modern paper
   

Extent

Viii+164+viii; 142 x 100 mm bound to 150 x 115 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; added half folio between fols. 153 and 154, marked 153a

Collation

Structure uncertain

Signatures

Possible trimmed signature b, fols. 25r-26r, lower right recto

Support

Parchment

Binding

Dark red morocco, gold-tooled in panel design, gold-tooled inner edges, marbled endleaves; HORAE / DUTCH MS. / XV. CENTURY stamped on gold-tooled spine with false raised bands; bound by H. Zucker of Philadelphia after 1912; in original wooden boards at Anderson sale in 1912

Layout

One column of nineteen lines; frame-ruled in black ink; written area: 96 x 63 mm

Decoration

Two miniatures (Mater dolorosa, fol. 14v; David in penance, fol. 60v) added by post-medieval hand; large five-line flourished initials in red, blue, and purple ink at major text divisions; one- and two-line initials in alternating red and blue throughout

Script

Hybrida (Netherlandish)

One scribe responsible for main text, another responsible for fols. 13r-13v, last collect on fol. 115r, fols. 132v-133v, and fol. 153a

Provenance

• Lambertus and Conradus Eerens (sixteenth century); W.C. Crane; his sale New York, Anderson Auction Co., December 9, 1912, no. 386; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Names of Lambertus Eerens and Conradus Eerens appears in sixteenth-century cursive hand on recto of original front flyleaf; name of Conradus Eerens appears twice again in lower margin of fol. 19r with date "1511" written in red ink; Same hand wrote list of saints on reverse of parchment flyleaf; Description of manuscript signed "Anderson Auction Co." and dated 10/12/1912, written in modern hand on original back flyleaf
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2035, no. 61.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 99, no. 91.
• Webber, Philip E., "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries," Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in België 47 (1976): pp. 482-484 (article pp. 459-513).

Genres

• Books of hours

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Netherlands
• Christian
• Miniature
• Private devotional text
• Devotion
• Liturgy
• Illustration

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 8 verso — List of saints in sixteenth-century cursive hand, identical to beginning of list on fol. 70v in the Litany
• fol. 1r — Calendar, Maastricht use
• fol. 13r — Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermon beginning "O broeders. Ghetruwelick sal ic versuchtende ende eyschende ontfanghen ..."
• fol. 15r — Hours of the Virgin, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 61r — Seven Penitential Psalms, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 69r — Litany
• fol. 80r — Office of the Dead, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 116r — Hours of Eternal Wisdom, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 134r — Hours of the Holy Spirit, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 142r — Hours of the Holy Cross, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 154v — Prayer, "Ich sal mijn begeerten geuen den here voer alle sijn volck ..." (added by contemporary hand)
• fol. 162r — Prayers to be read before and after receiving the Holy Sacrament
• Flyleaf 8 verso — List of saints in sixteenth-century cursive hand, identical to beginning of list on fol. 70v in the Litany

Decorations

• fol. 14v — Large Post-medieval miniature, "Mater dolorosa"
• fol. 15r — Six line red and blue initial H
• fol. 60v — Full-page Post-medieval miniature, David in Penance
• fol. 142r — Four line red and blue initial H
• fol. 142v — Large red initial I
• fol. 154r — Large red initial I