Ms. Codex 738 Book of hours
Title
Book of hoursAuthors
- 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 PennsylvaniaLanguage
DutchOrigin
Written in the northeast Netherlands (dialect), 15th century (Webber).
- Date
- 14--
- Place
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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 mmFoliation
Parchment, iii (paper) + 158 + i (parchment); [1-159]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.Support
ParchmentBinding
Contemporary blind stamped goatskin over wooden boards, lower cover detached, upper cover nearly detached.Layout
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
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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- Text
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- URL
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- URL
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Decorations
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- fol. 38r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 38r
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- fol. 42r — Illuminated initial, Initial B, f. 42r
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- fol. 53r — Illuminated border, f. 53r
- fol. 53r — Marginal note, f. 53r
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- 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
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- 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
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- fol. 88v — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 88v
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- 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
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- fol. 98r — Illuminated border, f. 98r
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- 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
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