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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht

Other related names

• Groote, Gerard, 1340-1384, translator (http://viaf.org/viaf/27074604)
• Masters of Margriet Uitenham (Netherlandish illuminator, active ca. 1475), artist (http://viaf.org/viaf/96045434)
• De la Warr, John West, Earl, 1693-1766, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/34358601)
• Gilbert, W. J., former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2003040673.html)
• 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 129
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1560761
• deRicci: 59

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Origin

Place

Netherlands

Summary

This manuscript is a Book of Hours for the Use of Utrecht, made in the Netherlands circa 1460. The text is the translation of Gerard Groote and is written in Gothic textualis script; the Hours of the Cross are missing. The manuscript has three large illuminated initials attributed to the Masters of Margriet Uutenham.

Notes

• Paper flyleaves
   

Extent

Ii+127+ii; 140 x 98 mm bound to 153 x 110 mm

Foliation

Sporadic modern foliation in pencil, usually every tenth leaf, upper right recto

Collation

1 (15, -1 -2 +13), 2-5 (10), 6 (12), 7-8 (10, -9 -10), 9 (10, -1), 10-12 (10), 13 (8, -6 -7 -8)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords, lower right last verso of each gathering (except the first, eighth, and last gatherings), partially or almost entirely trimmed away (fols. 23v, 33v, 43v, 53v, 65v, 75v, 92v, 102v, 112v, 122v)

Binding

Seventeenth-century, blind-tooled vellum over pasteboards with panel design; labeled on spine Getijde van de H. MARIA

Layout

One column of nineteen lines; frame-ruled in black ink with double horizontal bounding lines; prickings visible; written area: 88 x 55 mm

Decoration

Three large illuminated initials with full foliate borders with floral motifs (fols. 15r, 60r, 84r); large five-line flourished initials in red, blue, purple, and green ink, some illuminated, at secondary text divisions; one- and two-line initials in alternating red and blue throughout; remnants of adhesive on folio 14r, possibly from a missing miniature; color reproduction of folio 84r attached to rear endleaf

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Bookplate (with motto Iour de ma vie) of the Rt. Honorable John, Lord De la Warr (1693-1766); W. J. Gilbert, St. Louis; his sale, Philadelphia, June 7, 1909, n. 242; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

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. 59.
• 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 Library, 1937), p. 142, no. 127.
• Webber, Philip E., "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries," Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in België 47 (1976): 484-486 (article: pp. 459-513).

Keywords

• 15th century
• Netherlands
• Dutch
• Book of Hours
• Private devotional text
• Devotion
• Christian
• Gothic
• Illumination

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Calendar, Utrecht Use, with computistical notes
• fol. 15r — Hours of the Virgin, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 60r — Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 83v — Rubric for the Hours of the Cross
• fol. 84r — Office of the Dead
• fol. 125r — Intercessory prayers

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Rt. Honorable John, Lord De la War
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Print catalog entry
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Print catalog entry
• fol. 15r — Eleven line illuminated initial with full foliate border Initial H
• fol. 24r — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 33r — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 37r — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 46v — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 52r — Four line decorated initial B
• fol. 60r — large Illuminated initial with full foliate border, Initial M
• fol. 71r — Four line decorated initial S
• fol. 72v — Four line decorated initial S
• fol. 74v — Four line decorated initial S
• fol. 76v — Four line decorated initial S
• fol. 78r — Four line decorated initial S
• fol. 84r — Large Illuminated initial with full foliate border, Initial M
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Print catalog entry
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notes in pencil
• Flyleaf 2 verso] (unfolded) — Color reproduction of fol. 84r
• Inside back cover — Print catalog entry