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

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht; Scenes from the Life of Christ

Other related names

• Groote, Gerard, 1340-1384, translator (http://viaf.org/viaf/27074604/)
• Master of the Suffrages (North Netherlandish illuminator, active circa 1520), artist (http://viaf.org/viaf/95984012/)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Henry Young & Sons, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 130
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1542269
• deRicci: 56
• Leaves-of-gold: 25
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2950

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin

Origin

Place

Leiden, Netherlands

Summary

This compact Book of Hours, which lacks certain frequently-found texts including the Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, and Office of the Dead, contains Dutch translations of other, less common devotional texts first authored by Geert Groote around 1380. The calendar is of the Use of Utrecht, with an entry in red for Saint Jeroen (17 August, fol. 8v). The Hours of Eternal Wisdom occurs directly after the calendar. The miniatures in this Book of Hours, of smaller dimensions than the text pages, were inserted into the Hours of the Cross at least twenty years after the manuscript was produced. They are inserted randomly within the text and do not mark the traditional divisions of the Hours of the Cross. These miniatures were painted by a member of a group of anonymous artists known collectively as the "Masters of the Suffrages." These artists were active in Leiden during the first decades of the sixteenth century.

Notes

• Corrections/additions added in margins on fols. 59v, 69v, 80v, 83r, 85v, 87v, 88r, 90r
   
• Graded marginal annotations in red in calendar marking celebrations for Saint Anthony
   
• Manuscript: circa 1475-1500; Inserted miniatures: circa 1520
   
• First and last flyleaves are paper, remainder are parchment; marbled endpapers
   
• Average size of leaves with miniatures: 133 x 100 mm
   

Extent

Iii+95+iii; 143 x 104 mm bound to 149 x 105 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto

Collation

1 (8), 2 (4), 3-5 (8), 6 (10, +3 +6), 7 (11, +2 +6 +9), 8 (10, +1 -4 +7), 9 (7, +1), 10 (8), 11 (6), 12 (8)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Scottish, vellum binding by Kerr & Richardson of 89 Queen Street, Glasgow (stamp on lower pastedown), marbled endpapers, late nineteenth century; rebacked by Jacques Desmonts of James Macdonald Co., East Norwalk, Connecticut, 2000

Layout

One column of nineteen lines, ruled in brown ink, prickings visible; written area: 88 x 59 mm

Decoration

Seven full-page miniatures tipped in throughout Hours of Eternal Wisdom, with yellow panel borders decorated with trompe l'oeil depictions of foliage, flowers, and insects, three illuminated initials, eleven flourished initials, red and blue letters throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Purchased at Ghent in 1866 by Robert Highfield of Sheffield, England (note on 3rd front flyleaf); Henry Young and Sons (booksellers), Liverpool, 1910, cat. no. 194; 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. 2034, no. 56.
• 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), pp. 144-145, no. 130.
• Philip E. Webber, "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries," Archief-en bibliotheekwezen in België/ Archives et bibliothèques de Belgique, vol. 47 (1976): pp. 486-487 (article pp. 459-513).
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 91-92, no. 25.
• TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) (http://www.cn-telma.fr/luxury-bound/manuscrit2950/)

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• 16th century
• Dutch
• Gothic
• Netherlands
• Devotion
• Private devotional text
• Miniature

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, Use of Utrecht
• fol. 13r — Hours of Eternal Wisdom, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 36r — Hours of the Cross, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 68r — Hours of the Holy Spirit, translation of Geert Groote

Decorations

• fol. 13r — Large illuminated initial M
• fol. 14r — Four line decorated initial N
• fol. 36r — Large illuminated initial H
• fol. 39r — Full-page miniature, Agony in the Garden
• fol. 39r — Foliate border
• fol. 42r — Full-page miniature, Christ before Pilate
• fol. 42r — Foliate border
• fol. 48r — Full-page miniature, Flagellation
• fol. 48r — Foliate border
• fol. 52r — Full-page miniature, Christ Stripped of His Garments
• fol. 52r — Foliate border
• fol. 55r — Full-page miniature, Christ Carrying the Cross
• fol. 55r — Foliate border
• fol. 58r — Full-page miniature, Nailing of Christ to the Cross
• fol. 58r — Foliate border
• fol. 63r — Full-page miniature, Christ Bids Farewell to His Mother
• fol. 63r — Foliate border
• fol. 68r — Large illuminated initial H
• Insert verso — Manuscript description