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/)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 131
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1606296
• deRicci: 60
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2951

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Origin

Place

Netherlands

Summary

This is a mid-fifteenth-century Book of Hours of the Use of Utrecht, written in Dutch using the Geert Groote translation. Large penwork initials and penwork borders mark the main textual divisions. The book contains eight full-page miniatures in ink and colored wash, with limited gilding for the haloes. These miniatures are tipped-in and do not relate iconographically to the portions of the text that they introduce, and as such were likely produced separately. The miniatures on 61v, 87v, 125v, 134v, and 234v include explanatory tituli in Dutch.

Notes

• Obituary of early owner's mother on fol. 8r (August 3: int jaer van l.) and father on fol. 10r (October 8: int jaer van lvii)
   
• Two scribes: Scribe two responsible for fols. 194r-225v; scribe one for everything else
   

Extent

Ii+236+ii; 155 x 120 mm bound to 162 x 131 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (12), 2-7 (8), 8 (9, +1), 9 (8), 10 (10, leaf in position 10 has been replaced), 11 (10, leaf in position 10 has been replaced), 12 (8, -5 -6 -7), 13 (8), 14 (8, +1 +2 -7 -8), 15 (9, +9), 16 (9, +9), 17-18 (8), 19 (5, +5), 20-21 (6), 22-24 (8), 25 (2), 26-28 (8), 29 (9, +9), 30 (8, +1 +8), 31 (2)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Eighteenth-century, Dutch mottled calf, gold-tooled vine-scroll decoration; decorated endpapers; LEGENDE ONSER LIEUE VROUWE stamped in gold on spine

Layout

One column of eighteen lines, ruled in black ink, prickings visible on some leaves; written area: 95 x 61 mm

Decoration

Eight full-page inserted color wash miniatures, some with gold paint, representing: Christ in a monk's habit surrounded by twelve lambs (fol. 61v); Christ in a monk's habit carrying the cross (fol. 87v); Pentecost (fol. 97v); Saint Veronica holding her Veil (fol. 125v); Last Judgment (fol. 134v); Christ holding Two Souls (fol. 155v); Noli me Tangere (fol. 226v); and the Instruments of the Passion (fol. 234v); eight large eight-to-eleven-line pen flourished initials with full borders in red, blue, purple, and green; three-to-four-line flourished initials in red and blue at secondary text divisions; one-line initials in alternating red and blue throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Henry Young (bookdealer), Liverpool, sale March 1910, catalogue 409, no. 215; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; catalogue entry of Young sale attached to endpaper with notes in hand of John Frederick Lewis; obituaries of an early owner's mother (August 3: int jaer van l.) and father (October 8: int jaer van lvii)
   

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. 60.
• 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. 145, no. 131.
• Webber, Philip K., "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries," Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique / Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in België 47 (1976): pp. 487-491 (article pp. 459-513).
• Rudy, Kate, Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015), pp. 134-139, 278.
• TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) (http://www.cn-telma.fr/luxury-bound/manuscrit2951/)

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, in Dutch, Use of Utrecht
• fol. 13r — Hours of the Virgin, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 62r — Hours of Eternal Wisdom, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 88r — Short Hours of the Holy Cross, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 98r — Hours of the Holy Spirit, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 118r — Various prayers, including prayers to be said before and after receiving the Holy sacrament
• fol. 126r — Various prayers, including prayers of thankful praise, in front of a crucifix, for indulgence, and prayers to the Virgin, to Saint Bartholomew, to one's guardian angel, and to Saints Barbara and Catherine
• fol. 135r — Penitential Psalms, translation of Geert Groote, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 156r — Office of the Dead, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 194r — Readings from the Office for Good Friday (Rubric: Hier beghint die dienst vanden goeden vridaghe die eerste prophecie)
• fol. 227r — Easter Processional (Rubric: Hier beghint die processie vanden hilghen paesdach)
• fol. 235r — Hymn, "Singhet mitter tonghen ..." (Pange lingua gloriosi; rubric: Van des heilighen sacraments daghe een ymnien)

Decorations

• Flyleaf 2 recto — Printed sale catalog clipping
• fol. 13r — Ten line decorated initial O
• fol. 13r — Penwork border
• fol. 23v — Four line decorated G
• fol. 37v — Four line decorated G
• fol. 61v — Full-page miniature, Christ in monk's habit, surrounded by twelve lambs
• fol. 62r — Eight line decorated initial M
• fol. 62r — Penwork border
• fol. 63r — Four line decorated initial O
• fol. 73v — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 75v — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 77v — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 79r — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 81r — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 84r — Four line decorated initial B
• fol. 87v — Full-page miniature, Christ in a monk's habit, carrying the cross
• fol. 88r — Eight line decorated initial H
• fol. 88r — Penwork border
• fol. 89v — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 91v — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 93r — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 94r — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 95r — Four line decorated initial B
• fol. 97v — Full-page miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 98r — Nine line decorated initial H
• fol. 98r — Penwork border
• fol. 104v — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 107r — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 109v — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 112r — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 118v — Five line decorated initial O
• fol. 125v — Full-page miniature, Saint Veronica holding her Veil
• fol. 134v — Full-page miniature, Last Judgement
• fol. 135r — Nine line decorated initial H
• fol. 135r — Penwork border
• fol. 155v — Full-page miniature, Christ holding Two Souls
• fol. 156r — Eight line decorated initial M
• fol. 156r — Penwork border
• fol. 194r — Decorated initial
• fol. 194r — Penwork border
• fol. 226v — Full-page miniature, Noli me Tangere
• fol. 227r — Six line decorated initial D
• fol. 227r — Penwork border
• fol. 234v — Full-page miniature, Instruments of the Passion
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Printed sale catalog clipping