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Title

Psalter-Hours

Other related names

• Groote, Gerard, 1340-1384, translator (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86074245.html)
• Antonis Rogiersz uten Broec (Master of the Boston City of God), artist
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Servais, Gaspar-Joseph de, 1735-1807, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008029676.html)
• Perkins, Oliver Henry, -1912, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr99001073.html)
• Messieurs Du Trieu, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 183 vol. 2
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1547292
• deRicci: 22
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2958

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Dutch, Flemish

Origin

Place

Netherlands

Summary

This combined Psalter and Book of Hours, written in Dutch around 1450-1465, has been divided into two volumes at a later date (likely in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century). The Psalter, arranged for fortnightly reading (fols. 12r-193v), is the translation begun by Geert Groote and completed by Johan Scutken (d. 1423). The Psalter, with early numerals added in the margins, is followed by the Canticles and Litany, and Augustine's prologue to the Psalms. There follows the Hours of Eternal Wisdom, the long Hours of the Cross, the Office of the Dead, and the unusual Hours of the Pentecost. A single folio with instructions for use has been added in a contemporary hand (fol. 281). The seven miniatures included in this manuscript (only one of which is in the first volume) were painted by one of the few Netherlandish illuminators for whom we have a name: Antonis Rogiersz Uten Broec, who was mainly active in Utrecht in the 1450s and 1460s. All seven miniatures have panel border surrounds and are blank on their recto sides.

Extent

I+152+i; 140 x 93 mm bound to 147 x 97 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (4, +1 +4), 2-12 (8), 13 (9, +1 +3 +9), 14 (8), 15 (9, +5), 16 (8), 17 (9, +7), 18 (8), 19 (9, +2), 20 (8)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century, mottled calf, gilt edges, spines decorated with gold-tooled panels and labeled PSALMEN TOM II, red edges; in case

Layout

Edges trimmed; one column of twenty-one lines, ruled in brown ink (written area: 92 x 62 mm)

Decoration

Six full-page inserted miniatures with full foliate borders, five six-to-eight-line initials with full foliate border, several three-to-six-line initials with spray extensions, two-line gold initials throughout, one-line initials in alternating red and blue throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Two scribes: scribe two, fol. 281r-v only

Provenance

• Gaspar-Joseph de Servais (1735-1807), Mechelin (Malines), Belgium; his sale Mechlin, Messieurs Du Trieu, October 3, 1808, p. 31; lot. 354; Oliver Henry Perkins (Des Moines, Iowa); his sale New York, Anderson Galleries, March 23, 1926, lot 561; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; inside front cover, signature of Gaspar-Joseph de Servais and bookplate of Oliver Henry Perkins
   

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Netherlands
• Flemish
• Christian
• Devotion
• Private devotional text
• Prayer book
• Miniature
• Illumination
• Illustration

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 131r — Psalms for Saturday
• fol. 172v — Psalms for Monday
• fol. 174v — Psalms for Tuesday
• fol. 177r — Psalms for Wednesday
• fol. 179r — Psalms for Thursday
• fol. 183r — Psalms for Friday
• fol. 189r — Psalms for Saturday
• fol. 193v — Canticles followed by Litany, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 211r — Saint Augustine's Prologue in praise of the Psalms, in Dutch; incipit: Dit sanc der psalmen heylicht dat lichaem Het verciert der siel... [fol. 211r]; explicit: Mer die sanc der psalmen toent dat ewighe lof godes ende die oneyndelike glorie. [fol. 212v]
• fol. 215r — Hours of Eternal Wisdom, translation of Geert Groote: Preface
• fol. 217r — Hours of Eternal Wisdom, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 236r — Long Hours of the Cross, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 255r — Office of the Dead, short form, translation of Geert Groote
• fol. 267r — Hours of the Pentecost (beginning with Vesper and Compline)
• fol. 277r — Prayer to the Trinity, "Van heylighen drieuolditheit"; incipit: Gheloest ende gheeert... [fol. 277r]; explicit: Ende onfanc minen gheest in die throen dijns ewighen rijcs. Amen. [fol. 280r]
• fol. 281r — Psalm readings for certain spiritual needs, and for Wednesday through Friday

Decorations

• fol. 130v — Full-page miniature, Virgin and Child with adoring nun
• fol. 130v — Panel border
• fol. 131r — Foliate border
• fol. 131r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 149r — Foliate border
• fol. 149r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 160r — Foliate border
• fol. 160r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 163r — Foliate border
• fol. 163r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 166r — Foliate border
• fol. 166r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 169r — Foliate border
• fol. 169r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 172v — Foliate border
• fol. 172v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 179r — Foliate border
• fol. 179r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 183r — Foliate border
• fol. 183r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 189r — Foliate border
• fol. 189r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 209r — Foliate border
• fol. 209r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 211r — Foliate border
• fol. 211r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 214v — Full-page miniature, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Barbara
• fol. 214v — Panel border
• fol. 215r — Panel border
• fol. 215r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 216v — Full-page miniature, Resurrection
• fol. 216v — Panel border
• fol. 217r — Panel border
• fol. 217r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 225r — Foliate border
• fol. 225r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 226r — Foliate border
• fol. 226r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 229r — Foliate border
• fol. 229r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 230v — Foliate border
• fol. 230v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 232r — Foliate border
• fol. 232r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 235v — Full-page miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 235v — Panel border
• fol. 236r — Panel border with drollery
• fol. 236r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 241r — Foliate border
• fol. 241r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 243r — Foliate border
• fol. 243r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 245r — Foliate border
• fol. 245r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 246v — Foliate border
• fol. 246v — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 247v — Foliate border
• fol. 247v — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 249v — Foliate border
• fol. 249v — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 251v — Foliate border
• fol. 251v — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 254v — Full-page miniature, Funeral
• fol. 254v — Panel border
• fol. 255r — Panel border
• fol. 255r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 266v — Full-page miniature, Nativity
• fol. 266v — Panel border
• fol. 267r — Panel border
• fol. 267r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 268v — Foliate border
• fol. 268v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 269r — Foliate border
• fol. 269r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 273v — Foliate border
• fol. 273v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 274r — Foliate border
• fol. 274r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 274v — Foliate border
• fol. 274v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 275v — Foliate border
• fol. 275v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 276r — Foliate border
• fol. 276r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 277r — Foliate border
• fol. 277r — Illuminated initial G