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://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86074245.html)
• Lysebet, van Karnehe, Sister, former owner
• Hartung, T.L., former owner
• Krauth, Charles P. (Charles Porterfield), 1823-1883, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85827486.html)
• Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85207867.html)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 257
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Origin

Place

Eastern Netherlands

Summary

This manuscript, which belonged to a Franciscan sister, is an early sixteenth-century Dutch book of hours for the Use of Utrecht in the translation of Geert Groote. The leaves comprising the calendar and several of the leaves with large decorated initials marking the major text divisions are parchment and the rest of the manuscript is paper. The full-page miniature of the Trinity at the beginning is enclosed by a border printed from a metal cut and colored by hand.

Notes

• Small finding tabs of leather on fore edge
   

Watermark

Close variant of Briquet 12855 (Sens, 1505)

Extent

Iii+242+iv; 143 x 103 mm bound to 144 x 104 mm

Foliation

Modern pagination in ink, upper outer recto; modern foliation in pencil on leaves with illuminations and major ornamented initials only, lower right recto; references in this record are to pagination

Collation

1 (1, +1), 2 (12), 3 (9, +1), 4-7 (8), 8 (10), 9 (14, -9), 10-12 (8), 13 (12, -11 -12), 14 (8), 15 (10), 16 (8), 17 (10, -2), 18-19 (10), 20-21 (8), 22 (10), 23 (8), 24 (12, -6 -11), 25-28 (8)

Signatures

Quires 5-8 and 25 signed b-e and z in contemporary ink, lower right first recto (pages 59, 75, 91, 107, 429)

Support

Mixed

Binding

Blind-stamped sheep, circa 1500, with stamps of the Agnus Dei, fleur-de-lis, and Virgin and Child; damage in location of former clasps on front cover; twentieth-century rebacking by Fritz Eberhardt with gilt spine title Deutsches Offizienbuch

Layout

One column of twenty to twenty-two lines; frame-ruled in lead with double horizontal bounding lines, mostly erased; written area: 88 x 62 mm

Decoration

One full-page miniature with a metal-cut border (page 28); one illuminated initial with a border of foliage and drolleries (page 29); eleven large blue and red pen-flourished initials; two-line initials, one-line initials, and paragraph marks alternating between red and blue throughout

Script

Hybrida

Provenance

• Early sixteenth-century ownership inscription of Sister Lysebet van Karnehe (fol. 242v and possibly front flyleaf iii verso); nineteenth-century inscription in pencil of T. L. Hartung (front flyleaf iii verso); German catalog clipping pasted in (end flyleaf ii recto); Lutheran pastor and editor Charles Porterfield Krauth (seminary library bookplate, inside front cover); gift of Charles Porterfield Krauth to Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1883 (bookplate inside front cover; embossed stamp, folio 242); sold at auction at Sotheby's, 3 December 2013, lot 52
   

Related resources

• Dutschke, Consuelo Wager, and Tanis, James R, Leaves of gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001) no. 29, pp. 98-99

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 16th century
• Christian
• Dutch
• Netherlands
• Illumination
• Miniature
• Original binding
• Devotion

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 3 — Calendar
• 29 — Hours of the Trinity
• 133 — Psalms
• 193 — Hours of the Sweet Name of Jesus
• 213 — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• 279 — Hours of Maundy Thursday
• 303 — Prayers for the Eucharist
• 357 — Hours of the Virgin Mary
• 445 — Hours of All Saints

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Charles Porterfield Krauth Library
• 28 — Full-page miniature, Throne of Grace Trinity
• 29 — Illuminated initial H
• 29 — Illuminated acanthus and floral border
• 121 — Decorated initial G
• 121 — Decorated initial G
• 133 — Decorated initial H
• 193 — Decorated initial H
• 213 — Decorated initial H
• 249 — Decorated initial H
• 279 — Decorated initial O
• 303 — Decorated initial H
• 357 — Decorated initial W
• 393 — Decorated initial G
• 403 — Decorated initial H
• 445 — Decorated initial A