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Title

South Netherlands Book of Hours (The Hawley Hours)

Other related names

• Workshop of the Masters of the Zwolle Bible, artist
• M. de La Grange, former owner
• Elaine Hawley, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Misc. Ms. 146
(Lancaster, United States, Franklin & Marshall College, Shadek-Fackenthal Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/manuscripts/detail.php?id=5
• 1988-Lawrence-Witten-description: Misc. Ms. 93

Publisher

Shadek-Fackenthal Library

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Origin

Place

Zwolle, Netherlands

Summary

This is a North Netherlandish Book of Hours of circa 1470, the text of which is based on the Dutch translation of Geert Groote. The book begins with an unillustrated calendar (fols. 1r-12v) before continuing with the Hours of the Virgin (fols. 13r-50r), which is introduced by a historiated initial featuring the Virgin and Child and a full border containing angels, the only figurative decoration in the book. The figurative decoration can be ascribed to the workshop of the Masters of the Zwolle Bible. Other major sections are introduced by large illuminated initials featuring expansive areas of gold and foliate bar borders typical of Dutch book illustration of the fifteenth century: the Hours of the Cross (fols. 51r-73v), Hours of the Holy Spirit (fols. 74r-98v), and Hours the Holy Wisdom (fols. 100r-121r), as well as the Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers (fols. 122r-140v) and Office of the Dead (fols. 142r-178r). The textual subdivisions within each section are marked by illuminated initials and bar borders with flourishes.

Notes

• Most pricking preserved at extreme margins
   
• July 1988 description by Lawrence Witten on file at Archives and Special Collections Department, Franklin and Marshall College
   
• Trace of removed ex-libris on recto of final lower flyleaf
   
• Guards inserted between each gathering
   
• Prayers in Dutch in a different hand added on fols. 99r-99v and 141r
   

Extent

Ii+178+ii; 162 x 118 mm bound to 165 x 124 mm

Foliation

Unfoliated

Collation

1 (12), 2-5 (8), 6 (6), 7-8 (8), 9 (8, -1), 10-11 (8), 12 (10), 13-14 (8), 15 (6), 16-17 (8), 18 (4), 19 (8), 20 (6), 21-22 (8), 23 (8, -1)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Perhaps original, though rebacked; beveled beech boards covered in calf with a central panel of triple rules forming a pattern of lozenges; the five bands of the original back were sewn onto thongs, still visible, which were drawn into channels in the covers, glued, and pegged; most of the pegs remain; the two well-wrought brass catches, each fastened with two brass nails, are present on the upper cover, as are the brass and leather attachments on the lower; the catches themselves have been lost

Layout

One column of eighteen lines; ruled in brown ink; written area: 85 x 61 mm

Decoration

One historiated initial; five large illuminated initials; six foliate bar borders; thirty smaller illuminated initials and thirty illuminated single-side bar borders; alternating blue and red initials throughout; alternating blue and gold initials in the litany

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Ownership note written in pencil, in French, on verso of first upper flyleaf: "11, Ex de M. de La Grange, no. 9"; given to Franklin and Marshall College in 1988 by Elaine Hawley of Lancaster, PA
   

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• Dutch
• Illumination
• Netherlands
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Summary of contents, in English
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Ownership note, in French
• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 13r — Hours of the Virgin
• fol. 51r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 74r — Hours of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 98v — Prayer in Dutch in a different hand, "In teghenivoer dich..."
• fol. 100r — Hours of the Holy Wisdom
• fol. 122r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 141r — Prayer in Dutch in a different hand, "Siele Christi heilicht mi..."
• fol. 142r — Office of the Dead
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Summary of contents, in English
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Ownership note, in French

Decorations

• fol. 13r — Inhabited initial H, Virgin and Child
• fol. 13r — Foliate bar border with angels
• fol. 21r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 21r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 29r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 29r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 32r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 32r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 34v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 34v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 37v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 37v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 40v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 40v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 45v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 45v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 51r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 51r — Foliate bar border
• fol. 57v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 57v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 61r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 61r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 63r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 63r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 65r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 65r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 67r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 67r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 68v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 68v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 71v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 71v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 74r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 74r — Foliate bar border
• fol. 81r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 81r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 83v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 83v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 86r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 86r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 88r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 88r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 90r — Penwork initial G
• fol. 92v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 92v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 95r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 95r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 100r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 100r — Foliate bar border
• fol. 101r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 101r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 107v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 107v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 110r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 110r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 112r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 112r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 113v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 113v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 115r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 115r — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 116v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 116v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 118v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 118v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 122r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 122r — Foliate bar border
• fol. 130v — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 130v — Illuminated bar border
• fol. 142r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 142r — Foliate bar border
• fol. 168r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 168r — Illuminated bar border