Collection ID: 0053 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Cultus sanctor manuscript, 1381.

Other related names

• Walker, Allan Elliott, 1906-1993, former owner., former owner

Call number

MS V.a.543
(Washington DC, USA, Folger Shakespeare Library)

Alternate identifiers

• https://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=339728

Publisher

Folger Shakespeare Library

Language

Dutch, Flemish

Origin

Place

Flanders

Notes

• Title from spine.
   
• Leaves 62v and 72v blank.
   
• Reclassified from "MS Add 932"
   
• Uniform title: [Book of hours. Dutch]
   

Extent

Leaves ii + 155 + i; 133 x 105 mm

Foliation

Foliated

Support

Parchment

Binding

Bound in leather with gold tooling on spine; marbled paper pastedowns under endleaves. Spine title: Cultus sanctor.

Layout

Written in 14 and 17 long lines (dimensions of written space: 69 x 48 mm and 72 x 28 mm); frame rules in ink; prickings in outer margin.

Decoration

Blue, red, green and gold border on leaf 13r; Gold leaf, red and blue initials with some border on leaves 79r, 99r and 119r; Blue with red flourish initials on leaves 27r, 41r, 47r, 52r, 57r, 63r, 73r, 84v, 87r, 89r, 91r, 93r, 96v; Red and blue initials throughout.

Script

Gothic.

Provenance

• Gift of Dr. Allan E. Walker, Jr., 1986.
   

Subjects topical

• Netherlands

Genres

• Manuscripts, Dutch --14th century

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 14th century
• Flemish
• Dutch
• Netherlands

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, in Dutch
• fol. 13r — Hours of the Virgin, in Dutch
• fol. 79r — Hours of the Holy Spirit, in Dutch
• fol. 99r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers, in Dutch
• fol. 119r — Office of the Dead, in Dutch

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, The Folger Shakespeare Library
• fol. 13r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 13r — Four-sided foliate border
• fol. 27r — Penwork initial G
• fol. 41r — Penwork initial G
• fol. 47r — Penwork initial G
• fol. 52r — Penwork initial G
• fol. 57r — Penwork initial G
• fol. 63r — Penwork initial G
• fol. 73r — Penwork initial B
• fol. 79r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 79r — Three-sided bar border with foliate sprays
• fol. 84v — Penwork initial G
• fol. 87r — Penwork initial G
• fol. 89r — Penwork initial G
• fol. 91r — Penwork initial G
• fol. 93r — Penwork initial G
• fol. 96v — Penwork initial B
• fol. 99r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 99r — Three-sided bar border with foliate sprays
• fol. 119r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 119r — Three-sided bar border with foliate sprays