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This manuscript is a Book of Hours for the Use of Utrecht, made in the Netherlands circa 1460. The text is the translation of Gerard Groote and is written in Gothic textualis script; the Hours of the Cross are missing. The manuscript has three large illuminated initials attributed to the Masters of Margriet Uutenham.
Support: Parchment; Extent: ii+127+ii; 140 x 98 mm bound to 153 x 110 mm; Foliation: Sporadic modern foliation in pencil, usually every tenth leaf, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (15, -1 -2 +13), 2-5 (10), 6 (12), 7-8 (10, -9 -10), 9 (10, -1), 10-12 (10), 13 (8, -6 -7 -8); Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords, lower right last verso of each gathering (except the first, eighth, and last gatherings), partially or almost entirely trimmed away (fols. 23v, 33v, 43v, 53v, 65v, 75v, 92v, 102v, 112v, 122v)
One column of nineteen lines; frame-ruled in black ink with double horizontal bounding lines; prickings visible; written area: 88 x 55 mm
Gothic--textualis
Three large illuminated initials with full foliate borders with floral motifs (fols. 15r, 60r, 84r); large five-line flourished initials in red, blue, purple, and green ink, some illuminated, at secondary text divisions; one- and two-line initials in alternating red and blue throughout; remnants of adhesive on folio 14r, possibly from a missing miniature; color reproduction of folio 84r attached to rear endleaf
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Paper flyleaves
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Netherlands
Circa 1460
Seventeenth-century, blind-tooled vellum over pasteboards with panel design; labeled on spine Getijde van de H. MARIA
Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)
Bookplate (with motto Iour de ma vie) of the Rt. Honorable John, Lord De la Warr (1693-1766); W. J. Gilbert, St. Louis; his sale, Philadelphia, June 7, 1909, n. 242; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Netherlands
Circa 1460
Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)
Bookplate
This manuscript is a Book of Hours for the Use of Utrecht, made in the Netherlands circa 1460. The text is the translation of Gerard Groote and is written in Gothic textualis script; the Hours of the Cross are missing. The manuscript has three large illuminated initials attributed to the Masters of Margriet Uutenham.
Paper flyleaves
Gothic--textualis
Three large illuminated initials with full foliate borders with floral motifs (fols. 15r, 60r, 84r); large five-line flourished initials in red, blue, purple, and green ink, some illuminated, at secondary text divisions; one- and two-line initials in alternating red and blue throughout; remnants of adhesive on folio 14r, possibly from a missing miniature; color reproduction of folio 84r attached to rear endleaf
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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