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This manuscript is a Book of Hours for the Use of Utrecht, written in Dutch and Latin in hybrida script circa 1500, with full floral borders inhabited by a variety of creatures marking the major textual divisions and many hour divisions. The texts include the Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms and Litany, and Office of the Dead, all in the translations of Gerard Groote, but also the Hours for the Days of the Week in Latin and prayers in both Dutch and Latin.
Support: Parchment; Extent: vi+154+ vi; 159 x 109 mm bound to 165 x 114 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper or lower right recto; Collation: Structure uncertain
One column of twenty lines; frame-ruled in purple ink with double upper horizontal bounding line; written area: 98 x 66 mm
Hybrida; prayers at end written by multiple hands
Illuminated initials throughout; blue one-line capitals with red and purple pen work decoration throughout; fifteen pages with full floral inhabited borders.
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
Dutch, with Hours of the Days of the Week and some additional prayers in Latin
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.
Southern Netherlands
Circa 1500
Nineteenth-century blue morocco, gilt-stamped decoration; marbled paper pastedowns; stamped in gold on spine, BOOK OF HOURS, DUTCH MS., and c. 1400
Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin
Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia: given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Lewis's handwritten pencil notes on recto of first back end leaf
Southern Netherlands
Circa 1500
Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin
Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia: given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Lewis's handwritten pencil notes on recto of first back end leaf
This manuscript is a Book of Hours for the Use of Utrecht, written in Dutch and Latin in hybrida script circa 1500, with full floral borders inhabited by a variety of creatures marking the major textual divisions and many hour divisions. The texts include the Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms and Litany, and Office of the Dead, all in the translations of Gerard Groote, but also the Hours for the Days of the Week in Latin and prayers in both Dutch and Latin.
Paper flyleaves
Dutch, with Hours of the Days of the Week and some additional prayers in Latin
Hybrida; prayers at end written by multiple hands
Illuminated initials throughout; blue one-line capitals with red and purple pen work decoration throughout; fifteen pages with full floral inhabited borders.
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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