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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.
Support: Mixed; 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)
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
Hybrida
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
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.
Small finding tabs of leather on fore edge
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.
Eastern Netherlands
Circa 1505
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
Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)
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
Eastern Netherlands
Circa 1505
Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)
Early sixteenth-century ownership inscription of Sister Lysebet van Karnehe
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.
Small finding tabs of leather on fore edge
Hybrida
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
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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