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This manuscript is a late fifteenth-century Dutch book of hours for the Use of Utrecht with a calendar for the Use of Maastricht. Occasional corrections or additions are written in the lower margin with points of insertion marked in the text, possibly by the scribe. Two miniatures, a Pieta and a penitent David, are by a much later artist.
Support: Parchment; Extent: viii+164+viii; 142 x 100 mm bound to 150 x 115 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; added half folio between fols. 153 and 154, marked 153a; Collation: Structure uncertain; Signatures: Possible trimmed signature b, fols. 25r-26r, lower right recto
One column of nineteen lines; frame-ruled in black ink; written area: 96 x 63 mm
Hybrida (Netherlandish)
Two miniatures (Mater dolorosa, fol. 14v; David in penance, fol. 60v) added by post-medieval hand; large five-line flourished initials in red, blue, and purple ink at major text divisions; one- and two-line initials in alternating 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.
First seven front flyleaves are modern paper, the eighth is parchment; first back flyleaf is parchment, last seven are modern paper
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
Late 15th century
Dark red morocco, gold-tooled in panel design, gold-tooled inner edges, marbled endleaves; HORAE / DUTCH MS. / XV. CENTURY stamped on gold-tooled spine with false raised bands; bound by H. Zucker of Philadelphia after 1912; in original wooden boards at Anderson sale in 1912
Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)
Lambertus and Conradus Eerens (sixteenth century); W.C. Crane; his sale New York, Anderson Auction Co., December 9, 1912, no. 386; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Names of Lambertus Eerens and Conradus Eerens appears in sixteenth-century cursive hand on recto of original front flyleaf; name of Conradus Eerens appears twice again in lower margin of fol. 19r with date "1511" written in red ink; Same hand wrote list of saints on reverse of parchment flyleaf; Description of manuscript signed "Anderson Auction Co." and dated 10/12/1912, written in modern hand on original back flyleaf
Netherlands
Late 15th century
Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)
Lambertus and Conradus Eerens
This manuscript is a late fifteenth-century Dutch book of hours for the Use of Utrecht with a calendar for the Use of Maastricht. Occasional corrections or additions are written in the lower margin with points of insertion marked in the text, possibly by the scribe. Two miniatures, a Pieta and a penitent David, are by a much later artist.
First seven front flyleaves are modern paper, the eighth is parchment; first back flyleaf is parchment, last seven are modern paper
Hybrida (Netherlandish)
Two miniatures (Mater dolorosa, fol. 14v; David in penance, fol. 60v) added by post-medieval hand; large five-line flourished initials in red, blue, and purple ink at major text divisions; one- and two-line initials in alternating 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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