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Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht Lewis E 132
Free Library of Philadelphia
Manuscript Overview
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Abstract

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.

Physical Description

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

Layout

One column of twenty lines; frame-ruled in purple ink with double upper horizontal bounding line; written area: 98 x 66 mm

Script

Hybrida; prayers at end written by multiple hands

Decoration

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.

Notes

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.

Spine

Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
16th century
Netherlands
Dutch
Book of Hours
Private devotional text
Devotion
Christian
Illustration
Free Library of Philadelphia

Place of Origin

Southern Netherlands

Date

Circa 1500

Binding

Nineteenth-century blue morocco, gilt-stamped decoration; marbled paper pastedowns; stamped in gold on spine, BOOK OF HOURS, DUTCH MS., and c. 1400

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin

Provenance

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

return to search Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht Lewis E 132

Place of Origin

Southern Netherlands

Date

Circa 1500

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin

Provenance

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

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

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.

Notes

Paper flyleaves

Dutch, with Hours of the Days of the Week and some additional prayers in Latin

Script note

Hybrida; prayers at end written by multiple hands

Decoration Note

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.

References
Binding Images

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.

Spine

Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
16th century
Netherlands
Dutch
Book of Hours
Private devotional text
Devotion
Christian
Illustration
Free Library of Philadelphia
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