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
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First seven front flyleaves are modern paper, the eighth is parchment; first back flyleaf is parchment, last seven are modern paper
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
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