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Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht Lewis E 91
Free Library of Philadelphia
Manuscript Overview
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Abstract

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.

Physical Description

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

Layout

One column of nineteen lines; frame-ruled in black ink; written area: 96 x 63 mm

Script

Hybrida (Netherlandish)

Decoration

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.

Notes

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.

Spine

Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
Book of Hours
15th century
Netherlands
Christian
Miniature
Private devotional text
Devotion
Liturgy
Illustration
Free Library of Philadelphia

Place of Origin

Netherlands

Date

Late 15th century

Binding

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

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Provenance

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

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Place of Origin

Netherlands

Date

Late 15th century

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Provenance

Lambertus and Conradus Eerens

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

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.

Notes

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

Script note

Hybrida (Netherlandish)

Decoration Note

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.

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
Book of Hours
15th century
Netherlands
Christian
Miniature
Private devotional text
Devotion
Liturgy
Illustration
Free Library of Philadelphia
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