Flemish hours of the Virgin Mary, with calendar of Utrecht, translation of Geert Groote.
Support: parchment; Extent: 158 leaves : 158 x 107 (95 x 61) mm. bound to 164 x 106 mm; Foliation: Parchment, iii (paper) + 158 + i (parchment); [1-159]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Written in 20 long lines.
Written in a Gothic book hand with notes in a later hand on the last folio and the back endleaf.
Rubrics in red, alternating red and blue capitals, illuminated historiated initials with illuminated borders of Madonna and Child (f. 13r), Gregorian Man of Sorrows (f. 47r), Christ in the attitude of Benediction (f. 75r), Pentecost (f. 95r), The Last Judgment (f. 111r), and Hell's Mouth (f. 127r); one initial appears to be unfinished (f. 69r). Water damage to a number of illuminations and borders.
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Ms. codex.
Incipit: Hier begint onser wrouwen ghetide (f. 13r).
Notes in a later hand (to 1684) on final 2 leaves comprise a family history of the Brantzum family of Friesland. A transcription of this chronicle of the Brantzum family and corrections to the description of the ms. by Philip E. Webber have been made by Lydia Wierda and shelved with the manuscript.
Netherlands
Written in the northeast Netherlands (dialect), 15th century (Webber).
Contemporary blind stamped goatskin over wooden boards, lower cover detached, upper cover nearly detached.
Dutch
Formerly owned by James Laurie; Paul-Louis Feiss (bookplates, inside upper cover).
Sold at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, 15 Dec. 1953 (catalog 1487), lot 390.
Acquired through Lathrop C. Harper, 1956.
Netherlands
Written in the northeast Netherlands (dialect), 15th century (Webber).
Dutch
Formerly owned by James Laurie; Paul-Louis Feiss
Sold at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, 15 Dec. 1953
Acquired through Lathrop C. Harper, 1956.
Flemish hours of the Virgin Mary, with calendar of Utrecht, translation of Geert Groote.
Ms. codex.
Incipit: Hier begint onser wrouwen ghetide (f. 13r).
Notes in a later hand (to 1684) on final 2 leaves comprise a family history of the Brantzum family of Friesland. A transcription of this chronicle of the Brantzum family and corrections to the description of the ms. by Philip E. Webber have been made by Lydia Wierda and shelved with the manuscript.
Written in a Gothic book hand with notes in a later hand on the last folio and the back endleaf.
Rubrics in red, alternating red and blue capitals, illuminated historiated initials with illuminated borders of Madonna and Child (f. 13r), Gregorian Man of Sorrows (f. 47r), Christ in the attitude of Benediction (f. 75r), Pentecost (f. 95r), The Last Judgment (f. 111r), and Hell's Mouth (f. 127r); one initial appears to be unfinished (f. 69r). Water damage to a number of illuminations and 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.
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