[Book of hours]

Contributor:

Groote, Gerard, 1340-1384 (translator)

Name:

Catholic Church

Date:

1400

Description:

Flemish hours of the Virgin Mary, with calendar of Utrecht, translation of Geert Groote.

Language:

Dutch; Flemish

Provenance:

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.; Feiss, Paul Louis, 1875-1952, former owner.; Laurie, James, former owner.

Subject:

Brantzum family Genealogy; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish -- Specimens; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); books of hours; devotional calendars; codices (bound manuscripts); illuminations (paintings); Manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Renaissance; genealogies (histories)

Physical Description:

158 leaves : parchment, color illustrations; 158 x 107 (95 x 61) mm bound to 164 x 106 mm

Rights:

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Notes:

Ms. codex.; Foliation: Parchment, iii (paper) + 158 + i (parchment); [1-159]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; Layout: Written in 20 long lines.; Script: Written in a Gothic book hand with notes in a later hand on the last folio and the back endleaf.; Decoration: 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.; Binding: Contemporary blind stamped goatskin over wooden boards, lower cover detached, upper cover nearly detached.; Origin: Written in the northeast Netherlands (dialect), 15th century (Webber).; 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 manuscript by Philip E. Webber have been made by Lydia Wierda and are in the library's file.; Dutch.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 738