summary
Book of Hours, use of Utrecht. Obits in calendar; Corrections in margins; Calendar for Utrecht Use; ff. 13r-35v: Hours of Eternal Wisdom, Geert Grote compilation; ff. 35v-67r: Hours of the Cross, Geert Grote compilation; ff. 67v-95r: Hours of the Holy Spirit, Geert Grote compilation.
note (text)
This compact Book of Hours, which lacks certain frequently-found texts including the Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, and Office of the Dead, contains Dutch translations of other, less common devotional texts first authored by Geert Groote around 1380. The calendar is of the Use of Utrecht, with an entry in red for Saint Jeroen (17 August, fol. 8v). The Hours of Eternal Wisdom occurs directly after the calendar. The miniatures in this Book of Hours, of smaller dimensions than the text pages, were inserted into the Hours of the Cross at least twenty years after the manuscript was produced. They are inserted randomly within the text and do not mark the traditional divisions of the Hours of the Cross. These miniatures were painted by a member of a group of anonymous artists known collectively as the "Masters of the Suffrages." These artists were active in Leiden during the first decades of the sixteenth century.
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
143
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
104
justification : height (mm)
88
justification : width (mm)
59
note (deco)
3 illuminated initials, 11 flourished initials, red and blue letters throughout
binding
S. XIXex Scottish, vellum binding by Kerr & Richardson of Glasgow, marbled endpapers; rebacked by Jacques Desmonts of James Macdonald Co., East Norwalk, Connecticut, 2.
origDate : proposed date
c.1520
note (history)
Inscription on 3rd front flyleaf: Purchased at Ghent in 1866 by Robert Highfield of Sheffield, England
provenance
Robert Highfield, Sheffield, England (purchased, 1866); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia.
ID Arkindex
fd00848c-cfa9-45ee-9940-77b09ac34c60
HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
Philadelphia_Free_Library_of_Philadelphia_Lewis_E_130.tar.gz
Digitization-type
single page
note (temp)
http://telma.irht.cnrs.fr/outils/luxury-bound/manuscrit2950/
