summary
Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht
note (text)
This manuscript, which belonged to a Franciscan sister, is an early sixteenth-century Dutch book of hours for the Use of Utrecht in the translation of Geert Groote. The leaves comprising the calendar and several of the leaves with large decorated initials marking the major text divisions are parchment and the rest of the manuscript is paper. The full-page miniature of the Trinity at the beginning is enclosed by a border printed from a metal cut and colored by hand.
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
143
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
103
justification : height (mm)
88
justification : width (mm)
62
origDate : proposed date
Circa 1505
note (history)
Eastern Netherlands
ID Arkindex
9c377221-7199-43fb-988b-13657e7bdbda
HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
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Digitization-type
single page
