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Manuscript
Book of Hours in Dutch
Author
Authority name: Geert Groote
Note: Translator
Abstract
This book of hours was created in the Netherlands in the fifteenth century. Written entirely in Dutch, its calendar is for the use of Utrecht. However, it was probably made in Haarlem, which produced books of hours with this kind of border decoration. Its folios are highly finished, and it is richly illuminated throughout with sprouting foliage, occasionally inhabited by people, animals, and grotesques. Large decorative initials mark the main divisions in the text, the first of which is historiated with an image of the Virgin and Child. Especially notable is the fine quality and abundance of its burnished gold, found in the initials and vegetation on nearly every page of the manuscript.
Date
Second half of the 15th century CE
Origin
Haarlem, Netherlands
Language:
The primary language in this manuscript is Dutch; Flemish.
Support material
Parchment
Highly finished cream-colored parchment, thin to medium weight
Extent
Foliation: i+157+ii
Flyleaves are added laid paper; modern pencil foliation upper right corners, rectos
Collation
Formula: 1, 1(8,-1), 2(6), 3-6(8), 7(8,-3), 8(*,-2,4,5,7), 9-12(8), 13(6), 14(8), 15(4), 16-21(8), 22(6,-6), ii
Catchwords: Mostly trimmed off; traces found on fols. 50v, 54v, and 62v
Signatures: None
Comments: Quires begin on fols. 1(1), 8(2), 14(3), 22(4), 30(5), 38(6), 44(7), 51(8), 55(9), 63(10), 71(11), 79(12), 87(13), 93(14), 101(15), 105(16), 113(17), 121(18), 129(19), 137(20), 145(21), 153(22)
Dimensions
13.2 cm wide by 19.1 cm high
Written surface
7.0 cm wide by 9.0 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. 1r - 157r:Decoration:
fol. 14r:
The painting of the Virgin and Child has been heavily restored.
fol. 61r:
fol. 83r:
fol. 105r:
fol. 121r:
fol. 153r:
Binding
The binding is not original.
French, eighteenth century, brown, oiled leather, roll border with silver design, cast and chiselled metal corner pieces and clasps
Provenance
Created in the fifteenth century in the Netherlands
Marshall C. Lefferts collection, sold 1901; ex-libris on inside corner, upper board
George H. Richmond, purchased from Lefferts sale, 1901
Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bibliography
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935, p. 793, cat. no. 3.
Contributors
Principal cataloger: Marrow, James
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editors: Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail
Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Dutschke, Consuelo; Emery, Doug; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.
Publisher
The Walters Art Museum
License
Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.
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