Accession number
MS G.5
Object title
Book of hours (MS G.5).
Created
Utrecht, the Netherlands, ca. 1500.
Binding
Rebinding preserving the early 16th-century Netherlandish covers of brown calf over boards, blind-stamped with four repetitions of a rectangular panel containing six angel musicians surrounded by a Latin legend and two repetitions of a panel with two dogs facing each other over a bone.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
123 leaves (1 column, 24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 156 x 105 mm
Provenance
Purchased in 1940 from William H. Schab, New York for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of the Augustinian Canons of Windesheim Chapter (Hours of the Virgin) and Utrecht (Hours of the Dead); written and illuminated in Utrecht, the Netherlands, ca. 1500.
In the Gerard Groote translation.
Decoration: 3 full-page miniatures, 3 half-page miniatures, 3 historiated initials, 4 tables, borders with flowers, fruits, and insects throughout.
Artists: previously attributed to two artists: one a follower of the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook, and the other an artist close to Sanders Bening and Gerard Horenbout; presently attributed [by Bodo Brinkmann] to the Master of Edward IV of England.
In the Gerard Groote translation.
Decoration: 3 full-page miniatures, 3 half-page miniatures, 3 historiated initials, 4 tables, borders with flowers, fruits, and insects throughout.
Artists: previously attributed to two artists: one a follower of the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook, and the other an artist close to Sanders Bening and Gerard Horenbout; presently attributed [by Bodo Brinkmann] to the Master of Edward IV of England.
Contents
fols. 1r-4v: Blank -- fols. 5r-10v: Calendar (Latin) -- fols. 11r-11v: Table of Golden Numbers (Latin and Dutch) -- fol. 12r: Table of Months, Zodiac signs (Latin) -- fol. 12v: Table of Lunar letters (Latin and Dutch) -- fol. 13r: Table of Astrological numbers (Latin and Dutch) -- fol. 13v: Gospel of John, excerpts (Latin) -- fols. 13v-17v: Short Hours of the Cross (Latin) -- fol. 18r: Blank -- fols. 18v-34v: Hours of the Virgin (incomplete, Latin) -- fols. 35r-41v: Penitential Psalms; Litany (incomplete, Latin) -- fol. 42r: Blank -- fols. 42v-54r: Office of the Dead (incomplete, Latin) -- fols. 54r-58r: Commendation of the Dead (Latin) -- fols. 58r-66v: Prayers (Dutch) -- fols. 67r-73r: Fifteen O's of Bridget of Sweden (Dutch) -- fols. 73r-73v: Prayer (Dutch) -- fols. 73v-80v: Golden litany (Dutch) -- fols. 80v-83r: Prayer to Christ (Dutch) -- fols. 83r-84v: Prayers to the Virgin (Dutch) -- fols. 84v-86r: Prayer to the Virgin and Five Sorrows of the Virgin (Dutch) -- fols. 86r-87r: Seven Joys of the Virgin (Dutch) -- fols. 87r-87v: Prayer (Dutch) -- fols. 87v-88v: Prayer to the Virgin (O intemerata, Dutch) -- fols. 88v-92r: Rosary of the Virgin (Dutch) -- fols. 92r-92v: Prayer (Dutch) -- fols. 93r-99v: Prayers to Saints (Dutch) -- fols. 99v-101v: Three Pater Nosters (Dutch) -- fols. 101v-108r: Passion according to Matthew, excerpt (Dutch) -- fols. 108r-117r: Passion according to John, excerpt (Dutch) -- fols. 117r-118r: Improperia (Dutch) -- fols. 118v-122v: Blank.
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Language
Latin and Dutch
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