Accession number
MS H.2
Object title
Book of hours (MS H.2).
Created
Netherlands, 1488.
Binding
Contemporary brown leather with blind-tooling and brass clasps.
Credit line
Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
105 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 190 x 140 mm
Provenance
Made in 1488, probably for a resident of Haarlem (coat of arms of Haarlem on fol. 14r); a woman who has signed in a 15th or 16th century hand the front flyleaf: dit boeck hoert toe celii cegers doechter; the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1962.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Utrecht (calendar); written and illuminated in the north Netherlands in 1488.
The Hours of the Virgin are in the translation of Gerard Groote.
Decoration: 4 full-page miniatures, 4 historiated initials, numerous decorated initials, border decorations and pen flourishes throughout; Dutch Gothic style.
Artists: Sybrant or Jan Spierinck?; baguette below the text on fol. 14r signed: Spir 1488.
The Hours of the Virgin are in the translation of Gerard Groote.
Decoration: 4 full-page miniatures, 4 historiated initials, numerous decorated initials, border decorations and pen flourishes throughout; Dutch Gothic style.
Artists: Sybrant or Jan Spierinck?; baguette below the text on fol. 14r signed: Spir 1488.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-13v: Blank -- fols. 14r-45r: Hours of the Virgin in Dutch Translation by Gerard Groote -- fols. 45v-45r: Blank -- fols. 46v-54r: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 54v-55r: Blank -- fols. 55v-63v: Seven Penitential Psalms -- fols. 63v-71r: Litany -- fols. 71v-72r: Blank -- fols. 72v-90v: Office of the Dead -- fol. 91r: Blank -- fols. 91v-94r: Prayer associated with Communion -- fols. 94v-97r: Prayers -- fols. 97v-105v: Suffrages.
Script
textura
Language
Dutch
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