Accession number
MS M.349
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.349).
Created
Delft, Netherlands, ca. 1440.
Binding
Dutch 16th-century brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled front and back with acorns in center panel, 2 heart-shaped silver clasps and catches; lettered on back: HORAE - DUTCH - UTRECHT.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
236 leaves (1 column, 17 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 130 x 93 mm
Provenance
Possibly executed for the Augustinian nuns of St. Agnes in Delft; unidentified initials (S. H.) of a previous owner on fol. 1; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Rossi in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Book of hours for the use of Windesheim; written and illuminated in Delft, the Netherlands, ca. 1440.
Scribe: 3 different scribes.
In the Gerard Groote translation.
Decoration: 9 grisaille miniatures with touches of gold, executed on separate vellum leaves and inserted, 13 large miniatures with borders.
Artist: one of the Masters of the Delft Grisailles.
Scribe: 3 different scribes.
In the Gerard Groote translation.
Decoration: 9 grisaille miniatures with touches of gold, executed on separate vellum leaves and inserted, 13 large miniatures with borders.
Artist: one of the Masters of the Delft Grisailles.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 14r-57v: Hours of the Virgin in Dutch translation of Gerard Groote -- fols. 57v-59r: Prayer of Pope Boniface -- fols. 59r-61v: Prayers at the Holy Sacrament -- fols. 62r-68v: Prayer to a Young King -- fols. 69r-69v: Prayer to the Virgin -- fols. 70r-73r: Prayer for Christmas -- fols. 73r-75r: Prayer for Candlemas -- fols. 75r-76r: Prayer for the Annunciation -- fols. 76v-81r: Prayer the Passion and Resurrection -- fols. 81r-82v: Pentecost -- fols. 82v-85r: Day of the Holy Sacrament -- fols. 85r-86r: Holy Trinity -- fols. 86r-87r: Visitation -- fols. 87r-95v: Suffrages -- fols. 95v-96v: Penitential prayer -- fol. 97r: Blank -- fols. 97v-112v: Seven Joys of the Virgin -- fols. 113r: Blank -- fols. 113v-121r: Short Hours of the Cross in Dutch translation of Gerard Groote -- fols. 121r-125v: Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary -- fols. 126r: Blank -- fols. 126v-145v: Seven Penitential Psalms, Litany -- fols. 145v-148v: Canticles -- fols. 148v-150v: Prayer to the Holy Sacrament -- fol. 151r: Blank -- fols. 151v-154r: Prayer to Apostle, John (?) -- fols. 154r-154v: Prayer to Evangelist, John -- fol. 155r: Blank -- fols. 155v-157v: Prayer to Jerome -- fol. 158r: Blank -- fols. 158v-161v: Prayer to Barbara of Nicomedia -- fols. 162r-184v: Suffrages and antiphon texts for various feast days (fols. 175r, 181r are blank) -- fol. 185r: Blank -- fols. 186r-188r: Suffrage to Catherine of Alexandria -- fols.188r-188v: Suffrage to George of Cappadocia -- fols. 189r-237v: Office of the Dead in Dutch translation of Gerard Groote -- fols. 238r-238v: Blank.
Script
littera textualis formata
Language
Dutch
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