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Book of hours (MS M.866).

Accession number
MS M.866
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.866).
Created
Netherlands, perhaps Delft, 1415-1420.
Binding
19th-century purple Belgian velvet with silver bosses and 2 clasps.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1953.
Description
215 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 158 x 108 mm
Provenance
Owned in 1732 by Count Ferdinand de Plettenberg, whose signature appears on fol. 1r; his library was housed in the castle of Nordkirchen near Münster, Westphalia; Nordkirchen ex-libris stamp on verso of 3rd flyleaf; descended to Countess Maria de Plettenberg-Mietingen, married in 1833 to Count Nicolas d'Esterhazy Galantha, died 1861; her ex-libris, numbered 1039, pasted inside front cover; in 1903 Nordkirchen became the property of Duke Engelberg d'Arenberg; purchased from Germain Seligman in 1953.
Notes
Ms. book of hours, mostly for the use of Windesheim (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in the Netherlands, perhaps in Delft, ca. 1415-1420; an added section (fol. 194-214) which is not illuminated, was composed in Flanders, ca. 1450.
Decoration: 53 full-page miniatures, 7 half-page miniatures, 10 historiated initials, 24 calendar illustrations, border decoration on all text pages; Dutch Gothic style.
Artist: Master of the Morgan Infancy Cycle.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fol. 13r: Blank -- fols. 13v-62v: Hours of the Virgin -- fol. 63r: Blank -- fols. 63v-77v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fol. 78r: Blank -- fols.78v-89r: Penitential Psalms -- fols. 89v-97v: Litany and Collect -- fol. 98r: Blank -- fols. 98v-101r: Office of the Trinity and Prayers to God -- fols. 101v-103r: Prayer to Christ -- fols. 103v-105r: Prayer of Pope Boniface -- fols. 105v-106r: Prayer to the Holy Sacrament -- fols. 106v-109v: O intemerata and Collect -- fols. 110r-111r: Seven Joys of the Virgin -- fols. 111v-170r: Suffrages -- fol. 170v: Blank -- fols. 171r-193v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 194r-211v: Hours of the Sorrows of the Virgin -- fols. 212r-215v: Obsecro te -- fols.216r-217v: Blank.
Script
littera textualis
Language
Latin
Classification