Content:
Contains: (ff. 1r-12v) Calendar for the diocese of Utrecht. - (ff.
14r-52r) Hours of the Virgin. - (ff. 53-77r) Long Hours of the
Cross. - (ff. 78r-95v) Hours of the Holy Spirit. - (ff. 96r-118r)
Hours of the Eternal Wisdom. - (ff. 119r-138v) Penitential Psalms
and Litany of All Saints. - (ff. 140r-177v) Office of the Dead. -
Empty: ff. 13r-v, 52v, 77v, 118v, 139r-v. - A ruled leaf missing in
the last quire (see stub between ff. 176 and 177), but without text
loss. Note:
Origin: According to Wierda (1995) this ms. is part of the group of
Sarijs mss., most likely coming from Domus Parva, Zwolle.
Script: Copied by the same scribe who wrote ms. Zwolle, GA : Coll.
GAZ 57.
Illumination: Text rubricated. Versals alternating in red and blue;
2-line initials mostly in blue; 4-line initials in gold on painted
grounds with floral border decorated with gold; 9-line initials in
gold at the beginning of the texts, supplemented with painted
decoration in 3 borders (decorative elements include carbuncles).
Historiated initial at the beginning of the book (Virgin with
Child) on a golden ground with (f. 13r), in the style of the
'Sarijs manuscripts' (see Wierda 1995).
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Leather (brown goatskin,
blind-tooled) over wooden boards. Decorated with panel stamp on
both sides (John the Baptist with lamb; described by Verheyden
1933). Two clasp fastenings (closing back to front, renewed). -
Bookblock resewn, spine renewed.
Textual: Book of hours, Dutch translation by Geert Grote. Calendar
with traditional golden number; Petrus ad Vincula (1.8) propably
ìncorrectly in blue (only occurrence); 'Sarijs' (19.1); Franciscan
saints without distinction in rank, but Bernardinus (canonised in
1450) only in the Litany (f. 131r). Female saints in the Litany
closing with Clara, Aldegonda and Elisabeth; no specific prayers
following.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Gumbert 2009):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419
Description (BNM 440):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1906843
Also described by MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD,
The Hague). Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
