Content:
Contains: (ff. 2v-13r) Calendar with computus tables (2v, 13r). -
(ff. 14r-15r) Prayer to St. James. - (16r-51r) Hours of the Virgin.
- (ff. 52r-73v) Long Hours of the Cross. - (ff. 74r-93v) Hours of
Eternal Wisdom. Incomplete (without beginning). - (ff. 94r-118v)
Hours of the Holy Spirit. - (119r-140r) Hours of All Saints. - (ff.
141r-157r) Penitential Psalms and Litany of the Saints. - (ff.
158r-191v) Office of the Dead. - (ff. 192r-203r) Prayers. - (f.
203v) Colophon. - Empty: ff. 2r (except for crossed out owner
inscription), 13v, 15v, 51v, 140v, 157v. Note:
Ownership, origin and date based on colophon: (f. 203v) "Dit
getijboeck hoirt toe der eerbare vrouwen Aef van bolgerien wonende
In die beverwijck. Ende heeft gescreven doer een bril broeder
Gherijt van Castrinchem regulier in die beverwijck in sijn vier
ende tsestichste jaer. Int jaer ons heren dusent vierhondert acht
ende tnegentich. van onser vrouwen nativitas of tot die advent toe.
God si geloeft. Amen". - Another ownership note (16th century) on
the flyleaf (f. 1v): "Dit boeck hoort toe Cornelisge Claes Die dit
boeck vint macht om goodtswil weder brengen int hem belieft".
Illumination: Painted decoration by Spierinc, dated 1499 (see f.
163r). - Leaves with painted decoration cut out between ff. 15 and
16, 73 and 74.
Binding: Post-medieval binding. - Rebound using medieval techniques
(c. 1970-1990): leather over wooden boards with bevelled edges;
bookblock sewn on five supports; two clasp fastenings (closing back
to front). - Remnants of post-medieval binding kept in special
folder under shelfmark BPL 2747 bis
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Gumbert 2009):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419
Also described by BNM, MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database
RKD, The Hague). Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
