Content:
Book of hours (parts) in the Dutch translation/adaptation by Geert
Grote. Contains: (f. 1r-v) Computistic tables, with Sunday Letters
and lunar dates starting from 1426-1428. - (ff. 2r-13v) Calendar,
use of Utrecht. - (ff. 14r-55v) Hours of the Virgin. - (ff.
56r-80v) Hours of the Eternal Wisdom. - (ff. 81r-107r) Long Hours
of the Cross. - (ff. 107v-127v) Prayers, hymns (of St. Andrew, St.
Francis, St. John the Baptist) and exempla. - Empty: ff. 128
(flyleaf), 129 (former pastedown). Note:
Origin: Based on the dialect and on the decoration.
Date: Based on the computus-table on f. 1r-1v and on a note on the
fly-leaf.
Script: Written by two scribes: ff. 1r-13v, 56r-127v (A), 14r-55v
(B).
Binding: Post-medieval binding.
Textual: (f. 14r) "Hier beghint die ghetide van onser liever
vrouwen in duutsche". - (f. 56r) "Hier beghint die ewighe wijsheit
ghetide in duutsche". - (f. 81r) "Hier na beghint die langhe cruus
ghetide in duutsche". - (f. 107v) "Hier beghinnen .vii. psalmen van
onser liever vrouwen [Incipit:] Vrouwe en laet mi niet ghecorgiert
worden inden toorne gods ...". - (f. 114v-119r) "Het was een
clusenaerster ende hadde grote begheeerte in een jaer van gracien
te trecken tot romen ende verdienen die gracie. des openbaerde hoor
die enghel gods ende seide haer dat si bliven soude inder clusen
ende lesen dit navolghende ghebet ... [Incipit:] O du alre soetse
glorioseste begheerlicste maria o du vrouwe ...".
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Rogge & 1887):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:124748
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1937):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491717
Description (Lieftinck 1948):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:489936
Description (BNM 448):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1905975
Also described by MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD,
The Hague). Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century