Content:
Contains: (ff. 1-6) Calendar for the diocese of Utrecht. - (ff.
8v-52r) Hours of the Virgin. - (ff. 39v-56r) Long Hours of the
Cross. - (ff. 57v-72r) Hours of the Holy Spirit. - (ff. 73v-88v)
Hours of the Eternal Wisdom. - (ff. 90v-106r) Penitential Psalms
and Litany of All Saints, followed by two communion prayers
(104rv-106r). - (ff. 107v- 127r) Office of the Dead, followed by a
prayer to the four archangels (127r). - (ff. 128v-133r) Prayers to
the Weapons of Christ (Arma Christi), followed by suffrages to St.
John the Baptist, St. Peter and Paul, St. Martin (130r-131r), St.
George (132r) and St. Agatha (133r). - Empty: ff. 7v-8r, 38v-39r,
56v-57r, 72v-73r, 89v-90r, 106v-107r, 127v-128r, 131v, 132v, 133v.
- Also contains notes on the flyleaf and f. 7r. Note:
Illumination: Initials in red and blue and in gold on a painted
background. - At the beginning of every text unit a full page
miniature on the verso, and a decorated initial (partly
historiated) on the recto, supplemented with a three-sided painted
border (Ghent/Bruges style). - The seven miniatures in this
manuscript (ff. 8v, 39v, 57v, 73v, 90v, 107v, 128v) belong the
Masters of the Dark Eyes group.
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary (original). - Leather
(brown, blind-tooled) over extended wooden boards. Decorated with
fillets and loose stamps. Clasp fastenings (closing back to front,
all-metal, renewed). Gilt edges. - Spine renewed.
Textual: Book of hours, Dutch translation by Geert Grote. Calendar
with traditional golden number, only partly filled with saints;
arranged for the diocese of Utrecht (Litany likewise), especially
Holland, with Adelbert (25.7) and Jeroen (17.8) in red; furthermore
mention of Mary Magdalene's conversion (2.4); also some additions
by the scribe. Neither calendar nor Litany testify to a specific
monastical context. Hours of the Eternal Wisdom in a divergent
redaction. In the Litany St. Lucy added after St. Agatha (100v)
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
16th century
