Form:
1 volume, 165 leaves : full-page miniature, border decoration,
pen-flourished initials ; 195x130 mm Content:
Contains: (ff. 2r-13v) Calendar, use of Utrecht. - (ff. 15r-44r)
Hours of the Virgin. - (ff. 44v-r) Prayer to the Virgin Mary. -
(ff. 45r-61v) Hours of the Eternal Wisdom. - (f. 61v) Prayer to St.
Margaret. - (ff. 62r-80v) Hours of the Holy Ghost. - (f. 80v-81v)
Prayer to Jesus Christ. - (ff. 82r-99v) Hours of the Cross. - (ff.
100r-117r) Hours of All Saints. - (ff. 117v) Prayers to the angels,
St. Dorothea and Apollonia. - (ff. 118r-133r) Penitential psalms
and Litany of Saints. - (f. 133r-v) Prayers of St. Barbara and St.
John Evangelist. - (ff. 134r-162v) Office of the Dead. - (f.
162v-164v) Prayer to the Virgin Mary. - Empty: ff. 1r-v, 14r,
165r-v. Note:
Origin: According to BNM. Possibly made by Tertiaries of St.
Gertrudis in Hoorn.
Script: One female scribe (daughter of Gerijt Borwetzoen and
Pieternell; see obituary notes in the same hand below), writing
devotional texts in Dutch for personal use. Note the supplication
in "Een goet ghebet van sinte barbara (f. 133r-v): "God [...]
verleen mi dijnre deernen door hoor wairheit te verwinnen die
behendighe scalcheit des ouden viants".
Date: Obituary notes (f. 133v): "Int jaer ons heren Mcccc ende lxv
op sinte barbaren dach starf gerijt borwetzoen minen lieven vader /
Int jaer ons heren Mcccc ende lxix daechs na alre zielen dach starf
pieternell gerijt borwet zoen mijn lieve moeder / Int jaer ons
heren Mcccc ende lxiiii starf gelijs gerijt zoen mijn lieve
broeder. bidt voor hoor alre zielen". The first note (dated 1465)
is written in the same dark ink as the preceding prayers, the two
following notes (1469 and 1464) in lighter ink and must have been
added later. Therefore the manuscript was probably created between
1465 and 1469.
Illustration: Full-page miniature of the Annunciation (f. 14v).
Collation: In quarto.
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Leather (brown,
blind-tooled) over wooden boards with bevelled edges. Decorated
with panel stamps with the mystic lamb. Two clasp fastenings
(closing back to front, full-metal). Painted edges (red). -
Bookblock resewn, spine renewed.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (BNM 459):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1905411
Also described by MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD,
The Hague). Part of:
Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde - Bibliotheek Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
