Book of hours : undetermined use : in Flemish

Item Information

Title:
Book of hours : undetermined use : in Flemish
Title (uniform):
Book of hours
Creator:
Catholic Church
Contributor:
Groote, Gerard, 1340-1384
Auctioneer:
Helmut Tenner (Firm)
Auctioneer:
Dr. Ernst Hauswedell (Firm)
Auctioneer:
Internationaal Antiquariaat (Menno Hertzberger & Co.)
Date:
[1433–1466]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Dutch--Flanders
Manuscripts, Medieval--Flanders
Manuscript waste
Books of hours
devotional calendars
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Flanders (former primary political entity)
Extent:
185 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 141 x 108 (90 x 68) mm bound to 15 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/028768912
Terms of Use:
No Copyright - United States icon No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Flanders]
Language:
Dutch
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-12v: calendar (use of Utrecht)
2. fol. 13: blank.
3. fol. 13v: full-page miniature, the Virgin and Child.
4. fol. 14-21v: Matins (Hours of the Virgin, van Wijk, pp. 36-70)
5. fol. 21v-28v: Lauds (Hours of the Virgin, van Wijk, pp. 36-70)
6. fol. 28v-32: Prime (Hours of the Virgin, van Wijk, pp. 36-70)
7. fol. 32-34: Terce (Hours of the Virgin, van Wijk, pp. 36-70)
8. fol. 34-36v: Sext (Hours of the Virgin, van Wijk, pp. 36-70)
9. fol. 36v-39: Nones (Hours of the Virgin, van Wijk, pp. 36-70)
10. fol. 39-44: Vespers (Hours of the Virgin, van Wijk, pp. 36-70)
11. fol. 44-47v: Compline (Hours of the Virgin, van Wijk, pp. 36-70)
12. fol. 48: blank.
13. fol. 48v: full-page miniature, the Trinity.
14. fol. 49-62v: Hours of the Holy Spirit (van Wijk, pp. 71-86; ends imperfectly at Van Wijk, p. 84 "sinne inghete"; should be followed by fol. 120-121v)
15. fol. 63: blank.
16. fol. 63v: full-page miniature, Judgement Day.
17. fol. 64-81v: Penitential Psalms and Litany (van Wijk, pp. 139-154; begins imperfectly at Geerte p. 139, lacking one leaf after fol. 63)
18. fol. 82: blank.
19. fol. 82v: full-page miniature, Harrowing of Hell.
20. fol. 83-118: Office of the Dead (van Wijk, pp. 155-194)
21. fol. 118v: blank.
22. fol. 119: blank.
23. fol. 119v: full-page miniature, Mass of St. Gregory (out of place, should face fol. 170)
24. fol. 120-121v: Conclusion of Hours of the Holy Spirit (should follow fol. 62)
25. fol. 122: blank.
26. fol. 122v: full-page miniature, God holding the world.
27. fol. 123-141v: Hours of Eternal Wisdom (van Wijk, pp. 92-112)
28. fol. 142: blank.
29. fol. 142v: full-page miniature, Christ with the Instruments of the Passion.
30. fol. 143-163v: Long Hours of the Cross (van Wijk, pp. 113-138)
31. fol. 164-169: Short Hours of the Cross.
32. fol. 169v: blank.
33. fol. 170-173v: Mass of St. Gregory and indulgences (should follow fol. 119v)
34. fol. 174: blank.
35. fol. 174v: full-page miniature, St. Anne with the Virgin and Child.
36. fol. 175-176: (Prayers to St. Anne, not in Grote) Een ghebet van Sunte Anna marien moeder./ GOd gruet v hillighe moeder der moeder onses heren.../...O hillighe Sunte Anna self derde com mij te help.
37. fol. 176-181: (Prayers to St. Anne, not in Grote) Dit sint die ghenaden van Sunte Anna./ O Hillighe vrouwe Sunte Anna.../...ons die vader die soen ende die hillighe gheest. Amen.
38. fol. 181v: [collecte] God du die woldes.../... regneerst in ewicheit Amen.
39. fol. 181v-182: (Prayers to St. Anne, not in Grote) Een ghebet van Sunte marien moeder./ GHegruet sijstu erbare vrouwe SUnte Anna.../...moet ons gheboren worden een guet leuen ende een salich eynde. Amen.
40. fol. 182v-183: (Prayers to St. Anne, not in Grote) Die ghenaden van sunte Anna./ SOe wie dyn hillighe beelde mit deuotien ansiet.../...in date errste Aldus. In godes namen der hilligher driuoldicheit. Amen.
41. fol. 183v-185v: blank.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Flanders in the second third of the 15th century.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Tenner 6 April 1955, lot 8; Hauswedell 9 May 1957 (cat. 73), lot 2.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1957 from Internationaal Antiquariaat, Amsterdam.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 218
Notes (object):
The manuscript is misbound and the original order was as follows: fol. 1-62 (quires 1-8), fol. 120-169 (quires 16-21), fol. 63-119 (quires 9-15), fol. 170-185 (quires 22-23).
Collation: Parchment, fol. 185 ; 1-2⁶ 3⁸⁺¹ 4-6⁸ 7⁸⁺¹⁻¹ 8¹⁰⁻¹ 9⁸⁺¹ 10⁸ 11⁸⁺¹ 12⁸ 13⁸⁻¹ 14⁸ 15⁸⁺¹ 16⁸⁺¹ 17⁸ 18⁸⁺¹ 19-21⁸ 22⁸⁺¹ 23⁸⁻¹ ; the full-page miniatures at fol. 13, 48, 63, 82, 119, 122, 142 and 174 are tipped-in singletons. Single folios cancelled after fol. 52, 102, and 185. Lacking one folio after fol. 63, i.e. lacking the first text leaf of the Penitential Psalms ; modern pencil arabic foliation, upper outer corner of each page, post-dates misbinding.
Layout: 1 column, 19 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light brown ink or blind.
Script: Written in a gothic textualis libraria/formata in brown ink with red and blue rubrics.
Decoration (primary): Full-page miniatures as follows: The Virgin and Child (fol. 13v, Matins, Hours of the Virgin) -- The Trinity (fol. 48v, Hours of the Holy Spirit) -- Christ in Judgment (fol. 63v, Penitential Psalms) -- Harrowing of Hell (fol. 82v, Office of the Dead) -- Mass of Saint Gregory (fol. 119v) -- God the Father holding the world in his right hand, gesturing in blessing with his left (fol. 122v, Hours of Eternal Wisdom) -- Christ with the Instruments of the Passion (fol. 142v, Long Hours of the Cross) -- Anne holding the infant Christ on her lap, the Virgin seated next to her with a book on her lap, offering the infant an apple, angels at prayer visible in the side windows. fol. 174v (Prayers to St. Anne)
Decoration (secondary): Three-line initials throughout in blue filled with green and red with green and red filigree into margins; one- to two-line versal initials throughout in red and blue; four-line gold initials on salmon filled with blue or vice versa, with white filigree highlighting, at the incipit of each hour and the first lection of each Matins, with bars in gold in outer and lower margin with a few sprays; 13-line initials in blue with white filigree highlighting on gold with acanthus and floriate infill with full floriate and acanthus border at the beginning of each office (fol. 14, 48, 83, 123, 143, 164, 170, 175); with the exception of that on fol. 164, these pages originally faced one of eight full-page miniatures.
Binding: Medieval choirbook leaf over modern pasteboard. The leaf is taken from a 15th-century gradual or antiphonal, 4 staves, Gregorian square notation on a four-line red staff, preserving the responsory "Desiderium animae eius" for the commons of one martyr; tawed leather ties, blank vellum pastedowns.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: N. van Wijk, Het getijdenboek van Geert Grote (Leiden, 1940); C. Boot, "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Libraries in the State of Massachusetts," Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in Belgie 50 (1979): 353-355, with additional textual details; Nancy Netzer, ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), no. 46.
Notes (language):
In Flemish.
Identifier:
06_01_018704
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.159
MS 1584 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090789056