Single leaf from a 15th-century book of hours : in Dutch

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Title:
Single leaf from a 15th-century book of hours : in Dutch
Title (uniform):
Book of hours
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Bruce P. Ferrini (Firm)
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Auctioneer:
Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc.
Former owner:
Alfen, Philip Joseph van, 1894-1969
Date:
[1450–1475]
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Dutch
Books of hours
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Netherlands > Utrecht (province) > Utrecht
Extent:
1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 180 x 127 (100 x 65) mm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076r294
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Place of origin:
[Delft?]
Language:
Dutch
Table of Contents:
[Recto] ...heilighe gheest.../[Verso]...Sainte Clete... (van Wijk pp. 145-146).
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Single leaf, containing a portion of the litanies from a 15th-century Delft book of hours.
Origin: Written in the Netherlands, probably Delft, in the third quarter of the 15th century. This leaf is quite similar in style and format to BPL MS q Med.86 and appears to be from the same workshop.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based in part on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Removed from a book of hours, formerly in the collection of Philip J. van Alfen (1894-1969). This manuscript was offered by Sotheby's, London, in 1972 (10 July, lot 72) and later by Christie's, London, in 1986 (25 June, lot 201) and was dismembered shortly after. Other leaves of the same manuscript are now in Atlanta, Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, RG 020-2; Cleveland Museum of Art, TR 1999.133; Notre Dame, Hesburgh Libraries, MSE/MR 09; and in a private collection in the Netherlands.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Acquired in 1992 from Bruce Ferrini.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand in black ink.
Layout: Bounding and writing lines in brown plummet, bounding lines full-length.
Decoration: In the outer margin of the recto, a bird with a banderole reading "Si sellen mit mi wa[n]de/ren in witten clederen want siis w[er]dich siin"; in the outer margin of the verso, a bird with a banderole reading "Dat seker h[er]t is altoes blide."
Binding: Tipped into a heavy matte and housed in an oversize folder.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: N. van Wijk, Het getijdenboek van Geert Grote (Leiden, 1940).
Identifier:
06_01_016302-06_01_016303
Call #:
RARE BKS MS pb Med. 235
Barcode:
39999087663942