Book of hours : use of Utrecht : in Flemish

Item Information

Title:
Book of hours : use of Utrecht : in Flemish
Description:
Book of hours translated by Geert Grote.
Translator:
Groote, Gerard, 1340-1384
Date:
[ca. 1490]
Format:
Books
Manuscripts
Genre:
devotional calendars
Gothic scripts
Books of hours
Inscriptions
Embossed stamps
Manuscripts, Dutch--Netherlands
Manuscripts, Medieval--Netherlands
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Netherlands > Utrecht (province) > Utrecht
Extent:
158 leaves : parchment ; 151 x 110 (92 x 67) mm bound to 17 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/pg15fk83z
Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
[Flanders]
Language:
Dutch
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-9v: calendar, use of Utrecht.
2. fol. 10r/v: O jesus shemels ware vrucht.../...tot v daer eeuwigh vreughdt ziin sal Amen. (hymn in Flemish, added during the 16th century).
3. fol. 11-38: Hours of the Virgin (van Wijk, pp. 36-70).
4. fol. 38v-54v: Hours of Eternal Wisdom (van Wijk, pp. 92-112).
5. fol. 55-71v: Hours of the Holy Cross (van Wijk, pp. 113-138).
6. fol. 72-84v: Hours of the Holy Spirit (van Wijk, pp. 71-86).
7. fol. 85-102v: Hours of All Saints.
8. fol. 103-116v: Penitential Psalms and Litany (van Wijk, pp. 139-154).
9. fol. 116v-117: (Indulgences and other prayers) Item sixtus die vierde heest ghegeven alle die in penitencie staen ... (Meertens VI:94, no. 7a)
10. fol. 117-118: (indulgences and other prayers) Hier beghint een ghebet dat ghemaect is in die eren ons heren aenschyn ende iohannes die xxii paeus ... (Meertens VI:34, no. 3)
11. fol. 118-119: (indulgences and other prayers) Item so wie dit ghebet leset die heest van s' pieter iiic iaer aflaets ende van xxx paeuse ... (Meertens VI:35, no. 6)
12. fol. 119-120: (indulgences and other prayers) Item een suuerlic ende deuoet ghebet van maria (Meertens VI:74, no. 25)
13. fol. 120: (indulgences and other prayers) Item men vint bescreven alsoe wie dit na ghebet leset voir dat crucifix of gehoechenisse des lidens christi (Meertens VI:94, no. 7b)
14. fol. 120v: 16th-century additions.
15. fol. 121-147: Office of the Dead.
16. fol. 147-148: (additional prayers) Item goet ghebet alsmen ten heilighe sacrament ... (Meertens VI:41, no. 12d) (not "VI, no. 15 sub 10" as in Boot)
17. fol. 148v-149: (additional prayers) Alsmen dat heilighe sacrament ontfanghen hebben ... (Meertens VI:94, no. 10c)
18. fol. 149: (additional prayers) Item die dit ghebet leset alsmen dat heilighe sacrament ... (Meertens VI:54, no. 11a)
19. fol. 149-150: (additional prayers) [Reading from the Gospel of John] Ite[m] soe wie sinte ian s' ewangeli leset of hoert lesen ende alsmen seit Et verbum caro factum est syn knyen bughet of ynnichlic mitten hoetie neighet die verdient van paeus Clemens die vyfte een iaer aflaets ende xl daghen./ In den beghinne was dat woert.../...vergheven al onse sonen Amen.
20. fol. 150-151: (additional prayers) Een goet ghebet vor die name ihesu ... (Meertens VI:75, no. 7)
21. fol. 151-151v: (additional prayers) Een ghebet tot onsen here ihesum/ O Scepper alre creaturen.../... comen moet. Overmits onser heren ihesum christum Amen. (not in Meertens)
22. fol. 152-153: (additional prayers) Item die dese ix ghebedekyn leset al knielende voer die wapenen ... (Meertens VI:187-8, no. 42)
23. fol. 153-153v: (suffrage) Blessed Virgin mary.
24. fol. 153v-154: (suffrage) Guardian Angel (Meertens VI, no. 3 sub 12)
25. fol. 154-154v: (suffrage) St. Peter (Meertens VI, no. 21 sub 19a)
26. fol. 155v: (suffrage) St. Andrew (Meertens VI, no. 2ter sub 5b)
27. fol. 155v-156: (suffrage) St. Erasmus (Meertens VI, no. 13 sub 18c)
28. fol. 156v: (suffrage) St. Appollonia (Meertens VI, no. 21 sub 20a)
29. fol. 157-157v: (suffrage) St. Barbara (Meertens VI, no. 21 sub 20a)
30. fol. 157v: (suffrage) St. Katherine (Meertens VI, no. 21 sub 20c)
31. fol. 158: (suffrage) St. Sebastian.
32. fol. 158v: (suffrage) St. Georgius.
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 for the use of Utrecht, in the late fifteenth century.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: The calendar is typical of Utrecht, including standard Utrecht saints such as Phileas (4 Feb.), Swidbertus (1 March), Pancratius (12 May), Wironis (8 May), Odulphus (12 June), Lebuinus and Adelbertus (25 June) and Radbodus (29 November), among many others.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Bought by BPL (before 1928) with the income of the Scholfield bequests; BPL embossed stamp on fol. 1 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 42802).
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 924
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: ii f Scolastica ionfer.
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (modern paper) +158 + ii (modern paper) ; 1¹⁰ 2-14⁸ 15⁶ 16-19⁸ 20⁶ ; modern pencil signatures in arabic numerals, lower left corner of first recto of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
Layout: 1 column, 21 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in blind.
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in brown ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 10-line "puzzle" initials in blue and red with red, blue and green filigree infill and full filigree border in red and green on fol. 11, 39, 55, 72, 85 and 103.
Binding: Modern alum-tawed goatskin over pasteboard, sewn on 3 double raised cords. Surviving original gilt edges.
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: C. Boot, "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Libraries in the State of Massachusetts," Archief- en bibliotheekwezen in Belgie 50 (1979): 361-366; M. Meertens, De godsvrucht in de Nederlanden (Antwerp, 1930-34); N. van Wijk, Het getijdenboek van Geert Grote (Leiden, 1940).
Notes (language):
In Flemish.
Identifier:
06_01_018654
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.33
MS G.408.85 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999091846327