Accession number
MS M.1031
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.1031).
Created
Haarlem, Netherlands, 1445-1460.
Binding
Dutch 15th-century brown calf over boards, blind-stamped with Christ the Savior on front and Lamb of God on back, within rectangular panels.
Credit line
Purchased through the Edwin H. Herzog Fund, 1981.
Description
293 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum. ill. ; 182 x 128 mm
Provenance
Original owners, a couple, portrayed on fol. 193v, their arms (azure, a chevron argent in point a swan argent; beaked gules and legged sable) on fol. 129v; gules a horse or talbot rampant argent, surcharged with an estoile gules on fol. 193v; gules, a horse or talbot counterrampant argent, surcharged with an estoile gules or on fol. 194; these two latter arms identified as of Assendelft; arms on fol. 129v unidentified; Nicolas Yemeniz; his sale, Paris, Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, May 22, 1867, lot 70; to Ambroise Firmin-Didot, his sale, Paris, vol. 4, June 12-17, 1882, lot 13; E. Délicourt; Count Greffielke; Louis de Strycker.
Notes
Book of hours for the use of Utrecht (calendar), in the Gerard Groote translation; written and illuminated in the northern Netherlands, probably Haarlem, ca. 1445-1460.
Decoration: 10 full-page miniatures (inserted), 14 historiated initials, full borders on pages with miniatures or historiated initials; Dutch Gothic style.
Artist: Master of the Haarlem Bible.
Decoration: 10 full-page miniatures (inserted), 14 historiated initials, full borders on pages with miniatures or historiated initials; Dutch Gothic style.
Artist: Master of the Haarlem Bible.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fol. 13r: Blank -- fols. 13v-47r: Hours of the Virgin -- fols. 47v-48v: Prayer, Stabat Mater -- fols. 48v-51V: Suffrages -- fol. 52r: Blank -- fols. 52v-74r: Hours of Eternal Wisdom -- fols. 74r-74v: Dicta of Saint Jerome and Saint Augustine -- fol. 75r: Blank -- fols. 75v-97r: Long Hours of the Cross -- fol. 98r: Blank -- fols. 98v-128v: Long Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fol. 129r: Blank -- fols. 129v-152v: Hours of All Saints -- fol. 153r: Blank -- fols. 153v-170v: Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fol. 170v: Dicta of various Saints -- fols. 171r-186v: Suffrages -- fol. 187r: Blank -- fols. 187v-188r: Suffrages -- fols. 188v-189r: Blank -- fols. 189v-190v: Suffrages -- fols. 191r-193r: Blank -- fols. 193v-254r: Hours of the Holy Sacrament -- fols. 254r-259v: Prayers and Meditation on Communion -- fols.259v-261r: Prayer, O intemerata -- fol. 261v: Sayings of saints Augustine and Bernard -- fol. 262r: Blank -- fols. 262v-293v: Office of the Dead.
Script
textura
Language
Dutch
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