Book of Hours
Author: Grote, Geert
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i modern paper flyleaf + ii modern parchment flyleaves + 204 fols. + ii modern parchment flyleaves + i modern paper flyleaf , 170 x 120 (90 x 62) mm, 18 long lines, ruled in black ink, numerous leaves lost.
BINDING: Red goatskin over wooden boards, by Annie Winther, Fitzwilliam Museum, 1991; earlier, seventeenth-century binding of blind-tooled calf over pasteboards preserved with manuscripts.
CONTENTS: fol. 1r Circular diagram for finding the Sunday letter, dated 1442
fols. 2r – 13r Calendar; fols. 14r – 58v Hours of the Virgin (imperfect); fols. 59r – 76v Penitential Psalms and Litany; fols. 77r – 80r Prayer beginning imperfectly …hande ende een onbeulecte; fols. 80r – 82r Prayer Dit selmen lesen alsmen
fol. 82r Beatitude ‘Blessed are the merciful’ (in Dutch); fol. 82r Dutch proverb Denc goet sprec goet doet goet so gheschiet u goet; fols. 83r – 120r Hours of the Cross (begin imperfectly), with prayers to the Virgin after the last collect for each hour; fols. 121r – 156r Hours of the Holy Spirit (imperfect); fols. 157r – 204r Office of the Dead.
DECORATION: Four historiated initials in blue with white geometric and floral ornament on gold grounds with partial gold, blue and pink bar borders, and full acanthus and spraywork borders with human half-figures, angels, animals and birds: fol. 14r Hours of the Virgin, Matins, [H, 9 ll.] Virgin and Child standing on crescent moon; fol. 59r Penitential Psalms, [H, 9 ll.] St Veronica holding the Vernicle; fol. 121r Hours of the Holy Spirit, [H, 9 ll.] Trinity: half-length figures of Father and Son showing his wounds, surrounded by rays with dove between them; fol. 157r Office of the Dead, [M, 9 ll.] Souls in Abraham’s Bosom.
ORNAMENTATION: Blue or pink initials [5 ll.] with white floral ornament and foliate or zoomorphic infill on gold grounds, and one-sided gold, blue and pink bar borders extending into acanthus and spraywork bands in upper and lower margins; alternate blue and red penwork initials [1 – 2 ll.]; capitals highlighted in red.
History note: Bookplate with royal arms of France as used by Louis XIII and Louis XIV inside upper cover; abbot associated with the house of Thurn de Gestettenburg inscribed Sub Abbate Geroldo IIdo (armorial bookplate on recto of paper flyleaf at front); probably Rev. Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1821 – 1880) (armorial bookplate of E. Walcott on verso of paper flyleaf at front); James Stewart Henderson (d.1933); his bequest, 1933.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Henderson, James Stewart
15th Century#
Circa
1460
CE
-
Circa
1480
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Page
Height 170 mm
Width 120 mm
Text
Height 90 mm
Width 62 mm
Accession number: MS 348
Primary reference Number: 169777
Project ID: 110
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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