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BOOK OF HOURS, use of Utrecht, in the Dutch translation of Geert Grote, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
BOOK OF HOURS, use of Utrecht, in the Dutch translation of Geert Grote, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [?Brabant, c.1460] 158 x 109mm. iii paper + 184 +iii paper leaves: 1 1 2 (of 10, i and ii inserted miniature leaves), 2-7 1 0 , 8 1 1 (of 10, ii inserted miniature leaf), 9-11 1 0 , 12 8 , 13 3 (of 4, i and ii cancelled blanks, v inserted miniature leaf), 14-19 1 0 ; tops of catchwords in lower margins of many final versos, 16 lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand between two verticals and 17 horizontals ruled in brown, rubrics in red, text capitals touched red, two-line initials alternately in burnished gold on pink and blue grounds patterned with white and in blue with pink flourishing, numerous two-line initials in burnished gold on pink and blue grounds patterned with white linked to a burnished gold bar to the side with partial borders of hairline sprays of burnished gold leaves linking flowers, fruit and acanthus predominantly in pink, blue and green, three with half-length angels, one three-line initial with a bar to two sides and similar partial border, 19 three- to six-line initials on burnished gold grounds with flower and foliage infills linked to bars to two or three sides with full borders of similar type, some with angels, birds and half-length figures, FOUR ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES IN FRAMES OF BURNISHED GOLD WITH FULL BORDERS FACING FOUR LARGE INITIALS OF SIMILAR TYPE WITH THREE-SIDED BARS AND FULL BORDERS (slight wear to some borders). 17th-century Dutch calf gilt, the covers with roll-tooled border, corner fleurons and central tooled arabesque (upper joint split at head and foot). PROVENANCE: The book, labelled on the spine II DEEL , is the second volume of a book of hours made in the southern Netherlands, possibly Brabant from the style of illumination. The first part, containing an Utrecht calendar and the Hours of the Nativity, is in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (inv. PL1955-114), where it was exhibited in 1877 as the gift of Baron M.J.P.D. van Harinxma thoe Slooten. The two volumes were together in the sale of Henry Gockinga, Bibliotheca Gockingana , 14 June 1773, Utrecht, lot XL, and reunited in the Fries Museum for the exhibition Tsjoch! in 2005-2006. Old catalogue number 4 on first paper leaf. CONTENT: Office of the Virgin, use of Utrecht in the Dutch translation of Geert Grote ff.2-73: prologue Her beghinen die devote getide van onser liver vrouwen die in duytsche sijn ghesettet van woerde tot woerden als hi naest coude... f.2., matins f.5, lauds f.18v, prime f.32v, terce f.39, sext f.44, none f.49v, vespers f.55, compline f.65; Seven Words of the Virgin to Christ on the Cross, O vlietende borne der ewigher wijsheit... , each followed by Ave Maria , f.73; Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.75-106: matins f.75, prime f.81, terce f.85, sext f.88v, none f.92v, vespers f.96, compline f.101v; indulgence of 100 days and other benefits, confirmed by a vision of the Virgin, from reciting the Obsecro te , which follows in Dutch O heilighe vrouwe Maria , ff.106v-109v; prayers, including O oetmoedighe afgront with Pater noster cues, the Eight Verses of St Bernard, ff.109v-112v; indulgenced prayer on the parts of Christ's body, Here jhesu christe ic gruet dijn vruchtende hoeft , with Pater noster cues, ff.112v-115v; Stabat mater in Dutch, ff.115v-118; prayers including one to be said at mass bringing as many days of indulgence as Christ had wounds, Ic bidde dy alre minlichste heer , the Gaude flore virginali in Dutch with attribution to Thomas of Canterbury, ff.118-123v; devout prayer to be said when wanting to take the Sacrament, O overste priester end warach bisschop , often attributed to St Ambrose, and other prayers associated with the Sacrament, ff.125-141; prayers to the Virgin, for the Nativity, to our Lord, on St John the Evangelist, ff.141-157; O intemerata in Dutch, ff.157-161v; prayers to Christ on the Cross, St Elizabeth, St Jerome, All Saints, All Souls, the Virgin, the Harrowing of Hell, Re