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BOOK OF HOURS, in Dutch, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
BOOK OF HOURS, in Dutch, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Utrecht, c.1425] 124 x 90mm. 176 leaves, including 2 blanks + vellum binding fragment from a 14th-century Breviary: 1 8 , 2 5 (of 8, vi-viii cancelled blanks), 3-11 8 , 12 4 (of 6, v-vi cancelled blanks), 13-15 8 , 16 8 (of 9, i cancelled blank, probably added), 17 8 , 18 8 (of 9, i cancelled blank, probably added), 19-22 8 , 23 6 , 24 1 (of 2, ii cancelled blank), apparently COMPLETE, prickings visible in some margins, 13 lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand between two verticals and 14 horizontals ruled in plummet, justification: 77 x 49mm, versal initials touched red, rubrics in red, one-line initials on blue with red penwork, one- and two-line initials in burnished gold with elaborate red or black flourishing, three-line initials of burnished gold on blue or red grounds with infills of the contrasting colour, each with one or two bar-borders and accompanying sprays of disks and leaves in burnished gold and green, four large initials with foliate infills on burnished gold grounds with full-page borders of leaf sprays in burnished gold, red, pink and blue on hairline tendrils, NINE HISTORIATED INITIALS WITH SIMILAR FULL-PAGE BORDERS with single and double bar-borders (slight offsetting opposite the cancelled blanks at four openings suggests that prints were pasted on the blanks, slight cropping touching borders, occasional smudges or light stains, face of angel on f.14 smudged, initial on f.90 slightly rubbed, some rubbing to burnished gold). 17th-century vellum over pasteboard (worn, ties lacking). PROVENANCE: The saints in red in the Calendar and the style of illumination and flourishing all place the origin of this Hours in Utrecht. St Jeroen, patron saint of Noordwijk and venerated throughout the county of Holland has been added to the calendar (17 August), perhaps for the van der Laen family of Leiden. Diewer or Dieber van der Laen, daughter of Gerrit van der Laen (c.1480-1568), who moved from Haarlem to Leiden, and wife of Hendrik van Assendelft, the son of Barthout van Assendelft, secretary to the Court of Holland, and Alijt de Vriese Nicolaesdr. He died on 10 February 1573 and was buried in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. His widow returned to Leiden, where she died 19 November 1600 and was buried in St Peter's Church. On f.176, Diewer recorded her husband's death and on f.175v is a record of her death: 'ons moeder Joffrou[w] diwer van der lan veduwe van Jo[n]cker hendrick van Assendelft is in den heere gerust op den negentienden novenbris tuschen negent ende achten Smorgens Anno sestien hondert ende leijt begraven inde piters kerck achter het hoge oulter tot Leiden alwaer wij het graf gekoch hebbe. God geef de zijl rust ende vrede'. They apparently had children, who inherited the book, since these accounts are labeled 'our father' and 'our mother'. Further notes on f.176v record the deaths of Diewer's brother and sister: Joffrou Anna van der Lan weduwe van Joncster Johan van basserode is inder heer gerijst opdy xxix mart Anno sestien hondeet ende ?vijf [in a different hand: 1605] smiddag het half elffs Jonckheer hendrick van der lan is in der heer geriist opdy ix may Anno xvi c acht ?ontrent negen vrey inder hage ende is begraven tot Voorhout in de capel van der van der Lan Anna van der Laen married Johan van Bassenrode, drossaert van Montfoort, son of Willem van Bassenrode and Margriete van Montfoort, who had died by May 1601, when his inheritance was settled and Hendrik represented his sister's interests. The inscription gives her death date as 29 March 1605. Her heir, Hendrik van der Laen, b.1537/8 in Leiden, recognized as noble in 1566, married Maria Suys and died in The Hague on 9 May 1608. He was buried in the Van der Laen chapel at Voorhout. H. F. von Aussem, no 40: his signature in an 18th-century hand on pastedown. If his numbering related only to manuscripts he had a significant collection, of which the following have been identified: a De