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BOOK OF HOURS, use of Utrecht, in Dutch, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
BOOK OF HOURS, use of Utrecht, in Dutch, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Utrecht, c.1425]151 x 115 mm. 218 leaves: 1 6, 2 7(of 6 + vi, miniature singleton), 3-5 8, 6 7(of 8 lacking vii), 7 6, 8 8, 9 5(of 4 + v, miniature singleton), 10 9(of 8 + i, misbound leaf), 11 8, 12 9(of 8 + v, miniature singleton), 13 7(of 8, vii misbound as f.130), 14 8, 15 9(of 8 + iii, miniature singleton), 16 7(of 8, vii misbound as f.64), 17 8, 18 6(of 4 + i, miniature singleton, and ii, misbound leaf), 19 7(of 8 lacking i), 20-21 8, 22 4, 23 9(of 8 + ii, miniature singleton), 24 8, 25 6, 26-29 8, 30 2(i+ii), three catchwords in lower margins of versos, 15 lines written in brown ink in a gothic bookhand between two verticals and 16 horizontals ruled in brown, justification 82 x 57 mm, rubrics in red, text capitals touched red, one-line initials alternately in light blue flourished with red and in burnished gold flourished with blue, numerous two-line initials in burnished gold on blue and red grounds patterned with white and marginal extensions of short sprays of small green leaves, twelve large initials similarly executed with full bars of burnished gold and three-sided borders of small green leaves and trefoils in burnished gold, pink and blue on hairline tendrils, three very large initials in pink or blue on grounds of burnished gold with foliate or interlace infills surrounded by full borders of ivy leaves in burnished gold, pink and blue and smaller green leaves on hairline tendrils enclosing burnished gold bars to outer margin and below, ONE HISTORIATED INITIAL ON BURNISHED GOLD WITH A SIMILAR FULL BORDER, SIX FULL-PAGE MINIATURES WITH GROUNDS OF BURNISHED GOLD AND FULL BORDERS of sprays of burnished gold trefoils and green leaves (lacking leaves from the Office of the Dead, two leaves with large initials and borders and five miniature singletons, other leaves possibly lost in rebinding when some leaves and gatherings misbound, miniatures rubbed, the first severely, some wear to borders, staining to some margins). 17th or 18th-century vellum over pasteboard (upper joint detached from bookblock, with short split at head, some wear). PROVENANCE: 1. The book was made for use in the diocese of Utrecht; the saints in the calendar and litany perhaps indicate Utrecht itself, although Sts Honesta (11 October) and Candida (1 December) might point to the south. The border decoration is in the bonte stijl localised to Utrecht (A. Korteweg, Kriezels, aubergines en takkenbossen , 1992, pp.36-37, 40-41). 2. Births of members of the Willems family were recorded in the 16th century on ff.132v-133v. 3. 19th-century ownership inscriptions of E. Asbury, the antiquarian Alfred Zouch Palmer of Sonning, Berks, and Oswald Zouch Palmer. 4. Charles E. Roseman Jnr of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, bought from George Gregory of Bath in 1925 (de Ricci, Census , II, 1937, pp.1960-61). CONTENT: Calendar, ff.1-12; Office of the Virgin, use of Utrecht, ff.14-58, 65-72, 59-62: matins f.14, lauds f.26v, prime f.39v, terce (lacking opening leaf) f.44, sext f.47v, none f.51v, vespers ff.55v-58v and 65-70, compline ff.70-72 and 59-62; Sunday Hours of the Trinity, ff.73-84; Monday Hours of the Dead, ff.86-95; Tuesday Hours of the Holy Spirit, ff.130, 96-100v; Wednesday Hours of All Saints, ff.101-106v; Thursday Hours of the Holy Sacrament, ff.108-112; Friday Hours of the Cross, ff.113-119; Saturday Hours of the Virgin, ff.64, 120-122; prayers to the Virgin, ff.122-127; long Hours of the Holy Spirit, lacking opening leaf, ff.135-149, 131-132; ruled blanks with later birth records of the Willems family, ff.132v-134v; Suffrages to Sts John the Baptist, Peter, Paul, John the Evangelist, prayer attributed to St Augustine, to the Virgin, Sts Barbara, Katherine, Agnes, ff.150-160v; ruled blank f.161; Penitential Psalms, ff.163-178; Litany, fff.178-184; short Office of the Dead with three lessons, lacking some leaves before the final leaf of prayers, ff.185-218. Apart from a few inci