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Book of Hours in Dutch, decorated manuscript on vellum [Netherlands (probably Utrecht), c.1460-70]
Description
- Vellum
Provenance
(1) Written in the Netherlands, most probably in Utrecht, with the local saints, Pontianus (14 January), Servatius (13 May), Odulf (12 June), Lebuin (25 June) Wilibrort (7 November) in red; most probably for “Margriet pieters dochter”, whose ex libris appears on the last endleaf.
(2) Joseph Beard of Alderley: his nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (as in catalogue of Franks bequest, 1903, no.1922). He also owned a late fourteenth-century French Book of Hours from the collection of Philip Bliss, sold in our rooms, 8 November 1858, lot 383, and now in Houston University Library.
Catalogue Note
The volume comprises: a Calendar (fol.1r); the Short Hours of the Cross (fol.13r); the Office of the Virgin (fol.14r); the Greater Hours of the Cross (fol.63r); the Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, “ewighe wijtheit” (fol.91r); the Hours of the Holy Spirit (fol.115r); the Penitential Psalms (fol.142r) followed by a Litany; and the Office of the Dead (fol.163r).