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Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, and other prayers, in Dutch, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Northern Netherlands, IJssel Region, c.1460s]
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Hours of the Eternal Wisdom
Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, and other prayers, in Dutch, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Northern Netherlands, IJssel Region, c.1460s]
A fragment of a Dutch Book of Hours with charming illumination and penwork decoration typical of the IJssel Region, perhaps the monastery of Agnietenberg.
129 x 93mm. i (paper) + 24 + i (paper) leaves, collation: 1-212, 20 lines, ruled space: 90 x 59mm, rubrics in red, initials alternately in red or blue throughout, 7 penwork initials with scrolling flourishing extending into margins, one incorporating a face, one large illuminated initial with floral border (textually complete, but a fragment of a Book of Hours, some cropping, small losses to the burnished gold of the illuminated initial). 19th-century stamped calf over pasteboards (lower board detached, scuffed).
Provenance:
Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller-Eliott-Drake, 1st Baronet (1785–1870), of Nutwell Court, Devon: his armorial bookplate on inside upper cover. In 1809 he served in the unsuccessful British Walcheren Expedition to capture the towns of Flushing (Vlissingen) and Antwerp: it was perhaps then that he came into possession of the present manuscript.
Contents:
Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, in the Dutch translation of Geert Groote, beginning 'Mine siele heuet di begheert inder nacht', ff.1-20: matins f.1v, lauds f.7, prime f.9, terce f.10v, sext f.12, none f.13v. vespers f.15, compline f.18; Seven Requests of Our Lord ff.20v-22; Prayer to the Wound ff.22v-23v; prayer for the Mass ff.23v-24v, ending with a rubric for the Hours of the Holy Spirit.
Illumination:
The penwork decoration and the illuminated initial are characteristic of IJssel illumination, where the palette is limited to red flourishing with blue initials, accented with green; purple flourishing with red initials; and brown with gold initials. Typical too are the beaded borders: parallels can be found in manuscripts associated with the monastery of Agnietenberg, the Augustinian house outside Zwolle (see, for example, a New Testament at the Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 75 E 10). On the decoration of manuscripts in this region, see A. Korteweg, Kriezels, aubergines en takkenbossen, 1992, pp.116-129, esp. p.128).
The illuminated initial is on f.1v.
Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, and other prayers, in Dutch, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Northern Netherlands, IJssel Region, c.1460s]
A fragment of a Dutch Book of Hours with charming illumination and penwork decoration typical of the IJssel Region, perhaps the monastery of Agnietenberg.
129 x 93mm. i (paper) + 24 + i (paper) leaves, collation: 1-212, 20 lines, ruled space: 90 x 59mm, rubrics in red, initials alternately in red or blue throughout, 7 penwork initials with scrolling flourishing extending into margins, one incorporating a face, one large illuminated initial with floral border (textually complete, but a fragment of a Book of Hours, some cropping, small losses to the burnished gold of the illuminated initial). 19th-century stamped calf over pasteboards (lower board detached, scuffed).
Provenance:
Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller-Eliott-Drake, 1st Baronet (1785–1870), of Nutwell Court, Devon: his armorial bookplate on inside upper cover. In 1809 he served in the unsuccessful British Walcheren Expedition to capture the towns of Flushing (Vlissingen) and Antwerp: it was perhaps then that he came into possession of the present manuscript.
Contents:
Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, in the Dutch translation of Geert Groote, beginning 'Mine siele heuet di begheert inder nacht', ff.1-20: matins f.1v, lauds f.7, prime f.9, terce f.10v, sext f.12, none f.13v. vespers f.15, compline f.18; Seven Requests of Our Lord ff.20v-22; Prayer to the Wound ff.22v-23v; prayer for the Mass ff.23v-24v, ending with a rubric for the Hours of the Holy Spirit.
Illumination:
The penwork decoration and the illuminated initial are characteristic of IJssel illumination, where the palette is limited to red flourishing with blue initials, accented with green; purple flourishing with red initials; and brown with gold initials. Typical too are the beaded borders: parallels can be found in manuscripts associated with the monastery of Agnietenberg, the Augustinian house outside Zwolle (see, for example, a New Testament at the Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 75 E 10). On the decoration of manuscripts in this region, see A. Korteweg, Kriezels, aubergines en takkenbossen, 1992, pp.116-129, esp. p.128).
The illuminated initial is on f.1v.
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