[Book of hours].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Groote, Gerard, 1340-1384, translator.
• Feiss, Paul Louis, 1875-1952, former owner.
• Laurie, James, former owner.

Language:

• Dutch
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Brantzum family--Genealogy.
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish--Specimens.
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish.

Genre:

• books of hours
• devotional calendars
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• illuminations (paintings)
• Manuscripts, Dutch -- 15th century.
• Manuscripts, Medieval.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.
• Specimens.
• Family histories.

Penn Provenance:

• Formerly owned by James Laurie; Paul-Louis Feiss (bookplates, inside upper cover).
• Sold at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, 15 Dec. 1953 (catalog 1487), lot 390.
• Acquired through Lathrop C. Harper, 1956.

Physical Description:

158 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 158 x 107 (95 x 61) mm bound to 164 x 106 mm

Place of Publication:

[Netherlands], [14--]

Language Note:

Dutch.

Summary:

Flemish hours of the Virgin Mary, with calendar of Utrecht, translation of Geert Groote.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Foliation: Parchment, iii (paper) + 158 + i (parchment); [1-159]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
• Layout: Written in 20 long lines.
• Script: Written in a Gothic book hand with notes in a later hand on the last folio and the back endleaf.
• Decoration: Rubrics in red, alternating red and blue capitals, illuminated historiated initials with illuminated borders of Madonna and Child (f. 13r), Gregorian Man of Sorrows (f. 47r), Christ in the attitude of Benediction (f. 75r), Pentecost (f. 95r), The Last Judgment (f. 111r), and Hell's Mouth (f. 127r); one initial appears to be unfinished (f. 69r). Water damage to a number of illuminations and borders.
• Binding: Contemporary blind stamped goatskin over wooden boards, lower cover detached, upper cover nearly detached.
• Origin: Written in the northeast Netherlands (dialect), 15th century (Webber).
• Incipit: Hier begint onser wrouwen ghetide (f. 13r).
• Notes in a later hand (to 1684) on final 2 leaves comprise a family history of the Brantzum family of Friesland. A transcription of this chronicle of the Brantzum family and corrections to the description of the manuscript by Philip E. Webber have been made by Lydia Wierda and are in the library's file.

Cited in:

• Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 48 (Ms. Flemish 1).
• Full description by Webber, Philip E. "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries," in Archives et bibliothèques de Belgique 47, no. 3-4 (1976), pp. 477-479. A copy is in the library's file.

Publications about:

Daly, Charlotte Sharpe, "A Netherlandish Manuscript Page at Florida State," Athanor V (Florida State University) 1986, pp. 11-17, includes a reproduction of one leaf from Ms. Codex 738. A copy is in the library's file.

Cited as:

Book of Hours (Ms. Codex 738). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

155985547

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