Descriptive Information

Title

Book of hours : use of Geert Grote, [ca. 1500].

Call Number

Garrett MS. 59

Identifier

ark:/88435/dckh04f289t

Language

Dutch

Date Created

1500

Extent

1 v. (192 leaves) : parchment, ill.

Provenance

Eleanor Daça, 16th century: f. 1r, inscription, "Amor Eleonor Daça". Barbara Dassa, twice named on f. 2, with mottoes, "Par mare e par trerra," "patrona mia ossez mia con il suo seruitore," and "amor e amare." B. van Ursel: f. 2r, inscription, date of 1567, and motto, Fortune le veult. David H[enriquez] de Castro Mz.: f. 1r, his signature; his bookplate on front cover. His sale (Amsterdam, 26 April 1899, lot no. 544). Bernard Quaritch, Catalogue, 190 (1899), no. 7; Catalogue, 211 (1902), no. 171. Penciled number, 54, on f. lr. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), Class of 1897, of Baltimore, Maryland, with his bookplate on back cover,

Source Acquisition

Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

References

De Ricci, v. 1, p. 874 (no. 59)

Green, p. 187 (no. 22 [f. 76v])

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Decoration: Line-endings of rectangles of red grounds with gold filigree in Litany. 1-line initials with filigree in gold on red grounds for versals. 2-line initials with filigree in gold on red grounds for psalms, hymns, lessons, chapters, canticles, collects in Hours and Office of the Dead, and Prayers. 3-line initials with filigree in gold on red grounds for KLs of Calendar, and Prayers (rarely 4-line). 8-line leafy initials, either in gray-to-white or in gold, on blue or rose-pink or yellow grounds, surrounded by full borders decorated with flora and fauna, for Matins of the Short Hours of the Cross and of the Short Hours of the Holy Spirit, Matins of the Hours of the Virgin, Penitential Psalm 6, and Vespers Psalm of the Office of the Dead (7-line). 5-line historiated initial for the Name of Jesus. 29 miniatures of 4 to 8 lines, often with outer borders decorated with flora and fauna, for Suffrages and three Prayers on ff. 130r, 135r, and 138r. 7 miniatures of 7 lines, with partial borders (absent in outer margins) decorated with flora and fauna, for canonical hours of Lauds through Compline for the Hours of the Virgin. 5 full-page, arched miniatures, surrounded by full borders decorated with flora and fauna, facing Matins of the Short Hours of the Cross and of the Short Hours of the Holy Spirit, Matins of the Hours of the Virgin, Psalm 6 of the Penitential Psalms, and Vespers Psalm of the Office of the Dead. Colors of royal blue, pale blue, rose, pink, red, mauve, gray, tawny yellow, green, and pale green.

Layout: Parchment; single column of 20 lines, ruled 7 mm.; 200 x 135 (115 x 70) mm.

Binding Note

18th-century, probably Netherlandish, dark red morocco, gilt-tooled with continuous double semi-circles along edges and with floral ornament on the spine; all edges gilt.

Discovery Information

Subject

Books of hours—Belgium—Brabant

Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton

Manuscripts, French—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

390

Institutional Information

Collection

Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fb704e1a-da26-4812-a34a-d5fbb723ea24/manifest

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