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Book of Hours [Fragment] Public Deposited
- Contents
- Language: Dutch, Middle. Incipit: // ende doet of mijn boesheit God sceppe in mi een reyn hert. Explicit: Vander stemme mijns suchtens: anhinc mijn ghebeenten mijn ulei-//. Folio range: 19r-v
- Rights statement
- Time Period
- Second half of the 15th century
- Place of Origin
- Delft, Netherlands
- Description
- A leaf from a fifteenth-century Dutch Book of Hours, bearing Geert Grote's translation of Psalms 50 and 101. The decoration on this leaf suggests an origin in Delft, Netherlands in the convent of St. Agnes. Other leaves from the same manuscript are held by Loyola Marymount University and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
- Call Number
- ND2930 .M43, leaf 6
- Contributors
- Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
- Source Identifier
- iwu_010_001
- Keywords
- Book of Hours
- Devotion
- Christian
- Fragment
- Pen-flourished initial
- Netherlands
- Title
- Book of Hours [Fragment]
- Physical Description
- Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Foliation - Pagination: Modern foliation added in upper right-hand corner of recto in pencil, marked as fol. 19. Page dimensions (in mm): 180 x 125. Written area (in mm): 101 x 63. Line height (in mm): 4.1. Script: Gothic. Script type: Quadrata. Layout: One column ruled in brown for twenty-two lines. Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 22. Decoration: Two-line pen-flourished initial in blue with blue and red Delft penwork extending along three sides of the written area. One-line initials, alternating blue and red.
- Language
- Dutch, Middle
- Persistent URL
- Source Metadata Identifier
- Date Created
- 15th century
- Owning Institution
- Illinois Wesleyan University Ames Library Tate Archives & Special Collections. Bloomington, IL.
- Provenance
- A modern pencil inscription on the bottom left recto reads "GCH-15" and another on the bottom right reads "VM5405." This leaf is likely from a manuscript formerly owned by Philip van Alfen, sold at Sotheby’s in 1972 and Christie’s in 1986. This book was subsequently broken, and the leaves were sold separately. Leaf 6 of the IWU Lamson collection. This set of nine leaves was gifted to Illinois Wesleyan University by Alfred (Class of 1939) and Helen Lamson. The Lamson donation was orchestrated by IWU's President, Minor Myers, Jr., who negotiated with Harry L. Stern, antiquarian book seller, regarding the purchase of the leaves (circa 1990) which were then donated to the University. A similar set of leaves is held by Loyola Marymount University and known as the Bruce Ferrini Liturgical Manuscript Leaf Collection. Ferrini likely sold these leaves as well.
- Bibliographic Citation
- Grote, Geert. Het Getijdenboek van Geert Grote. Edited by N. Van Wijk. Leiden: Brill Archive, 1940.
- Rudy, Kathryn M. Piety in Pieces. Open Book Publishers, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1g04zd3.9.
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