IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169777 accession number: MS 348 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i modern paper flyleaf + ii modern parchment flyleaves + 204 fols. + ii modern parchment flyleaves + i modern paper flyleaf , 170 x 120 (90 x 62) mm, 18 long lines, ruled in black ink, numerous leaves lost. BINDING: Red goatskin over wooden boards, by Annie Winther, Fitzwilliam Museum, 1991; earlier, seventeenth-century binding of blind-tooled calf over pasteboards preserved with manuscripts. CONTENTS: fol. 1r Circular diagram for finding the Sunday letter, dated 1442 fols. 2r – 13r Calendar; fols. 14r – 58v Hours of the Virgin (imperfect); fols. 59r – 76v Penitential Psalms and Litany; fols. 77r – 80r Prayer beginning imperfectly …hande ende een onbeulecte; fols. 80r – 82r Prayer Dit selmen lesen alsmen fol. 82r Beatitude ‘Blessed are the merciful’ (in Dutch); fol. 82r Dutch proverb Denc goet sprec goet doet goet so gheschiet u goet; fols. 83r – 120r Hours of the Cross (begin imperfectly), with prayers to the Virgin after the last collect for each hour; fols. 121r – 156r Hours of the Holy Spirit (imperfect); fols. 157r – 204r Office of the Dead. DECORATION: Four historiated initials in blue with white geometric and floral ornament on gold grounds with partial gold, blue and pink bar borders, and full acanthus and spraywork borders with human half-figures, angels, animals and birds: fol. 14r Hours of the Virgin, Matins, [H, 9 ll.] Virgin and Child standing on crescent moon; fol. 59r Penitential Psalms, [H, 9 ll.] St Veronica holding the Vernicle; fol. 121r Hours of the Holy Spirit, [H, 9 ll.] Trinity: half-length figures of Father and Son showing his wounds, surrounded by rays with dove between them; fol. 157r Office of the Dead, [M, 9 ll.] Souls in Abraham’s Bosom. ORNAMENTATION: Blue or pink initials [5 ll.] with white floral ornament and foliate or zoomorphic infill on gold grounds, and one-sided gold, blue and pink bar borders extending into acanthus and spraywork bands in upper and lower margins; alternate blue and red penwork initials [1 – 2 ll.]; capitals highlighted in red. title: book of hours NOTES ----- type: history note value: bookplate with royal arms of France as used by Louis XIII and Louis XIV inside upper cover; abbot associated with the house of Thurn de Gestettenburg inscribed Sub Abbate Geroldo IIdo (armorial bookplate on recto of paper flyleaf at front); probably Rev. Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1821 – 1880) (armorial bookplate of E. Walcott on verso of paper flyleaf at front); James Stewart Henderson (d.1933); his bequest, 1933. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169777 PEOPLE ------------------- Henderson, James Stewart Walcott, Mackenzie Edward Charles, Rev. Sub Abbate Geroldo IIdo Thurn de Gestettenburg, house of TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1460 - 1480 creation date earliest: 1460 creation date latest: 1480 culture: 15th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Grote, Geert CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. Vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria; Vol. II: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands ---