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  • Translator: Grote, Geert, 1340-1384 ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Modern title: Calendar. Folio range: 1r-12v ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Modern title: Hours of the Virgin. Scribal title: Hier begint die getijde van onser lieuer vrouwen. Die metten.. Incipit: Here du sulte op doen mijn lippen Ende mijn mont sal voirtcundighen dijn lof.. Explicit: sij gebenedijt in der ewicheit. Amen.. Folio range: 13v-70r ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Modern title: Short Hours of the Cross. Scribal title: Hier begint die corte getijde vanden heiligen cruce. metten.. Incipit: Here du sulste mine lippen op doen.. Explicit: Alle gelouige sielen moeten rusten in vreden. Amen.. Folio range: 70v-80v ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Modern title: Seven Penitential Psalms. Scribal title: Hier beghinnet die seuen psalme van penitencien.. Incipit: Here in dijnre verbolgentheiten straffe mi niet. Explicit: Glorie si den vader.. Folio range: 80v-93v ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Modern title: Litany. Scribal title: Die letanien. Incipit: Here ontferme di onser. Explicit: ouermits dijnre bescermenissen. Bi cristum onsen here. amen.. Folio range: 93v-101v ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Modern title: Office of the Dead. Scribal title: Hier begint die vigelie van drie lessen voir die doden. Die vesper. antiphon.. Incipit: Ic sal behagen. psalm. Ic hebbe gemynnet want die here sal verhoren die stemme mijns gebedes.. Explicit: moeten rusten in vreden Amen.. Folio range: 102v-136r ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Modern title: Prayer for the sacrament. Scribal title: Alstu ten heiligen sacramente gaen wilste so lese dit gebet. Incipit: OOuerste priester ende warachtich bisscop here ihesu criste. Explicit: Tot deser ouervloyender glorien moet ons brengen die vader die sone die heilige geest Amen. Folio range: 137r-141r ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Modern title: Second prayer for the sacrament. Scribal title: Alstu dat heilige sacramente ontfangen hebste so lese voirt als hier staet. Incipit: O Here ihesu criste lof si dijnre onsprekeliker mynnentliker goeder tierenheit. Explicit: ende alle salige sielen dat leuen dijnre ewicheit. Amen.. Folio range: 141r-143v ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Modern title: Prayer to Jesus. Scribal title: Van onsen lieuen here ihesu cristo.. Incipit: O Here ihesu criste almachtige god voir die voeten dijnre hoocheit legge ic geuallen sundich mensche alle mijn begeren. Explicit: ende mit vrolicken tongen discantieren singende altoes alleluya. Amen.. Folio range: 143v-146v ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Modern title: Prayer to Mary. Scribal title: Van onser lieuer vrouwen. gebet.. Incipit: O Heilige ende alre salichste ontfermhertige maria moeder ons heren ihesu cristi ic bidde di. Explicit: leuet ende regniert een god ewelic sonder eynde. Amen.. Folio range: 146v-148v ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Scribal title: Van onsen eygen engel gebet.. Incipit: Ic bidde di engel goids wien ic beuolen bin. Explicit: ende mijn siele sonder anxt voir gode presenteerste. Amen.. Folio range: 148v-149v ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Scribal title: Van sinte mathijs apostel. Incipit: Ghi sult salich wesen als v die lude haten. Explicit: ende anxt alles quades mogen werden gevriet ouermits cristum onsen here Amen.. Folio range: 149v-150v ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Scribal title: Van sinte barbara maget. Incipit: O Heilige maget ende martelaerster barbara. Explicit: ontfangen moeten. ouermits cristum onsen here. Amen.. Folio range: 150v-151v ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Scribal title: Vanden heiligen vader sinte bernaert. Antiphon. Incipit: DIe heilige vader stont op vroe morgens ende sochte goede dingen. Explicit: ende gebeden totti altoes voir ons bidden. Ouermits cristum onsen here. Amen.. Folio range: 151v-152v ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Scribal title: Van allen sancten ende sanctinnen. van hemelrijc.. Incipit: O Heilige waerdige wituercoren vrieden ende vrientynnen cristi. Explicit: te starken den doden genade ende allen saligen sielen dat ewige leuen. Amen.. Folio range: 152v-154v ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Scribal title: Een suuerlic gebet van allen heiligen des ewigen leuens te lesen.. Incipit: O Ghebenedide name ons heren ihesu cristi. Explicit: ende groot bouen lof ende bouen mynne alre creaturen. Amen.. Folio range: 154v-158v ** Language: Dutch, Middle. Modern title: Lord's prayer, Ave Maria, Crede, and other prayers. Incipit: [V]Ader ons die biste inden hemel gheheylicht is dijn naem. Explicit: ouermids der ontfermherticheit gods rusten in vreden amen Explicit. Folio range: 159r-161r
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Time Period
  • Mid-15th century
Place of Origin
  • Netherlands
Description
  • A fifteenth-century Dutch Book of Hours in the translation of Geert Grote, with additional prayers in Dutch. Full-page miniatures depict the Annunciation (fol. 13v) and souls in the bosom of Abraham (fol. 102v). Badge sewn onto fol. 143. The final quire (fols. 159-162), though ruled to match the remainder, is written in a second hand and lacks decoration. Fol. 162 is a raised pastedown.
Call Number
  • BX2080 .D8
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
  • knc_058_001
Keywords
  • Christian
  • Illumination
  • Book of Hours
  • Miniature
  • Devotion
  • Pen-flourished initial
  • Netherlands
  • Border
Title
  • Dutch Book of Hours
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Codex. Support material: Parchment. Extent: ii + 162 + i. Collation: Q1 (12), 1 leaf tipped in, Q2-7 (8), Q8 (10: -10), Q9 (8: -7, a stub), Q10-12 (8), 1 leaf tipped in, Q13-16 (8), Q17 (8: -7, a stub) Q18 (10: -9, a stub) Q19 (8), Q20 (4). Foliation - Pagination: none. Bound dimensions (in mm): 96 x 130 x 37. Page dimensions (in mm): 90 x 123. Written area (in mm): 50 x 72. Script: Gothic. Script type: Quadrata. Layout: One column, ruled in purple for fifteen lines. Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 15. Decoration: Two full-page miniatures. Large illuminated initials on blue and pink ground throughout. Illuminated bar borders accented with pink, with spray work in gold, blue, pink, and green. One-line initials alternating blue and gold, flourished in red and purple. Rubrication. Binding: Modern black morocco.
Language
  • Dutch, Middle
Alternate Identifier
  • 73-21 (Accession number)
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • knc_058_001
Associated Names
  • Grote, Geert, 1340-1384 (Translator)
Date Created
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • Knox College Seymour Library Special Collections. Galesburg, IL.
Provenance
  • Item donated to Knox College by Harriet Robbins Moses (1888-1973) of Salina, KS as part of a bequest through her estate in 1973. Moses graduated from Knox College in 1912. Ownership inscription for a "[G...] Matthieu" on the verso of flyleaf one is dated to 1879. The recto of flyleaf 2 bears the inscription "ce Livre appartient a Catherine Howard."

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