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ff. 1-166; [Devotions]: ff. 1v-13: Full calendar, one month across each opening; f. 13v, ruled, but blank; ff. 14-25v: [f. 14, blank], Short hours of the Holy Cross in the Dutch version of Geert Grote; ff. 26-55: [f. 26, blank], Devotions on the Passion for the canonical hours; ff. 55-62v: Prayers to the Cross, of the Seven Last Words, of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin; ff. 63-81v: [f. 63, blank], Mass of St. Gregory, prayers for the rosary; f. 80r-v, ruled, but blank; ff. 81-110v: Meditations for the rosary; ff. 111-121v: Suffrages of Jerome, one's guardian angel, Michael Archangel, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Cornelius, Martin, Anne, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Agnes, All Saints; ff. 120-121v, ruled, but blank; ff. 122-138v: [f. 122, blank] Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 139-144v: [f. 139, blank] Suffrages of Erasmus (with indulgence) and Christopher, prayer to Anne; ff. 144v-147v: Four prayers with indulgences; ff. 147v-154v: Prayers for Mass; ff. 155-164: Prayers for the week. ff. 164v-166v, blank. Devotional texts in Dutch written at the end of the fifteenth century in northwestern Netherlands, possibly for use in the diocese of Utrecht, as suggested by the saints in the calendar and litany. Span folios: ff. 1-166v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Collation beginning with the first contemporary flyleaf, 1-2⁸ 3⁸(+1, f. 14) 4⁸(+4, f. 26; + 6, f. 28; + 10, f. 32) 5⁸(+2, f. 35; +5, f. 38; +10, f. 43) 6⁸(+4, f. 48; +6, f. 50) 7⁸ 8⁸(+1, f. 63) 9⁸(+ a leaf in the second half) 10-11⁸ 12⁸(+6, f. 102) 13⁶(2 central ""bifolia"" composed of singletons) 14¹⁰ 15⁸(+1, f. 122; -9, cancelled by scribe) 16⁸ 17⁸(+2, f. 139; +5, f. 142; +11, f. 148) 18⁸ 19⁶ 20⁴. Evidence of quire signatures as letters of the alphabet in red ink in the lower margin of the first leaf recto, beginning with ""a"" on f. i (thus including the calendar); quire and leaf signatures in brown ink as letters and roman numerals, apparently through each entire gathering, i-viii, but excluding the added illuminated leaves. In quire 14, leaf signatures as arabic numerals. Ruled space, 90 x 59 mm; 19 long lines, ruled in ink with single bounding lines. Written in gothic book hands by 3 scribes: i, ff. 1-79v, 123-164; ii, ff. 81-111v (quires 10-13, except for occasional leaves in a more formal script: ff. 81r-v, 102r-v, 109r-v); iii, ff. 112-119v (quire 14). Decoration: Eighty-two miniatures by several artists corresponding generally to the divisions in scribal hands. With scribe i, 14 full page miniatures on inserted singletons, blank on the recto, often interrupting the text, and not part of the orginal plan of decoration. With scribe ii, the rosary, 55 (+ 1 miniature for the Jerome suffrage to fill out the quire) integral miniatures by a second main artist, above 3 to 5 lines of text. With scribe iii, 12 10-line miniatures by a third main artist for the suffrages in quire 14. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/15/2009. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound by Mercier for Robert Hoe (his monogram on front doublure) in brown mosaic morocco, elaborately tooled and inlaid with an overall pattern of flowers within quatrefoils in the style of Le Monnier; white parchment doublures, gilt tooled with cherub heads and stars; gauffered and gilt edges. HM 1140. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
ff. ii + iii + 166 + i + ii : parchment ; 113 x 168 mm.
Devotional literature--Early works to 1800 Illuminations (Painting) Netherlands 15th century. (aat) Coats of arms Netherlands 15th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
The owner portrait on f. 112 is of a woman. Birth and death notices of the Van Nuissenborch family of Dordrecht, from 1598 to 1609, on the front and back flyleaves; on f. ii recto-verso, 18 coats of arms, identified, and with tinctures labelled, of which the first is that of Nuyssenburg of Dordrecht (Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 299). Belonged to Robert Hoe; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2150 to G. D. Smith. Smith Cat. 1 (1911) s. n. (described on the back cover) to Henry E. Huntington in April 1912.
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