Caption: "A leaf from a Book of Hours in Dutch on vellum. Gothic textura quadrata script in dark brown ink, ruled in brown, written in a single column of 22 lines, with alternating 1-and 2-line versal initials of red and blue temperas, and a three-quarter border of elaborate red and blue penscroll work in the same two colors. During the late 14th century, Gerhard Groote, a Dutch cleric, translated the Book of Hours from Latin to Middle High Dutch. He and other reformers stressed the importance of personal devotion in the vernacular, and endorsed its practice. This late 15th century leaf shows that the tradition of devotion moderna (modern devotion) was still popular in Holland at this time."
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