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Book of hours : use of Utrecht : in Dutch].
 
Property / title as recorded: Book of hours : use of Utrecht : in Dutch]. / rank
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Catholic Church
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Catholic Church / rank
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Property / associated name as recorded: Catholic Church / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded
Masters of the Zwolle Bible
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Masters of the Zwolle Bible / rank
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Property / associated name as recorded: Masters of the Zwolle Bible / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded
Beresford Hope, A. J. B 1820-1887
 
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Property / associated name as recorded: Beresford Hope, A. J. B 1820-1887 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded
Nijhoff, Martinus, firm, booksellers, The Hague
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Nijhoff, Martinus, firm, booksellers, The Hague / rank
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Property / associated name as recorded: Nijhoff, Martinus, firm, booksellers, The Hague / qualifier
 
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Gold tooled bindings
 
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Manuscripts, Dutch--Netherlands
 
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Gothic scripts
 
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Morocco bindings
 
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Illuminations
 
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Devotional calendars
 
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Books of hours
 
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Netherlands
 
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
 
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Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
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dut
 
Property / language as recorded: dut / rank
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between 1475 and 1480
 
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Zwolle]
 
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Extent: 155 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 168 x 130 (91 x 68) mm
 
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parchment, ill.
 
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Property / note
Ms. codex.
 
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Property / note
In Dutch.
 
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Property / note
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and by James H. Marrow's entry in the 2016 Beyond words catalog (no. 127).
 
Property / note: Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and by James H. Marrow's entry in the 2016 Beyond words catalog (no. 127). / rank
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Property / note
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (ca. 18th-century paper) + 155 + ii (ca. 18th-century paper) ; 16 28 38+1 4-58 7-88 98+1 10-128 138−1 148+1 158 166 178−2 18-198 206. The three full-page miniatures at fol. 47, 67 and 110 are tipped-in singletons. Fol. 20, a text page, is also a singleton. Lacking one leaf before fol. 101 and the outermost bifolium of quire 17, i.e. one folio before fol. 128 and...
 
Property / note: Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (ca. 18th-century paper) + 155 + ii (ca. 18th-century paper) ; 16 28 38+1 4-58 7-88 98+1 10-128 138−1 148+1 158 166 178−2 18-198 206. The three full-page miniatures at fol. 47, 67 and 110 are tipped-in singletons. Fol. 20, a text page, is also a singleton. Lacking one leaf before fol. 101 and the outermost bifolium of quire 17, i.e. one folio before fol. 128 and... / rank
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Property / note
Layout: Single column, 19 lines; bounding and writing lines in light brown or maroon plummet; bounding lines extend to top and bottom edges.
 
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Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
 
Property / note: Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics. / rank
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Decoration: All attributed to the Masters of the Zwolle Bible. Five nine-line historiated initials in gold and colors with full acanthus border with marginal angels and animals, one at the beginning of each Office (lacking that for the Office of the Dead), and three full-page miniatures (possibly lacking one for the Office of the Dead): Virgin and Child (fol. 15, historiated initial) -- Agony...
 
Property / note: Decoration: All attributed to the Masters of the Zwolle Bible. Five nine-line historiated initials in gold and colors with full acanthus border with marginal angels and animals, one at the beginning of each Office (lacking that for the Office of the Dead), and three full-page miniatures (possibly lacking one for the Office of the Dead): Virgin and Child (fol. 15, historiated initial) -- Agony... / rank
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Property / note
Binding: Ca. 18th-century red morocco double panelled in gilt with elaborately-tooled borders and cornerpieces; spine compartments panelled and tooled in gilt. The endpapers are marbled followed by blank paper flyleaves without watermarks. All text block edges are gilt.
 
Property / note: Binding: Ca. 18th-century red morocco double panelled in gilt with elaborately-tooled borders and cornerpieces; spine compartments panelled and tooled in gilt. The endpapers are marbled followed by blank paper flyleaves without watermarks. All text block edges are gilt. / rank
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Property / note
Origin: Written in Zwolle, for the use of Utrecht, ca. 1475-80. According to Beyond words exhibition catalog (no. 127), "the book can be localized on stylistic grounds to Zwolle in the eastern Netherlands. The painter of the miniatures and their accompanying painted border decoration is one of the Masters of the Zwolle Bible." The Masters of the Zwolle Bible are named for the Bible...
 
Property / note: Origin: Written in Zwolle, for the use of Utrecht, ca. 1475-80. According to Beyond words exhibition catalog (no. 127), "the book can be localized on stylistic grounds to Zwolle in the eastern Netherlands. The painter of the miniatures and their accompanying painted border decoration is one of the Masters of the Zwolle Bible." The Masters of the Zwolle Bible are named for the Bible... / rank
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Property / note
Provenance: Early-modern number "607" in brown ink on fol. i verso; "27" in black ink on final flyleaf; 18th-century(?) label inside front cover with shelfmark in brown ink, "N. 12/ N.G.G." (perhaps "N. 9.9."); Beresford-Hope sale, Sotheby's London, 23 Mar. 1882, lot 23 (SDBM 56866). Pencil annotations and BPL acquisition note verso of front flyleaf.
 
Property / note: Provenance: Early-modern number "607" in brown ink on fol. i verso; "27" in black ink on final flyleaf; 18th-century(?) label inside front cover with shelfmark in brown ink, "N. 12/ N.G.G." (perhaps "N. 9.9."); Beresford-Hope sale, Sotheby's London, 23 Mar. 1882, lot 23 (SDBM 56866). Pencil annotations and BPL acquisition note verso of front flyleaf. / rank
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Property / note
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1957 from Nijhoff (SDBM 56867).
 
Property / note: Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1957 from Nijhoff (SDBM 56867). / rank
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Property / note
Call number: MS q Med.172.
 
Property / note: Call number: MS q Med.172. / rank
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Property / note
Former call numer: MS 1597.
 
Property / note: Former call numer: MS 1597. / rank
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Property / note
Bibliography: Edith Wright, "A Utrecht Book of Hours," BPL Quarterly (1960): 97-102; The golden age of manuscript painting (New York, 1990), ex. 248-249, example 86; Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 127.
 
Property / note: Bibliography: Edith Wright, "A Utrecht Book of Hours," BPL Quarterly (1960): 97-102; The golden age of manuscript painting (New York, 1990), ex. 248-249, example 86; Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 127. / rank
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28 November 2023
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Book of hours : use of Utrecht : in Dutch].
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Catholic Church
Property / associated name as recorded: Catholic Church / rank
 
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Property / associated name as recorded: Catholic Church / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Catholic Church / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded
 
Masters of the Zwolle Bible
Property / associated name as recorded: Masters of the Zwolle Bible / rank
 
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Property / associated name as recorded: Masters of the Zwolle Bible / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Masters of the Zwolle Bible / qualifier
 
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Beresford Hope, A. J. B 1820-1887
Property / associated name as recorded: Beresford Hope, A. J. B 1820-1887 / rank
 
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Property / associated name as recorded: Beresford Hope, A. J. B 1820-1887 / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Beresford Hope, A. J. B 1820-1887 / qualifier
 
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Nijhoff, Martinus, firm, booksellers, The Hague
Property / associated name as recorded: Nijhoff, Martinus, firm, booksellers, The Hague / rank
 
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Property / associated name as recorded: Nijhoff, Martinus, firm, booksellers, The Hague / qualifier
 
Property / associated name as recorded: Nijhoff, Martinus, firm, booksellers, The Hague / qualifier
 
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Manuscripts, Dutch--Netherlands
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Dutch--Netherlands / rank
 
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Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Dutch--Netherlands / qualifier
 
Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Dutch--Netherlands / qualifier
 
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Illuminations
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Gold tooled bindings
Property / genre as recorded: Gold tooled bindings / rank
 
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Morocco bindings
Property / genre as recorded: Morocco bindings / rank
 
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Property / genre as recorded: Morocco bindings / qualifier
 
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Devotional calendars
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Books of hours
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Property / genre as recorded: Books of hours / qualifier
 
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Gothic scripts
Property / genre as recorded: Gothic scripts / rank
 
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Netherlands
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Property / genre as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Netherlands / qualifier
 
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston / rank
 
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Property / subject as recorded: Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston / qualifier
 
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dut
Property / language as recorded: dut / rank
 
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between 1475 and 1480
Property / production date as recorded: between 1475 and 1480 / rank
 
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Zwolle]
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Extent: 155 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 168 x 130 (91 x 68) mm
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parchment, ill.
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Property / note
 
Ms. codex.
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In Dutch.
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Property / note
 
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and by James H. Marrow's entry in the 2016 Beyond words catalog (no. 127).
Property / note: Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and by James H. Marrow's entry in the 2016 Beyond words catalog (no. 127). / rank
 
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Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (ca. 18th-century paper) + 155 + ii (ca. 18th-century paper) ; 16 28 38+1 4-58 7-88 98+1 10-128 138−1 148+1 158 166 178−2 18-198 206. The three full-page miniatures at fol. 47, 67 and 110 are tipped-in singletons. Fol. 20, a text page, is also a singleton. Lacking one leaf before fol. 101 and the outermost bifolium of quire 17, i.e. one folio before fol. 128 and...
Property / note: Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (ca. 18th-century paper) + 155 + ii (ca. 18th-century paper) ; 16 28 38+1 4-58 7-88 98+1 10-128 138−1 148+1 158 166 178−2 18-198 206. The three full-page miniatures at fol. 47, 67 and 110 are tipped-in singletons. Fol. 20, a text page, is also a singleton. Lacking one leaf before fol. 101 and the outermost bifolium of quire 17, i.e. one folio before fol. 128 and... / rank
 
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Layout: Single column, 19 lines; bounding and writing lines in light brown or maroon plummet; bounding lines extend to top and bottom edges.
Property / note: Layout: Single column, 19 lines; bounding and writing lines in light brown or maroon plummet; bounding lines extend to top and bottom edges. / rank
 
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Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Property / note: Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics. / rank
 
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Property / note
 
Decoration: All attributed to the Masters of the Zwolle Bible. Five nine-line historiated initials in gold and colors with full acanthus border with marginal angels and animals, one at the beginning of each Office (lacking that for the Office of the Dead), and three full-page miniatures (possibly lacking one for the Office of the Dead): Virgin and Child (fol. 15, historiated initial) -- Agony...
Property / note: Decoration: All attributed to the Masters of the Zwolle Bible. Five nine-line historiated initials in gold and colors with full acanthus border with marginal angels and animals, one at the beginning of each Office (lacking that for the Office of the Dead), and three full-page miniatures (possibly lacking one for the Office of the Dead): Virgin and Child (fol. 15, historiated initial) -- Agony... / rank
 
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Property / note
 
Binding: Ca. 18th-century red morocco double panelled in gilt with elaborately-tooled borders and cornerpieces; spine compartments panelled and tooled in gilt. The endpapers are marbled followed by blank paper flyleaves without watermarks. All text block edges are gilt.
Property / note: Binding: Ca. 18th-century red morocco double panelled in gilt with elaborately-tooled borders and cornerpieces; spine compartments panelled and tooled in gilt. The endpapers are marbled followed by blank paper flyleaves without watermarks. All text block edges are gilt. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Origin: Written in Zwolle, for the use of Utrecht, ca. 1475-80. According to Beyond words exhibition catalog (no. 127), "the book can be localized on stylistic grounds to Zwolle in the eastern Netherlands. The painter of the miniatures and their accompanying painted border decoration is one of the Masters of the Zwolle Bible." The Masters of the Zwolle Bible are named for the Bible...
Property / note: Origin: Written in Zwolle, for the use of Utrecht, ca. 1475-80. According to Beyond words exhibition catalog (no. 127), "the book can be localized on stylistic grounds to Zwolle in the eastern Netherlands. The painter of the miniatures and their accompanying painted border decoration is one of the Masters of the Zwolle Bible." The Masters of the Zwolle Bible are named for the Bible... / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Provenance: Early-modern number "607" in brown ink on fol. i verso; "27" in black ink on final flyleaf; 18th-century(?) label inside front cover with shelfmark in brown ink, "N. 12/ N.G.G." (perhaps "N. 9.9."); Beresford-Hope sale, Sotheby's London, 23 Mar. 1882, lot 23 (SDBM 56866). Pencil annotations and BPL acquisition note verso of front flyleaf.
Property / note: Provenance: Early-modern number "607" in brown ink on fol. i verso; "27" in black ink on final flyleaf; 18th-century(?) label inside front cover with shelfmark in brown ink, "N. 12/ N.G.G." (perhaps "N. 9.9."); Beresford-Hope sale, Sotheby's London, 23 Mar. 1882, lot 23 (SDBM 56866). Pencil annotations and BPL acquisition note verso of front flyleaf. / rank
 
Normal rank
Property / note
 
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1957 from Nijhoff (SDBM 56867).
Property / note: Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1957 from Nijhoff (SDBM 56867). / rank
 
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Property / note
 
Call number: MS q Med.172.
Property / note: Call number: MS q Med.172. / rank
 
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Former call numer: MS 1597.
Property / note: Former call numer: MS 1597. / rank
 
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Bibliography: Edith Wright, "A Utrecht Book of Hours," BPL Quarterly (1960): 97-102; The golden age of manuscript painting (New York, 1990), ex. 248-249, example 86; Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 127.
Property / note: Bibliography: Edith Wright, "A Utrecht Book of Hours," BPL Quarterly (1960): 97-102; The golden age of manuscript painting (New York, 1990), ex. 248-249, example 86; Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 127. / rank
 
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4 December 2023
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Latest revision as of 20:04, 18 March 2024

Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444831, MS q Med.172)
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Book of hours : use of Utrecht : in Dutch]. (DS3484)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444831, MS q Med.172)

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    28 November 2023
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    Book of hours : use of Utrecht : in Dutch].
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    Manuscripts, Dutch--Netherlands
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--Netherlands
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    Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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    between 1475 and 1480
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    Extent: 155 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 168 x 130 (91 x 68) mm
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    Ms. codex.
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    In Dutch.
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    Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and by James H. Marrow's entry in the 2016 Beyond words catalog (no. 127).
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    Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (ca. 18th-century paper) + 155 + ii (ca. 18th-century paper) ; 16 28 38+1 4-58 7-88 98+1 10-128 138−1 148+1 158 166 178−2 18-198 206. The three full-page miniatures at fol. 47, 67 and 110 are tipped-in singletons. Fol. 20, a text page, is also a singleton. Lacking one leaf before fol. 101 and the outermost bifolium of quire 17, i.e. one folio before fol. 128 and...
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    Layout: Single column, 19 lines; bounding and writing lines in light brown or maroon plummet; bounding lines extend to top and bottom edges.
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    Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
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    Decoration: All attributed to the Masters of the Zwolle Bible. Five nine-line historiated initials in gold and colors with full acanthus border with marginal angels and animals, one at the beginning of each Office (lacking that for the Office of the Dead), and three full-page miniatures (possibly lacking one for the Office of the Dead): Virgin and Child (fol. 15, historiated initial) -- Agony...
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    Binding: Ca. 18th-century red morocco double panelled in gilt with elaborately-tooled borders and cornerpieces; spine compartments panelled and tooled in gilt. The endpapers are marbled followed by blank paper flyleaves without watermarks. All text block edges are gilt.
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    Origin: Written in Zwolle, for the use of Utrecht, ca. 1475-80. According to Beyond words exhibition catalog (no. 127), "the book can be localized on stylistic grounds to Zwolle in the eastern Netherlands. The painter of the miniatures and their accompanying painted border decoration is one of the Masters of the Zwolle Bible." The Masters of the Zwolle Bible are named for the Bible...
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    Provenance: Early-modern number "607" in brown ink on fol. i verso; "27" in black ink on final flyleaf; 18th-century(?) label inside front cover with shelfmark in brown ink, "N. 12/ N.G.G." (perhaps "N. 9.9."); Beresford-Hope sale, Sotheby's London, 23 Mar. 1882, lot 23 (SDBM 56866). Pencil annotations and BPL acquisition note verso of front flyleaf.
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    Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1957 from Nijhoff (SDBM 56867).
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    Call number: MS q Med.172.
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    Former call numer: MS 1597.
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    Bibliography: Edith Wright, "A Utrecht Book of Hours," BPL Quarterly (1960): 97-102; The golden age of manuscript painting (New York, 1990), ex. 248-249, example 86; Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 127.
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    4 December 2023
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