(Q47189)
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Book of hours
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Burmester, Frederick
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Belgium--1450-1500
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ca. 1480
15. century
1480Gregorian
1480Gregorian
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Extent: 128 leaves, bound : vellum ; 20 cm.
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The Dutch translation is by Geert Groote.
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Use of the Augustinian Canons of Windesheim, Netherlands.
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Written in a compressed gothic book hand in black ink in 1 column with red rubrics. There are many small illuminated initials.
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There are 5 historiated initials and 1 historiated and 4 illusionistic borders, by an artist whose style resembles that of the Flemish Master of Mary of Burgundy.
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Written in Belgium for a patron in Holland, to judge from the translation and the Utrecht calendar, and the Dutch binding.
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"One signature removed [after f. 70] by P[hilip] H[ofer] as a gift to Alan Valentine 10/9/59" - note on front flyleaf. Six of these leaves are now Morgan Library MS M. 959.
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Bound in original panel-stamped brown calf with 2 brass clasps. The panel shows the lamb of God within a mandorla inscribed "Siet dat lam Goedes dat roert die sonden d'verl".
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In a tray case, 22 cm.
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Frederick Burmester (armorial bookplate).
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Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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