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Middle Dutch book of hours

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1667/002

Merel Waeyaert, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2021 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

Additional remarks by Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023.

General Information

Title Middle Dutch book of hours
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.1667/2
Former Shelfmarks BHSL.HS.1667/2
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Low Countries
Date of Origin 15th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis formata: angular letters, descenders never below baseline, double-compartment a.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 88 mm
Page Width at least 53 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines at least 12
Line Height 4 – 5 mm
Ruling Full lead-point ruling

Current Condition

Extent 1 strip
Dimensions 88 x 39 mm
More about the Current Condition

One horizontal strip. Upper edge of fragment is torn. Slightly wrinkled.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

No decoration visible.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle Dutch
    • Title Book of hours, prayer
    • fol. [1]r

History

Provenance

The fragment volume was bought by the Dutch collector and antiquarian Jacobus Johannes Nieuwenhuyzen (d. 1860), whose collection was auctioned in Amsterdam on 25 March 1861.
Persons and Institutions Jacobus Johannes Nieuwenhuyzen (previous owner, d. 1860)
Remarks

This fragment was bound in a volume together different unrelated fragments of medieval and early modern manuscript fragments. The volume was disbound in 2022 and all the fragments are now stored separately. 

Host Volume

Remarks

The fragment was used to create a stuck-on headband for an otherwise unidentified volume.

Bibliography

  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), 245.
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