Ms. codex. In Dutch. 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). 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... Layout: Single column, 19 lines; bounding and writing lines in light brown or maroon plummet; bounding lines extend to top and bottom edges. Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics. 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... 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. 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... 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. Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL in 1957 from Nijhoff (SDBM 56867). Call number: MS q Med.172. Former call numer: MS 1597. 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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