The Osborn collection of 12 fragments of illuminated manuscripts from the 14th to the 16th century
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
f. 1r-v // die herten der apostelen een nuwe teyken der heilicheit. Opdat in hoerre alre monde soude voertcomen manieren van allen tonghen. Alleluya. Veers. Dat godlike vuer was toecomende [= Advenit ignis divinus]. Antiphona. Glorie si den Vader ... dat in horen monden gheboren worden manieren van allen tonghen. Alleluya. Te Deum. Di, God, loven wi, di, Here, belien wi. Al eertrike eert di, ewighe Vader ... in die glorie dijns Vaders. Men gelovet //, f. 2r-v //ne, ende mijn sonde is altoes tegen mi. Di allene heb ic ghesondicht ... Heer, lucke op mine lippen, ende mijn mont sal voertkundigen dijn lof. Want //
[to be identified], On parchment. Folios not in sequence, Pentecost. The "Te Deum" is in the Dutch translation of Geert Groote, N. Van Wijk, ed., Het Getijdenboek van Geert Grote (Leiden, 1940), p. 42., Ruled with blue ink for one column of 19 lines below top line (type 13, 86 x 63 mm.)., The majuscules are heightened in red. 1-line flourished initials in alternately gold with blue and blue with red penwork. At the opening of "Te Deum" 2-line dentelle initial with bar in gold, red and blue in the left margin ending in tendrils with gold balls and leaves in the upper and lower margins., and Written in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata.
f. 221r-221v: Apostles' Creed and the Confiteor; the latter incomplete, ending with "consensu tactu uisu". The phrase "ego infelix peccatrix" in the Confiteor indicates that the book was written for use by a woman. and Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of a Book of Hours, with Calendar and prayers in Flemish.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown, originally black, sheepskin; stamped in gold on the spine: "Psaterium." Red edges., Script: Written in liturgical gothic bookhand by one scribe., and Three full-page miniatures of mediocre quality. Each miniature set in a narrow frame of gold, black, pink, and white; full border of blue and gold acanthus leaves, red, pink, and blue flowers and strawberries, and black pen flecks. One 7-line historiated initial on f. 216r (Flemish Prayers): Pieta, pink with white highlights on gold; full border as above; text separated from border by a narrow band attached to initial of gold and pink, edged in black. Illuminated 5-line initials with full borders (eg. ff. 13r, 18r, 28r), pink or blue with white highlights on gold, filled with blue or pink trilobe leaves. 2-line initials, gold on pink and blue with white highlights, one on f. 92r (Advent Office) with a band attached, as above, and small sections of border, as above; one 3-line initial on f. 179r (Obsecro te) in similar manner. 1-line initials, blue with red penwork and gold with black penwork; initials within text washed in yellow. KL monograms as 2-line initials; Latin names of months and important feasts in red. Line fillers: oblique lines with dots attached, stylized plant motifs, dots, etc., in blue or gold. Rubrics in faded red.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours with prayers in Dutch. The manuscript is misbound. and Written in liturgical gothic bookhand by a single scribe.
Description:
On fol. 42r: Various manuscript signatures and notes with the name "Anna Bogardus" and "Bedelaer [?]" another hand has added a note with reference to "Haerlem.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library