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Devotions, in Dutch : [manuscript]

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Description
ff. 1-166; [Devotions]: ff. 1v-13: Full calendar, one month across each opening; f. 13v, ruled, but blank; ff. 14-25v: [f. 14, blank], Short hours of the Holy Cross in the Dutch version of Geert Grote; ff. 26-55: [f. 26, blank], Devotions on the Passion for the canonical hours; ff. 55-62v: Prayers to the Cross, of the Seven Last Words, of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin; ff. 63-81v: [f. 63, blank], Mass of St. Gregory, prayers for the rosary; f. 80r-v, ruled, but blank; ff. 81-110v: Meditations for the rosary; ff. 111-121v: Suffrages of Jerome, one's guardian angel, Michael Archangel, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Cornelius, Martin, Anne, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Agnes, All Saints; ff. 120-121v, ruled, but blank; ff. 122-138v: [f. 122, blank] Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 139-144v: [f. 139, blank] Suffrages of Erasmus (with indulgence) and Christopher, prayer to Anne; ff. 144v-147v: Four prayers with indulgences; ff. 147v-154v: Prayers for Mass; ff. 155-164: Prayers for the week. ff. 164v-166v, blank.
Type
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Date
[between 1485 and 1499]
Call number
mssHM 1140
Provenance
The owner portrait on f. 112 is of a woman. Birth and death notices of the Van Nuissenborch family of Dordrecht, from 1598 to 1609, on the front and back flyleaves; on f. ii recto-verso, 18 coats of arms, identified, and with tinctures labelled, of which the first is that of Nuyssenburg of Dordrecht (Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 299). Belonged to Robert Hoe; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. I, n. 2150 to G. D. Smith. Smith Cat. 1 (1911) s. n. (described on the back cover) to Henry E. Huntington in April 1912.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
113 x 168 mm
Associated people
Groote, Gerard, (1340-1384.)
Hoe, Robert, (1839-1909,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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