| Annotation | Known as: Gumbert-Gerritsen Book of Hours or Gumbert-Gerritsen Getijdenboek. Place of production and dating: Utrecht, approximately 1460-1477, dated by the style of decoration. Calender of the diocese of Utrecht. Decoration: pen work in the so-called "kroon-en-draakstijl" [=crown-and-dragon style], with a Utrecht dragon on leaf 87v. Modern foliation with pencil by Peter Gumbert. On front flyleaf strip with handwritten text, dated approximately 1800: "Een Nederduits Getijde-Boek op Perkament geschreven omtrent Ao 1400. met goude Voorletters, Cieraden en Miniatuuren konstig gewerkt". Incomplete. At least 43 leaves have been removed, including all higher decoration and miniatures. Further documentation shows that the manuscript must have had at least 141 leaves, but it is not clear which hours are all missing. Now remain: calendar (entirely intact), Mariagetijden (32 of 50 leaves present), Wijsheidsgetijden (10 of 27 leaves present), Korte Kruisgetijden (2 of 4 leaves present), and Boetpsalmen (42 of 48 leaves present). On leaf 6r (June 1th) next to Odulf confessor added in ink: sancta cunera. Loose quires and leaves, with remnants of bindings, in a blue loose cover with gold printing (“Nederduits Getijde-boek 1400") and slipcase. Added: portfolio with documentation, containing a.o. : print of e-mail (2 leaves) by J. P. Gumbert to Gisela Gerritsen-Geywitz, dated Dec. 3rd, 2024, giving a description of the manuscript. -- small card with text: Gecollationeerd met Nederduitsche Getijdeboek (Delft, 1480) . Kon. Bibl. 169 G 49. De lettertjes geven de signaturen van het incunabel aan. In handwriting of Prof. Gumberts: (ontbreken!) -- Catalog card from the Royal Library, The Hague, with text on verso side: Niet in incunabel. Uit: Des heilighen cruus corte ghetide -- Description of the contents of the manuscript. Cite as: Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht Hs 35 A 18 Anne, Fokke and Marc Gerritsen, the three children of Prof. Wim Gerritsen (1935-2019), professor of medieval Dutch literature, and Gisela Gerritsen-Geywitz (1934-2023); Gift; 202404 It is likely that this book of hours is from the collection of the Amsterdam merchant and alderman Josua Jacob van Winter (1788-1840), whose books were auctioned on April 2, 1841. Notes, written on a flyleaf of a manuscript, also a Middledutch book of hours, kept in the University Library Leiden, LTK 299, and LTK 222, 325, and 342, are similar tot the title description written on the strip on the front flyleaf of this manuscript. All are from the Van Winter collection (cf. G. I. Lieftinck, Codicum in finibus Belgarum ante annum 1550 conscriptorum qui in Bibliotheca Universitatis asservantur. Pars I: Codices 168-360 societatis cui nomen Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde. Codices Manuscripti V (1948), p. 116). Donated to the Utrecht University Library by Anne, Fokke and Marc Gerritsen, the three children of Prof. Wim Gerritsen (1935-2019), professor of medieval Dutch literature, and Gisela Gerritsen-Geywitz (1934-2023), in April 2024 as part of the archival and book collections of both their parents, which were also transferred to the University Library Utrecht at that time. The manuscript had been bequeathed to Gisela Gerritsen-Geywitz by Peter Gumbert (1936-2016), professor of Western paleography and handwriting at Leiden. Prof. Gumbert got it in or after December 2005 from Lucienne Habets of auction house Beijers in Utrecht, where it had been for years; its provenance was otherwise unknown. Gisela Gerritsen-Geywitz, Het Utrechtse draakje en zijn entourage. Hilversum 2017. P. 53 (ill. leaf 1r), 130, 143 (no. 106). | Translate |
