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Lot n° 445
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OFFICE IF THE DEAD, in Latin, following the use of the Benedictine Abbey of Seebach (Dürkheim, Rheinland).

Estimation : 8000 / 10000
Adjudication : 7 000 €
Description
In-8° (18 x 13 cm) : [87] leaves of heavy vellum (last lv blank, tear with small lack at the bottom of lv 6, small clear angular stain at lower right corner of last lvs). Contemporary binding : full calf over wooden boards, blind stamped decoration of large rectangulars with roll-stamps figuring virtues, 5 floral gilt tools in the center and at the corners of the inner rectangular of each board, ribbed spine, one brass clasp (of 2) (front hinge weak)
RARE FLEMISH BOOK OF HOURS SIGNED AND DATED BY THE SCRIBE : "Adrian[us] Donchius scripsit hu[n]c libru[m] 1572" (34r°); "Finis 1572" (86r°).
The text (12 x 8 cm, with wide margins) is written in a "littera hybrida" by a neat and large late-gothic hand; rubricated throughout in red and blue and with musical scores on 4 lines.
With large 7-line illuminated initial "D" on a brick background containing the coat of arms of the family van Zuylen van Nyevelt and their name "Suylen van Nieuvelt" in a banderolle above (40r°, i.e. on the first leaf of the Seven Penitential Psalm). This page with illuminated borders showing brightly colored flowers and a peacock on a yellow background in the late Ghent-Bruges style.
Another manuscript with the same text and by the same hand is actually part of the collection of the "Conservatoire de Paris" (Rés. 1542).
Provenance : written for a female member of the Dutch noble family van Zuylen van Nyevelt (see also at the bottom of 40r° where the name in pen is cut half away), a Benedictine nun at the abbey of Saint-Lawrence of Seebach near Dürkheim (Rheinland, Germany), founded in 1198 and suppressed in 1589.
# Colophons manuscrits occidentaux. Fribourg, 1965, n° 283.-- Ottosen, K.- The Responsories and Versicles of the Latin Office of the Dead. Aarhus, 1993, p. 279 and xxv.
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