Beinecke MS 32 (olim Z111.155)                                     Netherlands, s. XV
Hours, use of Utrecht (in Netherlandish)

          The contents of the surviving folios were worked out by N. R. Ker.
     Because the folios are so badly out of order, the contents are given by
     sections rather than by the present sequence of folios.

     1. ff.    32-39 Penitential Psalms (incomplete at beginning) and Litany
     (breaks off before invocation of saints). Responses present (for
     lessons 1, 7, 8 and 9) correspond to Utrecht use.

     2. ff. 24-26, 30-31, 27-29, 5-12, 16-23, 1, 40-41    Office of the
     Dead, Utrecht use, beginning at the third nocturn of Matins; prayers at
     the end to the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist. ff. 42r-43v ruled,
     but blank

     3. ff. 2r-4v    Prayers in Netherlandish. //ende vereinghe mi mit
     di...Ene ghebet vanden sacrament. Ic groet di inder afgronde diinre
     ewigher godliker minnen...; (f. 4r) Een heilich man leert. Als wy onsen
     heren sullen ontfaen so sellen wi gaen...; (f. 4v) Dit seltu lesen
     alstu onsen heren ontfanghen hebste mit innich//

     4. ff. 13r-15v    Prayers in Netherlandish. //tende boven allen lichten
     want sonder di gheen lichtenis...; (f. 14r) Ene ghebet vanden
     sacrament. Danc segghen wi di almachtighe vader want du mi arme
     sondersche...[Meertens, v. 6, p. 243]; (f. 14v) Een goet ghebet. Heer
     godstadighe in ons dattu heuest gewrocht in mi...; (f. 15r) Een
     ghebet.
     O heer ihesu christe die alle tut voer ons gheoffert
     wordste...[Meertens, v. 6, p. 282]; (f. 15v) Here ihesu christe die mit
     wille des vaters ende des heilighen gheests...die mi toe gheuoecht siin
     te bidden//

          Parchment, ff. 43, 135 x 102 (72 x 52) mm. Written in 18 long
     lines; ruled in pale brown ink; double horizontal and single vertical
     bounding lines, full across; prickings in outer margins.
          The manuscript is misbound. The collation of the surviving folios
     should probably be: I^^8 (ff. 32-39), II^^8 (ff. 24-26, 30-31, 27-29),
     III^^8 (ff. 5-12), IV^^8 (ff. 16-23), V^^8 (ff. 1, 40-43; -2, 7, 8; 7 and
     8 probably blank), VI^^8 (ff. 2-4, 13-15; -4 and 5). The original
     position of VI is uncertain, but it probably came towards the end of
     the manuscript.
          Written in liturgical gothic bookhand by a single scribe. 3-, 2-,
     and 1-line initials with very fine penwork: gold with dark blue penwork
     or blue with red penwork. 1-line initials within the text black with
     one or two red strokes. Line fillers: blue cables. Rubrics in orange-
     tinted red.
          Water damage on ff. 8v, 38v and 39v has obliterated some initials;
     the text is still legible.
          Binding: Date? Bookblock tacked to a vellum folder. The light
     rectangular patch on the front cover, lower left, was probably left by
     the removal of a shelf tag.

          Written in Utrecht [?] in the 15th century. Signatures and notes
     on f. 42r (s. xix) with the name Anna Bogardus and "Bedelaer [?]";
     another hand has added a note with reference to "Haerlem." Gift of John
     B. Galbraith in 1922.

     Bibiliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 168, no. 32.

     Barbara A. Shailor