Gothic manuscript

Souls in Purgatory Consoled with the Offering | Hours of Catherine of Cleves, in Latin Illuminated by the Master of Catherine of Cleves | Utrecht, The Netherlands | ca. 1440 | The Morgan Library & Museum

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This illuminated Book of Hours was produced in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. It is written in the Netherlandish translation of Geert Grote. Although lacking in full-page miniatures, the manuscript contains eighteen historiated initials by the Masters of Zweder van Culemborg with ornamental initials and decoration throughout. To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.

Humanistic Minuscule, Book of Hours

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Announced by Quaternio, the Gradual of Gisela von Kerssenbrock (Codex Gisle) is the amazing facsimile of a rare manuscript painted by a nun from Rulle.

The Art of Devotion: Illuminated Manuscripts from Local Collections aims to provide an introduction to these handwritten texts that were made in the middle ages and early Renaissance.

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