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This small manuscript is a late fifteenth-century prayer book in Dutch, which includes a Dutch calendar, the Hours of the Cross, prayers for the Mass, the Seven Psalms of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms, and prayers to the Virgin including rosary prayers. Five major text divisions are marked by a recto text page with a floral border and a four- or five-line initial; three of these have a verso full-page miniature on the facing page. Two or three miniatures are probably missing, as leaves are missing before folios 93 and 103.
Support: Parchment; Extent: iii+110+ii; 89 x 61 mm bound to 93 x 71 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; Collation: 1-2 (6), 3 (11, +1), 4-9 (10), 10 (8), 11 (12, -2), 12 (8)
One column of fifteen lines; frame-ruled in faint brown ink, with double horizontal bounding lines; written area: 55 x 36 mm
Gothic--textualis
Three full-page miniatures (Crucifixion, fol. 13v; Nativity, fol. 24v; King David in prayer with harp on the ground, fol. 53v); five text pages with an illuminated and inhabited floral border and a four-or five-line initial (fols. 14r, 25r, 37r, 54r, 93r); two-line initials in gold on blue or pink grounds and one-line initials in blue or gold throughout; rubrication in red and initials touched with red throughout
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Front flyleaves, one paper followed by two parchment; end flyleaves both paper
Dutch text with a few Latin words in rubrics
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Netherlands
Circa 1470
Leather, gilt-tooled
Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin
Netherlands
Circa 1470
Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin
This small manuscript is a late fifteenth-century prayer book in Dutch, which includes a Dutch calendar, the Hours of the Cross, prayers for the Mass, the Seven Psalms of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms, and prayers to the Virgin including rosary prayers. Five major text divisions are marked by a recto text page with a floral border and a four- or five-line initial; three of these have a verso full-page miniature on the facing page. Two or three miniatures are probably missing, as leaves are missing before folios 93 and 103.
Front flyleaves, one paper followed by two parchment; end flyleaves both paper
Dutch text with a few Latin words in rubrics
Gothic--textualis
Three full-page miniatures (Crucifixion, fol. 13v; Nativity, fol. 24v; King David in prayer with harp on the ground, fol. 53v); five text pages with an illuminated and inhabited floral border and a four-or five-line initial (fols. 14r, 25r, 37r, 54r, 93r); two-line initials in gold on blue or pink grounds and one-line initials in blue or gold throughout; rubrication in red and initials touched with red throughout
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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