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Prayer book 1882‑983
Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Manuscript Overview
References
Binding Images

Abstract

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.

Physical Description

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)

Layout

One column of fifteen lines; frame-ruled in faint brown ink, with double horizontal bounding lines; written area: 55 x 36 mm

Script

Gothic--textualis

Decoration

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.

Notes

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.

Spine

Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
Prayer book
15th century
Dutch
Illumination
Netherlands
Devotion
Missing leaves
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Place of Origin

Netherlands

Date

Circa 1470

Binding

Leather, gilt-tooled

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin

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Place of Origin

Netherlands

Date

Circa 1470

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

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.

Notes

Front flyleaves, one paper followed by two parchment; end flyleaves both paper

Dutch text with a few Latin words in rubrics

Script note

Gothic--textualis

Decoration Note

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.

References
Binding Images

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.

Spine

Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
Prayer book
15th century
Dutch
Netherlands
Devotion
Missing leaves
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
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