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This manuscript on paper is a mid-sixteenth-century Dutch prayer book, including many prayers to Mary, Jesus, Saint Anne, and the Holy Spirit. It is written by at least five hands in hybrida and cursive scripts, in a dialect of Dutch suggesting an origin in Brabant. It has decorated initials at the beginning of longer prayers and smaller red initials and rubrication throughout.
Support: Paper; Extent: 195; 136 x 95 mm bound to 140 x 102 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; a fragment sewn to fol. 192r is foliated 191 bis; Collation: 1 (4), 2-3 (6), 4 (8), 5 (9, +9), 6-7 (8), 8 (7, +3), 9 (7, +2), 10 (9, +5), 11-12 (8), 13 (4), 14-20 (8), 21 (6), 22-23 (8), 24 (9, +1), 25-26 (4), 27 (7, +1); Catchwords: Catchwords visible only for quires 20 and 24 (fols. 148v, 179v), lower right recto
One column of eighteen to twenty lines; ruled with a frame (first quire) and lead; written area: 103 x 70 mm
Hybrida (fols. 2r-167v)
Three- and four-line initials in blue with faded red penwork touched with red and green wash at the beginning of prayers; one- and two-line initials in red throughout; rubrication in red
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.
Localization by P. E. Webber based on dialect
Suggested date by P.E. Webber based on watermark
Quire 24 (nine leaves, fols. 171-179) is a complex quire in which a bifolium enclosed two quires of four, and the second half of the bifolium has been canceled
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.
Brabant?, Netherlands
Circa 1550
Original vellum wrapper containing four cut leaves of musical notation on paper in lieu of boards; two thongs attached to front cover, remnants of thongs on back cover; in ink on spine: MSS 1501-2
Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)
Early twentieth-century catalog entry pasted to inside front cover; at FLP by the 1930s; blue pencil "1502-3" on fol. 1r
Brabant?, Netherlands
Circa 1550
Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)
Early twentieth-century catalog entry pasted to inside front cover; at FLP by the 1930s; blue pencil "1502-3" on fol. 1r
This manuscript on paper is a mid-sixteenth-century Dutch prayer book, including many prayers to Mary, Jesus, Saint Anne, and the Holy Spirit. It is written by at least five hands in hybrida and cursive scripts, in a dialect of Dutch suggesting an origin in Brabant. It has decorated initials at the beginning of longer prayers and smaller red initials and rubrication throughout.
Localization by P. E. Webber based on dialect
Suggested date by P.E. Webber based on watermark
Quire 24 (nine leaves, fols. 171-179) is a complex quire in which a bifolium enclosed two quires of four, and the second half of the bifolium has been canceled
Hybrida (fols. 2r-167v)
Three- and four-line initials in blue with faded red penwork touched with red and green wash at the beginning of prayers; one- and two-line initials in red throughout; rubrication in red
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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