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Prayer book Lewis E 217
Free Library of Philadelphia
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Abstract

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.

Physical Description

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

Layout

One column of eighteen to twenty lines; ruled with a frame (first quire) and lead; written area: 103 x 70 mm

Script

Hybrida (fols. 2r-167v)

Decoration

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.

Notes

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.

Spine

Fore edge

Top edge

Bottom edge

Keywords
16th century
Netherlands
Prayer book
Dutch
Devotion
Paper
Binding
Watermark
Musical notation
Free Library of Philadelphia

Place of Origin

Brabant?, Netherlands

Date

Circa 1550

Binding

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

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Provenance

Early twentieth-century catalog entry pasted to inside front cover; at FLP by the 1930s; blue pencil "1502-3" on fol. 1r

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Place of Origin

Brabant?, Netherlands

Date

Circa 1550

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Provenance

Early twentieth-century catalog entry pasted to inside front cover; at FLP by the 1930s; blue pencil "1502-3" on fol. 1r

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

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.

Notes

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

Script note

Hybrida (fols. 2r-167v)

Decoration Note

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.

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
16th century
Netherlands
Prayer book
Dutch
Devotion
Paper
Binding
Watermark
Musical notation
Free Library of Philadelphia
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