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Title

Liber exercitionum de singulis festivitatibus.

Other related names

• Reuschenberg, Margreta von, former owner
• Paland, Irmengarde von, former owner
• Harff, Irmengarde von, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 2160
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978939719703681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1419915330
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366271

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin and German

Origin

Date

not after 1589

Place

Germany

Summary

Prayer book in Latin and German for the part of the liturgical year between Easter and the Feast of the Holy Cross (December 28), with feasts of the temporal cycle from the Easter Vigil through Trinity Sunday (f. 4v-155v) and selected feasts of the sanctoral cycle from the Visitation (2 July) through the Feast of the Holy Cross (f. 159v-282v). The feasts from the sanctoral cycle are almost exclusively commemorations of the Virgin Mary (Visitiation, Assumption, Nativity, Conception) or of female saints (Margaret, Anne, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Cecilia). Many of the feasts have rosary texts in addition to other prayers. The text on the last leaf, with Latin passages written in a different script, seems to be a prayer based on a passage in the Liber specialis gratiae of the 13th-century German nun Mechthild of Hackeborn, part 1, chapter 23 (f. 283r-283v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from incipit (f. 1r).
   

Extent

283 leaves : 152 x 110 (112 x 65) mm bound to mm

Collation

Paper, 283; 1-34⁸ 35⁸⁻¹(-8) 36⁸⁻⁴ (-5, -6, -7, -8); [1-283], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; modern gatherings signed in pencil, (1)-(36), lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Early (1580s) calf, blind-tooled and blind-stamped, including the name Margreta [?]bergensis (upper cover) and date 1583 or 1589 (lower cover), spine lacking; metal cornerpieces and two catches on the fore edge of the upper cover (clasps now missing). Supports and sewing are visible.

Layout

Written in 18-20 long lines; octavo format.

Script

Written in Gothic hybrid script by a single hand, with the Latin text on the final leaf (f. 283r-283v) written in humanistic semicursive.

Provenance

• Formerly owned or used in the 16th century by Margreta von Reuschenberg (inscription in ink, inside front cover, and blind-stamped on cover) and Irmengarde von Palant (written de Paland in the manuscript, with the name de Paland later crossed out and replaced with Harff, inside front cover), the first two and possibly all three canonesses at the Prämonstratenserinnenkloster St. Marien (Premonstrantensian (also known as Norbertine) abbey) in Heinsberg, Germany, near the border with the Netherlands.
   
• Sold by Venator & Hanstein (Cologne, Germany), Sale 169 (30 September 2022), lot 346.
   

Subjects topical

• Monastic and religious life of women--Early works to 1800
• Premonstratensians--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Abbeys--Germany

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Prayers
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, German--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Prayer book
• 16th century
• German
• Germany
• Paper
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• Inside front cover — Ownership inscriptions
• fol. 1r — Liber exercitionum de singulis festivitatibus