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Title

Middle Dutch Prayer Book

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 56
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin

Origin

Place

Netherlands

Summary

This manuscript is a mid-fifteenth-century Dutch prayerbook. Beginning with a section of prayers to the Virgin interspersed with rubrics listing the Psalms in order and dividing the Psalms and prayers by the days of the week (pp. 1-133), many additional prayers to the Virgin follow, including prayers attributed to Saint Augustine, Saint Bernard, and Saint Francis. A few prayers are directed to Jesus Christ. Written on parchment, the book is modestly decorated with a few puzzle initials and numerous simple colored initials in red or blue. The Pater noster and Ave Maria are written in Latin at the end (p. 441), followed by a possible owner name (Huernynck?, p. 442). A few contemporary corrections are written in the margins.

Notes

• Marginal corrections or notes (p. 263, 407, 425, 427)
   
• Positions of single leaves within quires 7, 8, and 27 are hypothetical
   

Extent

I+221+i; 112 x 74 mm bound to 117 x 84 mm

Foliation

Modern pagination in pencil, upper right corner of rectos, odd numbers only

Collation

1 (8), 2 (6), 3-6 (8), 7 (9, +9), 8 (7, +7), 9-18 (8), 19-20 (10), 21-22 (8), 23-24 (10), 25-26 (8), 27 (7, +1)

Signatures

Quires 24, 26, and 27 signed in modern pencil, lower right first recto (fols. 377, 413, 429); minimal remnants of trimmed signatures visible in other quires

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Minimal remnants of trimmed catchwords, lower right last verso

Binding

Leather binding, probably nineteenth century, with two brass clasps, restored by J. McDonald Co. (Norwalk, Connecticut); marbled endpapers and two ribbon bookmarks

Layout

Written in a single column of nineteen lines; frame-ruled with double horizontal bounding lines and single vertical bounding lines in faint ink; prickings visible; written area: 75 x 49 mm

Decoration

Two decorated puzzle initials in red and blue with flourishing in red and purple, one seven-line (p. 1) and one eight-line (p. 5); one five-line decorated initial in blue flourished in purple (p. 151); one six-line decorated initial in red (p. 341); every other division or prayer begins with a two-, three-, or four-line initial, red or blue indiscriminately, with guide initials frequently visible; sentences begin with red or blue one-line initials; rubrics written in red (or, at the end of the book, underlined in red when mistakenly written in black (for example, p. 304, 417, 432-440))

Script

Written in a late gothic bookhand by at least two scribes

Provenance

• Purchased from dealer William H. Allen, Philadelphia, 1970
   

Keywords

• Prayer book
• 15th century
• Dutch
• Netherlands
• Devotion

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — [Prayer to God]
• 5 — [Prayers to the Blessed Virgin, interspersed with rubrics listing the Psalms]
• 27 — [Monday]
• 38 — [Tuesday]
• 51 — [Wednesday]
• 64 — [Thursday]
• 74 — [Friday]
• 88 — [Saturday]
• 99 — [Sunday Vespers]
• 103 — [Monday Vespers]
• 112 — [Wednesday Vespers]
• 116 — [Thursday]
• 121 — [Friday Vespers]
• 127 — [Saturday Vespers]
• 133 — [Te Deum of the Virgin]; incipit: Dy moder gades lave wi di vrouwe belie wi … [p. 133]
• 137 — [Litany to the Virgin]; incipit: Here ontfarme di onser [Christ]e … [p. 137]
• 150 — [Seven Psalms of the Virgin]; incipit: Hier beghinit onser liever vrouwen soenen psalme [rubric, p. 150]
• 151 — [Seven Psalms of the Virgin]; incipit: O vrouwe maria almechtich m[o]der … [p. 151]
• 181 — [Prayer to the Virgin]; incipit: Dit is die crone des laues onser liever vrouwen die men hoe ducke lesen sal ... [rubric, p. 181]
• 202 — [Twenty-two Ave Marias]; incipit: O Ghenadige moder der ontfarm herticheit ic bid u doer die gebenedide ore[n] daer gi mede hoer den die engelsche gruete … [p. 202]
• 213 — [Prayer to the Virgin]; incipit: Ghegruet sistu heilige maria joncfrouwe van herten … [p. 213]
• 222 — [Seven Joys of the Virgin]; incipit: Hier beghinen dir soeven vrouden onser lieven vrouwen [rubric, p. 222]
• 223 — [Seven Joys of the Virgin]; incipit: Vervrouwet u heilige godes moder van den blomen der mech delicht …
• 228 — [Prayer to the Virgin]; incipit: O gloriose vrouwe en alre suotste maget heilighe maria moder gades … [p. 228]
• 237 — [Prayer to the Virgin at the hour of death]; incipit: O gloriose ionfer en[de] suuerelike moder [christ]I en[de] wonderlike maget ... [p. 237]
• 242 — [Prayer of Saint Bernard to the Virgin]; incipit: O Heilige gloriose ioncfrouwe maria gheweerdicht u dat ic u laue en[de] geuet mi cracht tege[n] myne viande … [p. 242]
• 278 — [Prayer of Saint Bernard to the Virgin]; incipit: O Maria ic spreke tot dine[n] herte[n] en[de] anbede[n] dat als een heilich tempel gades … [p. 278]
• 305 — [Prayer to the Trinity]; incipit: Dy si lof di si glorie di si werke d[e] dancbarheit … p. 305]
• 310 — [Prayer of Saint Augustine]; incipit: O h[er]e god almechtige vader die viste drievoldich en[de] eenvoldich … [p. 310]
• 321 — [Prayer of Saint Francis]; incipit: Ic gruete di micter un gelscher weerdicheit … [p. 320]
• 341 — [Prayer of Saint Augustine at the Holy Sacrament]; incipit: O Myn heil ghif my dat myn siele en my[n] licham di ontfange mit alre reneregen en schemelheiden … [p. 341]
• 384 — [Seven prayers it is good to say at Mass]; incipit: O Guerdertiere[n] h[er]e ih[es]u [christ]e ic rope totti … [p. 384]
• 406 — [Prayer of St. Francis greeting the Lord]; incipit: Ghebenedijt en[de] gelaest si dat weerde heilige hoest ons lieve[n] h[er]en jh[es]u [christ]i dat daer gebrake[n] wart en[de] mitter … [p. 406]
• 412 — [Prayer to the wounds of Christ]; incipit: Een gebet totter wonden die onse lieve h[er]e … [rubric, p. 412]
• 413 — [Prayer to the wounds of Christ]; incipit: O lieve h[er]e ih[es]u [christ]e sacht modige lam … [p. 413]
• 423 — [Prayer to the sorrows of Christ]; incipit: O Alre mynlicste here ih[es]u [christ]e, ic bidde di doer dine onbegripeliker guedertierenheit … [p. 423]
• 441 — Prayer, Pater noster
• 441 — Prayer, Ave Maria
• 442 — Inscription, huernynck[?]

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 verso — Bookbinder stamp, J. McDonald Co. Norwalk, Conn.
• 1 — Decorated initial O
• 5 — Decorated initial O
• 28 — Decorated initial O
• 38 — Decorated initial O
• 51 — Decorated initial D
• 64 — Decorated initial O
• 74 — Decorated initial U
• 88 — Decorated initial S
• 99 — Decorated initial D
• 102 — Decorated initial I
• 112 — Decorated initial I
• 133 — Decorated initial D
• 151 — Decorated initial O
• 182 — Decorated initial G
• 202 — Decorated initial O
• 213 — Decorated initial G
• 223 — Decorated initial U
• 228 — Decorated initial O
• 242 — Decorated initial O
• 278 — Decorated initial O
• 305 — Decorated initial D
• 321 — Decorated initial I
• 341 — Decorated initial O
• 384 — Decorated initial I
• 406 — Decorated initial G
• 413 — Decorated initial O
• 423 — Decorated initial O
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Bookbinder stamp, J. McDonald Co. Norwalk, Conn.