Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Prayer book

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Vallentin, James, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 174
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1609076
• deRicci: 152
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2954

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Origin

Place

Flanders

Summary

This manuscript contains a fifteenth-century prayer book on the Passion of the Christ written in Dutch.

Extent

I+110+i; 145 x 101 mm bound to 151 x 103 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Structure uncertain; the folios have been rearranged so that the texts are out of order; the original order was 1r-8v, 81r-109v, 41r-80v, 9r-40v, 110 (added later)

Support

Parchment

Binding

18th century vellum binding, edges dyed blue, traces of straps on front and back covers

Layout

Frame-ruled in lead; one column of twenty-two lines; written area: 103 x 75 mm

Decoration

One full-page miniature (Agony in the Garden, fol. 2v); two marginal images: The five wounds (fol. 1r), Heart pierced by arrows (fol. 9v); large decorated initials in red and blue with pen flourishing and partial borders; one- and two-line initials in red or blue throughout; three-line decorated initials in red and blue with pen flourishing throughout; rubrication throughout; marginal imagery throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis, with some cursive features

Provenance

• James Vallentin (signature front flyleaf recto); Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• Prayer book
• 15th century
• Flemish
• Miniature
• Flanders
• Devotion
• Liturgy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Henricus Suso, Centum mediations domincae pasiones (One Hundred Articles on the Lord's Passion) in Dutch
• fol. 8v — Prayers, in Dutch
• fol. 81r — Henricus Suso, Centum mediations dominicae pasiones (One hundred Articles), in Dutch (continued from fol. 8v)
• fol. 98r — Arnulf van Leuven, Salve meum salutare, in Dutch
• fol. 110r — Prayer in Dutch

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Signature, James Vallentin
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial C
• fol. 1r — Five wounds of Christ
• fol. 2v — Miniature, Agony in the Garden
• fol. 9v — Heart pierced by arrows
• fol. 15v — Decorated initial O
• fol. 15v — Marginalia
• fol. 41r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 41r — Decorated panel border
• fol. 64r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 65v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 67v — Decorated initial O
• fol. 71v — Decorated initial G
• fol. 73r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 73r — Full panel border
• fol. 74r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 74r — Marginalia
• fol. 78r — Border with text
• fol. 89r — Decorated initial G
• fol. 95v — Decorated initial O
• fol. 104v — Decorated initial O
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Signature, James Vallentin