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

Title

Prayer book

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 217
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1609077
• deRicci: 4

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)

Origin

Place

Brabant?, Netherlands

Summary

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
   

Watermark

Briquet 12061

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)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Catchwords visible only for quires 20 and 24 (fols. 148v, 179v), lower right recto

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

Layout

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

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

Script

Hybrida (fols. 2r-167v)

Cursive (fols. 171r-194r)

Five hands discernible: A. 2r-4r, 17v-132v, 155r-167v; B. 4v-5r, 6r-7v, 147r-153v; C. 5v, 9v-15v, 133r-146v; D. 171r-187v; E. 188r-194r

Provenance

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

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2013, no. 4.
• Webber, Philip E., "Medieval Netherlandic Manuscripts in Greater Philadelphia Libraries," Archives et bibliotheques de Belgique 47, no. 3-4 (1976), pp. 506-510 (article pp. 459-513).

Keywords

• 16th century
• Netherlands
• Prayer book
• Dutch
• Devotion
• Paper
• Binding
• Watermark
• Musical notation

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Short prayers to Mary and to Our Lord
• fol. 9v — Litany to Mary
• fol. 17r — Prayer to Mary; incipit: Maria maghet ontfanet die gruete die vanden here u bij den yngel ghesonden is … [fol. 17r]
• fol. 26v — Prayer to Mary; incipit: God gruet u maria ouerschoene sterre des meers godlijcke op ghestaen in een licht der heydenen … [fol. 26v]
• fol. 28v — Prayer; incipit: Den eersten pater noster vermanen wij u lieue here Ihus xps allen des lijdens dat ghij ed lieue here voer ons gheleden hebt … [fol. 28v]
• fol. 34r — Prayer; incipit: Ihus xpus alpha ende o oerspronck sonder beghin ende eynde wesen van eewicheyden almachtich wijs ende goedertiernen … [fol. 34r]
• fol. 51r — Prayer to Mary; incipit: O heylighe ioeffrouwe maria in wat verwonderen dijnre ghedachten was dijn ziele verhauen inder middernacht … [fol. 51r]
• fol. 69r — Prayer; incipit: Ihus alder ontfermherticshte ontfermt u mijns erms sonderssen Ihus alder ghenadischste vader ontfanc mij al seen vader sijn kint … [fol. 69r]
• fol. 73r — Prayer; incipit: O Goedertieren here Ihu xpe des leuenden gods soens Ick bilde u dattu op doet mijn herte ende stort … [fol. 73r]
• fol. 76v — Prayer; incipit: Ick dancke u O lieue here dier grooter bannicheit die ghij xxxiii iaer lanck gheleden hebt … [fol. 76v]
• fol. 85r — Prayer; incipit: God gruet u maria een gulden monstrancie die beset ende gheschiert sijt met ghesteynten van duechden … [fol. 85r]
• fol. 89r — Prayer; incipit: O Vrouwe hoe langhe sulstu mijns vergheten om mij te verlossen inden daghe mijnre bedruckenissen … [fol. 89r]
• fol. 93v — Prayer; incipit: O suete maget maria Ick vermane u der grooten eeren die u god ghedaen heest bouen alle gheschappenen creaturen inden hemel ene inder eerden … [fol. 93v]
• fol. 100v — Prayer; incipit: Ick bidde u O h[eylighe] werdighe maria reyne ende puere maget doer die groote vroude die ghij hadt doe die yngel gabrial u condichde dat ghij die moeder gods sout sijn ... [fol. 100v]
• fol. 108v — Prayer; incipit: O Alder sekerste troest ende toeuerlack alden ghenen … [fol. 108v]
• fol. 131v — Admonition and instruction for Prayer
• fol. 133r — Prayers to Saint Anne
• fol. 155r — Prayer; incipit: Dat eerste pater noster offer ic u lieue here ter eeren dijns h[eylighe] leuens … [fol. 155r]
• fol. 171r — Short prayers associated with Indulgence
• fol. 171v — Short prayers associated with the Sacrament
• fol. 176v — Short prayers associated with the Virgin Mary
• fol. 184v — Short prayers associated with the Sacrament
• fol. 188r — Prayer to the Holy Ghost; incipit: Compt o heylighen geest ende laet nader dalen wten hemel de strale ws lichts … [fol. 188r]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Musical notation
• fol. 17r — Four line decorated initial M
• fol. 19r — Three line decorated initial M
• fol. 20r — Three line decorated initial M
• fol. 21v — Three line decorated initial M
• fol. 22v — Three line decorated initial M
• fol. 23v — Three line decorated initial M
• fol. 25r — Three line decorated initial B
• fol. 26v — Three line decorated initial G
• fol. 28v — Three line decorated initial D
• fol. 34r — Five line decorated initial I
• fol. 39r — Four line decorated initial I
• fol. 44v — Four line decorated initial I
• fol. 51r — Four line decorated initial O
• fol. 57r — Four line decorated initial I
• fol. 62r — Four line decorated initial I
• fol. 69r — Four line decorated initial I
• fol. 73r — Four line decorated initial O
• fol. 76v — Three line decorated initial I
• fol. 85r — Four line decorated initial G
• fol. 89r — Four line decorated initial O
• fol. 94r — Four line decorated initial O
• fol. 100v — Four line decorated initial I
• fol. 109r — Three line decorated initial O
• fol. 155r — Three line red decorated initial D
• fol. 171v — Four line decorated initial I
• Inside back cover — Musical notation