Collection ID: 0031 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Prayer book

Other related names

• Moore, Bloomfield H., Mrs., 1824-1899, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/61394097)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

1882‑983
(Philadelphia, United States, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Bloomfield Moore Collection)

Alternate identifiers

• Former-PMA-shelf-mark: B3.H71

Publisher

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Language

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin

Origin

Place

Netherlands

Summary

This small manuscript is a late fifteenth-century prayer book in Dutch, which includes a Dutch calendar, the Hours of the Cross, prayers for the Mass, the Seven Psalms of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms, and prayers to the Virgin including rosary prayers. Five major text divisions are marked by a recto text page with a floral border and a four- or five-line initial; three of these have a verso full-page miniature on the facing page. Two or three miniatures are probably missing, as leaves are missing before folios 93 and 103.

Notes

• Front flyleaves, one paper followed by two parchment; end flyleaves both paper
   
• Dutch text with a few Latin words in rubrics
   

Extent

Iii+110+ii; 89 x 61 mm bound to 93 x 71 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-2 (6), 3 (11, +1), 4-9 (10), 10 (8), 11 (12, -2), 12 (8)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Leather, gilt-tooled

Layout

One column of fifteen lines; frame-ruled in faint brown ink, with double horizontal bounding lines; written area: 55 x 36 mm

Decoration

Three full-page miniatures (Crucifixion, fol. 13v; Nativity, fol. 24v; King David in prayer with harp on the ground, fol. 53v); five text pages with an illuminated and inhabited floral border and a four-or five-line initial (fols. 14r, 25r, 37r, 54r, 93r); two-line initials in gold on blue or pink grounds and one-line initials in blue or gold throughout; rubrication in red and initials touched with red throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis

Keywords

• Prayer book
• 15th century
• Dutch
• Illumination
• Netherlands
• Devotion
• Missing leaves

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar
• fol. 14r — Hours of the Cross
• fol. 25r — Prayers for the Mass
• fol. 37r — Seven Psalms of the Virgin, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 54r — Penitential Psalms, Litany, and Prayers
• fol. 93r — Rosary and Prayers to the Virgin
• fol. 103r — Prayers to the Virgin (partial)

Decorations

• fol. 13v — Full-page miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 14r — Full illuminated border with moth
• fol. 14r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 24v — Full-page miniature, Nativity
• fol. 25r — Full illuminated border with monkey and bird
• fol. 25r — Illuminated initial W
• fol. 37r — Full illuminated border with rabbit and bird
• fol. 37r — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 53v — Full-page illumination, King David in prayer
• fol. 54r — Full illuminated border
• fol. 54r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 86v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 93r — Three-quarter illuminated border with bird and moth
• fol. 93r — Illuminated initial D