Form:
1 volume, 207 leaves : painted initials and border decoration,
pen-flourishing initials ; 140x105 mm Content:
Contains prayers in Dutch: (ff. 1r-21v) Hondert artikelen van der
passien ons heren jhesu christi / Henry Suso. Dutch translation. -
(ff. 21v-29r) Salve meum salutare / Arnulf of Leuven. Dutch
translation ascribed to Bernard of Clairvaux. - (ff. 29r-100v)
Other prayers on the life and passion of Christ. - (ff. 100v-142r)
Communion prayers. - (ff. 142r-153v) Prayers to the Virgin Mary. -
(ff. 154r-207v) Onser liever vrouwen mantel. Prayer cycle to the
Virgin Mary, arranged for week days: Monday (160v), Wednesday
(170r), Thursday (174v), Friday (178r), Saturday (184v), Sunday
(201v). Note:
Origin: Decorated in Zwolle (Arme Klerkenhuis) but possibly written
in Kampen, according to Obbema 1996. in view of a prayer "mit onsen
hilighen vader" St. Francis (f. 126r) the scribe probably belonged
to a convent of tertiaries (of St. Michael in Kampen, as did the
early owner Bye Sals?).
Decoration: Historiated initial on f. 1r (11 lines high), with
painted decoration in three borders, Sarijs-group style, similar to
initial of ms. Cambridge UL, Add. 4103 (cf. Wierda (1995), ill.
29.). - Golden dentelle initials 57-10 lines) with painted
decoration half enclosing borders, Sarijs-group style: f. 22r, 29v
, 55r, 73v ('H 'instead of 'V'!), 76r, 87r, 97r, 109r, 136r, 142r,
154r, 178r. - blue initials (3-8 lines) with red penwork: ff. 35v,
42r, 50v, 62v, 64r, 69v, 70v, 75v, 79r, 100v, 102r, 113v, 117r,
120r, 121v, 124r, 126r, 128v, 129r, 131r, 136v, 137r, 140v, 141r-v,
150r, 151r, 152v, 160v, 170v, 174v, 175r, 184v, 201v. - Blue
initials (2 lines) and versals. - Rubrication and rubrics.
Collation: 10IV (1-65 67-81), IV-3 (82, 83-85, 86), III+2 (87-94),
6IV (95-142), V (143-152), IV+1 (153, 154-161), 4IV (162-193),
III+2 (IV (194-201), III (202-207). - Quire signatures on leaves of
the first quire halfs, partly cut away (a-h, j-z, z*, z#). - Modern
foliation in pencil, with error: 1-65, 67-207. - Singletons instead
of a bifolium in two quaternios: ff. 89, 92 (3 and 6) and ff. 194,
201 (1 and 8). - Three leaves missing between, ff. 82//83,
85//86.
Binding: Post-medieval binding. - Rebound in Sint Catharinadal,
Oosterhout (1969): leather over wooden boards; bookblock sewn on
four supports; two clasp fastenings.
Textual: Content partly similar to that of another prayerbook from
the Sarijs group: The Hague, Royal Library, 131 H 4. - Titles in
red, often incomplete due to lack of space.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Also described by BNM. Part of:
Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde - Bibliotheek Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
