Provenance: Copied at the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen in Northern
Germany. Probably still at Medingen in the early sixteenth century.
Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow: formerly in the von Bülow
library in Schloss Beyernaumburg in Saxony-Anhalt near
Sangershausen (assembled from 1834-1836). Brockdorff family of
Holstein: perhaps Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau (Lähnemann,
2016). Koller Auctionen, Zurich, 21 Sept. 2013, lot 178. Les
Enluminures, Women and the Book, 24 Jan. - 21 Feb. 2015, cat. 8.
Purchased by the Bodleian.
Contents: Calendar (ff. 1v-13r). Computational tables (ff.
13v-17r). Psalterii sancti iohannis (ff. 17v). Lord's Prayer (ff.
18r-19v). Biblical Psalter (ff. 20v-248v). Gallican Canticles (ff.
249r-268v). Creed (ff. 268v-272r). Litany (ff. 272r-275r). Prayers
for the dying and burial (ff. 275r-284v).
Hand: Gothic bookhand written by the nun Margaret Hopes,
identifiable by the calendar reference to ‘Dydericus hopes pater
meus’ (Lähnemann 2016).
