Form:
1 volume, 219 leaves : historiated, decorated and pen-flourished
initials, border decoration, (16th-century) woodcuts ; 140xc.100
mm Content:
Collection of prayers, in Dutch. Contains among others: indulgence
prayers (15r, 35r-40r), prayers to the child Jesus and his mother
Mary (40v-43r), communion prayers (57v-67v), prayers to the Virgin
Mary (68r-117v, including Onser liever vrouwen psalter), to St.
Anne (118r-141v), Hondert artikelen van der passien ons heren jhesu
Christi / Henry Suso (150r-167r), prayers for dying and deceased
sisters (169v-214v). - A complete analysis of the contents in
Lieftinck 1948. Note:
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Leather (blind-tooled)
over wooden boards. Decorated with panel stamps (3 dragons). Two
clasp fastenings (closing back to front, hook missing).
Textual: (f. 84v-113v) Onser liever vrouwen psalter, divided into
three rosaries. Incipit: "O eerweerdige ende hoege drievoldicheit u
moet laven u almechtige moegentheit ...". - (f. 150r-167r) Dutch
translation of Willem Jordaens' Latin translation of Henry Suso's
Hundert betrachtungen und Begherungen (third part of the Büchlein
der ewighen Weisheit).
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Rogge & 1887):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:124748
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1937):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491717
Description (Lieftinck 1948):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:489936
Description (BNM 450):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1906962
Also described by MMDC.
Long-term loan from the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde.
Acquired by MNL in 1837. Former MNL shelfmark: 157. Part of:
Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde - Bibliotheek Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
16th century
