PRAYERBOOK, in Dutch and Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Netherlands, Mechelen, final quarter 15th century] A Dutch prayerbook, whose personalised content reflects female devotional practices in the Netherlands. Apparently commissioned for a female patron resident in Mechelen – whose image appears in the prayerbook and for whose use the customised selection of prayers and liturgical texts would have been made – the present manuscript is a testament to the fusion of Netherlandish and French stylistic influences. 119 x 82mm. 102 leaves, lacking at least one leaf, 14 lines, ruled space: 74 x 52mm. Six large miniatures and ten small miniatures, six-line decorated initials opening certain texts, illuminated initials throughout (some thumbing to the borders, occasional soiling, slightly cropped). 19th-century vellum over pasteboard (lacking clasp). Provenance : This manuscript was likely commissioned for a female patron, the supplicant in contemporary dress depicted kneeling before Christ in the miniature on f.31v; St Barbara is accorded a full-page miniature in the suffrages, offering a clue either to the name of our patroness, perhaps, or her devotional preference. The calendar, for the use of Mechelen (as indicated by the inclusion of St Rumbold), offers a location for production and use – ‘Lefebvre’, 1722 (ownership inscription on f.61). Content: ff.1-11 Calendar, use of Mechelen, in Latin and Dutch (lacking first leaf); ff.12v-23 Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, in Latin; ff.32- Devotional sequence, in Dutch with some rubrication in Latin, including a collect (ff.32-35); communion prayers (ff.36-37); abridged Hours of the Cross, in the translation of Geert Grote (ff.39-43); Seven orations of St Gregory (ff.43v-45), Seven Last Words of Christ (ff.46-50), Stabat mater and an indulgenced prayer to the Virgin (f.51-55); indulgenced prayer on the Passion and further prayers, many of these Marian devotions, some indulgenced (ff.57-83); ff.85-102 Suffrages. The subjects of the miniatures are as follows: David in Prayer (f.12v); Christ blessing with female supplicant (f.31v); Agony in the Garden (f.38v); Flagellation (f.56v); St Michael slaying the dragon (f.84v); and St Barbara (f.99v). The small miniatures are on ff.36; 36v; 43v; 87; 87v; 90v; 91; 92; 93v; 95.
PRAYERBOOK, in Dutch and Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Netherlands, Mechelen, final quarter 15th century] A Dutch prayerbook, whose personalised content reflects female devotional practices in the Netherlands. Apparently commissioned for a female patron resident in Mechelen – whose image appears in the prayerbook and for whose use the customised selection of prayers and liturgical texts would have been made – the present manuscript is a testament to the fusion of Netherlandish and French stylistic influences. 119 x 82mm. 102 leaves, lacking at least one leaf, 14 lines, ruled space: 74 x 52mm. Six large miniatures and ten small miniatures, six-line decorated initials opening certain texts, illuminated initials throughout (some thumbing to the borders, occasional soiling, slightly cropped). 19th-century vellum over pasteboard (lacking clasp). Provenance : This manuscript was likely commissioned for a female patron, the supplicant in contemporary dress depicted kneeling before Christ in the miniature on f.31v; St Barbara is accorded a full-page miniature in the suffrages, offering a clue either to the name of our patroness, perhaps, or her devotional preference. The calendar, for the use of Mechelen (as indicated by the inclusion of St Rumbold), offers a location for production and use – ‘Lefebvre’, 1722 (ownership inscription on f.61). Content: ff.1-11 Calendar, use of Mechelen, in Latin and Dutch (lacking first leaf); ff.12v-23 Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany, in Latin; ff.32- Devotional sequence, in Dutch with some rubrication in Latin, including a collect (ff.32-35); communion prayers (ff.36-37); abridged Hours of the Cross, in the translation of Geert Grote (ff.39-43); Seven orations of St Gregory (ff.43v-45), Seven Last Words of Christ (ff.46-50), Stabat mater and an indulgenced prayer to the Virgin (f.51-55); indulgenced prayer on the Passion and further prayers, many of these Marian devotions, some indulgenced (ff.57-83); ff.85-102 Suffrages. The subjects of the miniatures are as follows: David in Prayer (f.12v); Christ blessing with female supplicant (f.31v); Agony in the Garden (f.38v); Flagellation (f.56v); St Michael slaying the dragon (f.84v); and St Barbara (f.99v). The small miniatures are on ff.36; 36v; 43v; 87; 87v; 90v; 91; 92; 93v; 95.
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