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11. Add MS 20729

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Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This Middle Dutch prayer-book presents a carefully organised programme of Psalms and prayers to God, Christ and the Virgin Mary divided over the days of the week. The prayer-book opens with a preface (ff. 2r-6r) in which the compiler explains that he has designed the prayer-book’s programme in o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

12. Add MS 20859

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Title:
Middle Dutch Prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This highly decorated Middle Dutch prayer-book was produced in the Northern Netherlands around 1500 for a patron who is depicted (a young man holding a rosary and a book) with an (unidentified) coat of arms (argent, on a chrevron azure between three hands gules, a star or) twice in the manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

Parchment manuscript.

13. Add MS 24332

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Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This Middle Dutch prayer-book contains several standard texts typical in books of Hours, such as the Hours of the Holy Cross and the Seven Penitential Psalms, but also an unusual combination of the Hours of the Holy Spirit and of the Virgin Mary (ff. 63r-104r and ff. 134r-232r). The manuscript a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

Paper manuscript

14. Add MS 24898

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Title:
A religious ABC-poem in Middle Dutch
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a moral and religious ABC-poem (a poem in which the initials of the poem's stanzas make up the alphabet) in Middle Dutch. The ABC-poem was a popular form of poetry in the late medieval Low Countries, especially among so-called 'Rederijkerskamers', urban societies of arti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
1560
Extent:

1 volume

15. Add MS 24937

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Title:
Middle Dutch Guide for Spiritual Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the two extant manuscript copies of a guide for undertaking spiritual pilgrimage to Jerusalem (the other manuscript copy is in Göttingen, Universitätsbibliothek, 8° Cod. Ms. theol. 295i) that is attributed to a certain priest named ‘Heer Bethleem’. The guide conce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

16. Add MS 25904

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Title:
Middle Dutch devotional manuscript
Scope & Content:
This Middle Dutch prayer-book was partially copied (ff. 121r-210v) by a religious woman named ‘Foelsken Hoeymans’. Her identity is known from another manuscript that originates from the female Franciscan tertiaries of Hessenberg in Nijmegen (Nijmegen, Regionaal Archief, MS I a 29). The female sc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
1530
Extent:

Paper codex

17. Add MS 28686

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Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This Middle Dutch prayer-book is made from two parts that were separately produced by different late-fifteenth- or early-sixteenth-century scribes. The two parts appear to have been used separately for some time before they were joined together: The first part (ff. 1-82) was copied by Scribe 1 (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

18. Add MS 29728

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Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This Middle Dutch prayer-book contains a large number of prayers for the feasts of the temporal cycle, Communion, the canonical hours, and personal devotion to the Virgin Mary and Christ. The manuscript was probably produced for a female religious community and certainly owned by religious women...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Parchment and paper codex

19. Add MS 29985

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Title:
A Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This sixteenth-century prayer book originates from the Augustinian canonesses regular of Maaseik. The manuscript contains a large number of prayers for personal devotional reading during the day. Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Calendar for Liège [Latin]. ff. 9r-16r: Arnulf van Leuven (b. c. 1200, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
c 1510
Extent:

Parchment and paper manuscript

20. Add MS 31001

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Title:
A Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This late fifteenth-century prayer-book supplied a convent of Dominican nuns with a large number of Christocentric prayers in addition to those of the Divine Office. Many of the manuscript's Passion-centred prayers are designed to help readers travel virtually to the sites associated with the Pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Paper manuscript