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Record Id:

032-003380065

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Add MS 15525

Title:

Middle Dutch prayer-book

Scope & Content:

This illustrated Middle Dutch prayer-book contains nine cycles of 10 prayers (although the final section may contain more prayers when counting the prayers on the death and Assumption of the Virgin Mary) that commemorate the lineage, life and death of Christ and the Virgin Mary. Each set is intersected by a verse prayer on the Passion that is facing an image of a rosary displaying the Five Wounds. The structure and images indicate that the sets of prayers were meant to be performed with the rosary. The prayer-book was probably produced for a specific patron or patrons, whose unidentified coats of arms are displayed thirteen times in borders.

ff. 3v-4r: The Office of the Holy Cross (‘Incipit officium sancte cruce ad matutinas’) [probably a later addition].

ff. 5v-14v: A sequence of prayers commemorating the time from the Creation up to St Anne and Joachim.

f. 15r: ‘Jesus : Huut rechter liefden weest ghegruet / Jesus Davids zone . ghepresen / die my ghecocht hebt met hu bloet / en van sonden . ooc ghenesen’.

ff. 16v-25v: A sequence of prayers commemorating the time from the birth of the Virgin Mary to the Circumcision of Christ.

f. 26v: ‘Jesus: Wilt doch my wonden cureren / duer die wonde huwer syden / op dat ic sonder cesseren / hu mach ghebenedyden’.

ff. 27v-35v: A sequence of prayers commemorating the time from the Adoration of the Magi until Christ’s teaching of the Samaritan woman at the well.

f. 36v: ‘Jesus: Lof sy altyt / de wonde huwer rechter hant / die my crachtich heeft beuryt [sic] / vanden duvel onsen viant’.

ff. 37v-47v: A sequence of prayers commemorating the time from the Anointing of Jesus until the Last Supper.

f. 48v: ‘Jhesus: Lof sy ooc die wonde groot / huwer slincker hant verheven / die my huut sduvels conroot / heeft ghebrocht , int eeuwich leven’.

ff. 49v-58v: A sequence of prayers commemorating the time from Christ’s washing of St Peter’s feet until his healing of the servant’s ear in the Garden of Gethsemane.

f. 59v: ‘Jesus: loef ick huwen rechten voet / Duer wont . aan tcruce hanghende / Durstich . waert ghy van diuden verwoet / Galle . voor dranc . ontfanghende’.

ff. 60v-69v: A sequence of prayers commemorating the time that Christ was brought to Annas until Pilate’s pardon of Barabbas.

f. 70v: ‘Jhesus : Den slincken voet ghequeest ghewont / heeft ooc ghesuvert , claer / ons die waren onghesont / onsuver : over menich iaer’.

ff. 71v-81r: A sequence of prayers commemorating the time from placing of the crown of thorns until the Crucifixion.

f. 81v: ‘Jesus: Lof lichaeme . van bloede root . / Ghecroont . ghenaghelt . ghecruyst . ter doot. / Vertroost my nu . in mynen noot . / En cleedt my . die ben . van duechden bloot’.

ff. 82v-91v: A sequence of prayers commemorating the time from the raising of the Cross until the Holy Women at the Tomb.

f. 92v: ‘Jesus : Diet al regiert , regiert ooc my / Op dat ic gherust , mach staen / Voer dy, ten laetsten daghe vry / En dat oordeel gods ontgaen’.

ff. 93v-102v: A sequence of prayers commemorating the time from the Resurrection until Pentecost.

f. 103v: A prayer on the death of the Virgin Mary.

f. 104v: A prayer on the Coronation of the Virgin Mary.

f. 105v: A prayer on the Last Judgment.

f. 106v: A prayer to St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist.

f. 107v: A prayer to St Peter and St Paul.

f. 108v: A prayer to St James the Greater.

f. 109v: A prayer to St Anthony.

f. 110v: A Latin verse, rubricated: ‘O MATER . DEI . MEMENTO MEI’.

[ff. 4v, 5r are blank].

Numerous full-page miniatures in golden frames (each recto between ff. 5v-110r contains a full-page miniature), containing full borders with foliate decoration in colours and gold.

Numerous large initials in red throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Dutch, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1424

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 140 x 100 (text space: 100 x 75 mm).

ff. 110 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 parchment stub between f. 102 and f. 103.

Script: Gothic (littera hybrida).

Binding: Post-1600. Blind-stamped and –tooled black leather binding, inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘BOOK OF PRAYERS IN DUTCH’.

Custodial History:

Origin: Netherlands, S; copied by a scribe who identifies himself/herself as 'F. P. S.' (f. 109v).

Provenance:

An unidentified 15^th-century patron: his/her coat of arms (azure, a chevron argent, on a canton or, a lion rampant sable) in the borders of ff. 70r, 71r, 86r, 94r, 96r, 103r, and 109r; a second coat of arms (or, a quail (?) surmounting two calipers (?) addorsed sable) in the borders of ff. 63r, 78r, 79r, 87r, 101r, 108r.

A member of the Duchateau family, in 1721: note on 1v ‘Desen boeck behoort toe aa[n] [...] Duchasteau 1721’.

Marie Catherine Duchateau (b. c. 1620), in 1685: note on f. 2r: ‘Desen boeksken hoort toe Marie Cath. Du^H. tot belle Anno 1685’ (her name also on f. 5r).

H. Cleri: purchased from him by the British Museum on 5 June 1845: note on f. 2r: ‘Purchased of H. Cleri 5 June 1845’.

Publications:

Robert Priebsch, Deutsche Handschriften in England, 2 vols (Erlangen: Junge, 1896–1901), II, p. 135 (no. 156).

Karel de Flou and Edward Gailliard, Beschrijving van Middelnederlandse en andere handschriften die in Engeland bewaard worden, Verslagen en Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde, 3 vols (Ghent: Koninklijke Vlaamsche Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde, 1895–1897), II (1896), pp. 224-25 (no. 39).

Willem L. de Vreese, Die eerste Bliscap van Maria (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1931), pp. 176-77.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1841-1845 (London: Woodfall, 1850), 1845, p. 15: 'A volume of Prayers, relative to the leading events in the Lives of Christ and the Virgin ; in Dutch ; each illustrated by a miniature. At the beginning is a short office of the Cross, in Latin. On vellum, of the latter part of the xvth century. Duodecimo [15,525.]'.