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Dutch Prayer Book [Fragment] Public Deposited

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  • Language: Dutch, Middle, Language: Flemish. Incipit: //O here ihesu criste ick anbede di in den cruce. Explicit: die gheuanghenen ick bidde di dattu mi daer niet en laetes //. Folio range: [1]r-v
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Time Period
  • Second half of the 15th century
Place of Origin
  • Netherlands
  • Flanders
Description
  • Leaf from a Dutch prayer book produced in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • mma_020_001
Keywords
  • Devotion
  • Fragment
  • Netherlands
  • Flanders
  • Christian
  • Prayer book
  • Inhabited initial
  • Border
  • Illumination
Title
  • Dutch Prayer Book [Fragment]
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Page dimensions (in mm): 122 x 87. Written area (in mm): 70 x 50. Line height (in mm): 4.2. Script: Gothic. Script type: Textualis. Layout: One column, ruled in light brown ink for sixteen lines. Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 16. Decoration: Partial, illuminated scatter border framed with red on recto with foliage and flowers in green, light red, blue, brown, and yellow with white accents. Also on the recto is an eight-line illuminated, inhabited initial depicting the arma christi in light red, green, yellow, and light blue, with white accents. Alternating one-line blue and red initials. Rubrication.
Language
  • Dutch, Middle
  • Flemish
Alternate Identifier
  • 1937.21 (Accession number)
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Date Created
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • Muskegon Museum of Art. Muskegon, MI.
Provenance
  • This leaf was purchased by the Muskegon Museum of Art from Otto F. Ege, Cleveland, OH. Accessioned May 1937
Bibliographic Citation
  • Ricci, Seymour de. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 3 vols. New York: HWWilson, 1935. [Vol. 3, p. 1945]
  • Gwara, Scott. Otto Ege’s Manuscripts. Cayce, SC: De Brailes Publishing, 2013. [Pp. 160-1]

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