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Illuminated Manuscript. Folio 17r. Prayerbook. Middle Dutch. Gothic bookhand (textualis). Parchment, iii paper flyleaves + 148 fols. + i paper flyleaf, 107 x 80 (62 x 42) mm, 16 long lines, ruled in brown ink. BINDING: eighteenth-century, vellum over pasteboards, spine inscribed Gebeden Boek van AÂ° 1483. Production Place: Northern Netherlands, Holland. 1483. CONTENTS: fols. 1r â 10r Calendar; fol. 10v Table of the Zodiac signs and the lunar cycle of 19 years; fol. 11r Table for calculating the number of weeks between Christmas and Quinquagesima Sunday using the Golden Number and Dominical Letter; fol. 11v Table of good and bad activities as determined by the Zodiac signs; fols. 12r â 13v Table for bloodletting according to the Zodiac signs; fol. 15r Circular diagram of the cycle of the Dominical Letter for the period 1483 â 1510; fol. 15v Circular diagram of the cycle of the Golden Number for the period 1483 â 1510; fol. 16v Table for calculating the date of the new moon using the Golden Number and the Dominical Letter; fols. 17r â 94v Prayers and meditations on the Life of Christ from the feast of St Andrew to the; Transfiguration; fols. 94v â 104r Sermon, Ik sel u een waerheit segghen fols. 104v â 124v Prayers to the Virgin, the Lord, the Apostles, and Saints Barbara and Anne; fols. 125r â 132v Prayers for every half-hour at the canonical hours; fols. 132v â 138r Prayers based on the Penitential Psalms. fols. 138r â 139v Prayer on the Five Wounds; fols. 139v â 144v Devotion on the Passion; fols. 144v â 148v Prayer of St Francis, Heer ihesu christi dope mi mit dinem dueren bloede. ORNAMENTATION: Blue and red parted initials [4 â 6 ll.] with red pen-flourished infill and extensions tinted in green and forming partial borders at main text divisions; blue or red penwork initials [3 â 4 ll.] with voided ornament and red pen-flourished infill and extensions tinted in green; alternate blue and red penwork initials [2 ll]; capitals highlighted in red.
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