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Prayerbook: MS 263

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Prayerbook

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Description

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 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 A° 1483.

CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 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 – 13v Table for bloodletting according to the Zodiac signs; fol. 15r Circular diagram of the cycle of the Dominical Letter for the period 1483 – 1510; fol. 15v Circular diagram of the cycle of the Golden Number for the period 1483 – 1510; fol. 16v Table for calculating the date of the new moon using the Golden Number and the Dominical Letter; fols. 17r – 94v Prayers and meditations on the Life of Christ from the feast of St Andrew to the; Transfiguration; fols. 94v – 104r Sermon, Ik sel u een waerheit segghen
fols. 104v – 124v Prayers to the Virgin, the Lord, the Apostles, and Saints Barbara and Anne; fols. 125r – 132v Prayers for every half-hour at the canonical hours; fols. 132v – 138r Prayers based on the Penitential Psalms
fols. 138r – 139v Prayer on the Five Wounds; fols. 139v – 144v Devotion on the Passion; fols. 144v – 148v Prayer of St Francis, Heer ihesu christi dope mi mit dinem dueren bloede.

ORNAMENTATION: Blue and red parted initials [4 – 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 – 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.

Notes

History note: Ink inscription on recto of second flyleaf: mr. F m. No. 1595 z/v k/k P.J.U. 93 25/11 P.I.U. 93 25; presented to the Museum by William George Searle (d.1913), MA Queens’ College, in 1902.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1902) by Searle, William George

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  • Cambridge Illuminated

Materials used in production

Ink
Pigment

Components of the work

Support composed of parchment
Page Height 107 mm Width 80 mm
Text Height 62 mm Width 42 mm

Techniques used in production

Penwork
Illumination

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: [pri]sende claerheit
  • Location: Fol. 18r
  • Type: Secundo folio

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: MS 263
Primary reference Number: 169759
Project ID: 227

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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