Dutch prayerbook

Description

Title: Dutch prayerbook
Published / Created: between 1460 and 1480.
Publication Place: Netherlands
Abstract: Manuscript, on paper, in Middle Dutch, in unidentified hand, containing a collection of Middle Dutch devotional texts. Including a variety of prayers, catechetical texts, and mystical texts from authors such as Jan Brugman, Jacobus van Gruitrode, and Mechteld of Hackeborn. Bound in parchment. Rubricated
Description: In Middle Dutch.
Layout: single column of 23-34 lines.
Script: Gothica Hybrida.
Title devised by cataloger.
Ownership inscription on back flyleaf: peeter reijnen behoort diet boek toe...
Ownership inscription on front flyleaf: joannes reijnen.
Borrowers' inscriptions of Anthonius Scheijmans, Matthijs Colen, Gerardus Renette on front and back flyleaves in this form: Memoriael voor [name] heeft dit boeck geleent in dit jaer [year].
Decoration: rubrication throughout.
Binding: vellum binding in wallet style with metal clasp.
Kept in modern green box with hinging lid.
Bookseller description available.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Peeter Reijnen. Formerly owned by Gerard Jaspers. Purchased from Konstantinopel rare & fine books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2023.
Extent: 1 item (iii + 145 leaves + iv) : 113 mm x 80 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Metal clasps
Prayer books 15th century
Prayers (literary works)
Signatures (names)
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Netherlands
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Devotional literature, Dutch
Prayer books
Subjects: Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Devotional literature, Dutch > Early works to 1800
Prayer books > Netherlands > Early works to 1800
15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Reijnen, Peeter > Ownership
Reijnen, Joannes > Ownership
Jaspers, Gerardus Johannes > Ownership

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Citation: Dutch Prayerbook. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.