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Book of hours in Middle Low German
Title
Book of hours in Middle Low German.
Created
Germany, 1486-1487.
Physical Description
1 item (i + 124 leaves + i) : parchment ; 118 mm x 80 mm
Language
German
Notes
Layout: 1 column of 16 lines.
Script: northern gothic textualis.
Decoration: one heavily effaced miniature of the Annunciation in gold and colors and evidence of excision of other miniatures; multi-line initials in gold, red, and blue on dark grounds; alternating red and blue initials; rubrication throughout.
Binding: original blind-stamped leather over wooden boards; spine exposed. Clasps wanting.
Title assigned by cataloger.
Two sets of foliations in modern pencil.
Bookseller description available.
In Middle Low German.
Provenance
Owned by Johann Heinrich van Ess (number 160 in van Ess, Sammlung und Verzeichniss handschriftlicher Bücher, 1832). Owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (545). Sold to Vienna bookseller W. Dolch in 1911. Purchased from King Alfred's Notebook on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2020.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, in unidentified hand, on parchment of a book of hours in Middle Low German. Includes foldout Zodiacal calendar, kalendar of saints' festivals, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Passion, Penitential Psalms, Litany of the Saints and prayers, Suffrages to Angels, Virgins, St. Sebastian, St. Barbara, and St. Katherine, a collection of short Middle Low German prayers, and Prayer to the Virgin.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
May 22, 2023
References
Book of Hours in Middle Low German. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Book of Hours in Middle Low German. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Books of hours.
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 15th century.
Also listed under
Germany.
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