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Prayerbook
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.
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.
Method of acquisition: Given (1902) by Searle, William George
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parchment
Page
Height 107 mm
Width 80 mm
Text
Height 62 mm
Width 42 mm
Accession number: MS 263
Primary reference Number: 169759
Project ID: 227
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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