Bryn Mawr College, MS 56

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16556

Shelfmark:

MS 56

Title:

Middle Dutch Prayer Book

Prayer book

Place:

Netherlands

Netherlands TGN

Date:

1440-1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350); Latin

Middle Dutch WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i+221+i; 112 x 74 mm bound to 117 x 84 mm; parchment

Note:

Marginal corrections or notes (p. 263, 407, 425, 427)
Positions of single leaves within quires 7, 8, and 27 are hypothetical
Binding: Leather binding, probably nineteenth century, with two brass clasps, restored by J. McDonald Co. (Norwalk, Connecticut); marbled endpapers and two ribbon bookmarks
Layout: Written in a single column of nineteen lines; frame-ruled with double horizontal bounding lines and single vertical bounding lines in faint ink; prickings visible; written area: 75 x 49 mm
Script: Written in a late gothic bookhand by at least two scribes
Decoration: Two decorated puzzle initials in red and blue with flourishing in red and purple, one seven-line (p. 1) and one eight-line (p. 5); one five-line decorated initial in blue flourished in purple (p. 151); one six-line decorated initial in red (p. 341); every other division or prayer begins with a two-, three-, or four-line initial, red or blue indiscriminately, with guide initials...
Provenance: Purchased from dealer William H. Allen, Philadelphia, 1970

Keyword:

Dutch (culture or style)

Fifteenth century

Prayer books

Netherlands

Prayers and devotions

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS56.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS56/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College