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Dutch prayers

Prayer for a good death (fol. 99r-v); Pseudo-Bridget of Sweden, Fifteen Prayers of St. Bridget (fol. 99v)

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Leuven, Archief van de Abdij van Park, IIB3h.1c/2

Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Dutch prayers
Shelfmarks Leuven, Archief van de Abdij van Park, IIB3h.1c/2
Former Shelfmarks Ms. 24
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Eastern Flanders, probably Ghent or Bruges
Date of Origin first half 16th century
Script, Hands

16th-century gothica cursiva libraria.

Original Condition

Page Height 143 mm
Page Width 103 mm
Height of Written Area 104 – 110 mm
Width of Written Area 76 – 77 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 76 – 77 mm
Number of Lines 24
Line Height 5 mm
Ruling Frame ruling in crayon
Numbering

Foliation in Arabic numerals in the upper right corner, in faint ink ('99').
More about the Condition

Fragment is a detached leaf from from an otherwise preserved manuscript (Leuven, Archief van de Abdij van Park, ID3.27). Leuven, Archief van de Abdij van Park, IIB3h.1c/3 (F-xf4y) and IIB3h.1c/4 (F-mf17) are fragments from the same manuscript. Originally, this fragment was fol. 99 in this manuscript. However, the manuscript was foliated again after this leaf was detached. It fits between the current fol. 95 and 96.

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf
Dimensions 143 x 103 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Border in Ghent-Bruges style, depicting flowers and birds (fol. 99r). Plain gilded initials on a coloured background, red rubrication, red colour stroking.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Dutch
    • Title Prayer to receive a good death
    • fol. 99r
    • Remarks

      Prayer addressing Christ.
  • Content Item
    • Persons (Pseudo-)Bridget of Sweden
    • Text Language Dutch
    • Title Fifteen Prayers of St. Bridget
    • fol. 99v
    • Edition Indestege, Luc, ed., Een Diets gebedenboek uit het begin der zestiende eeuw, herkomstig uit het voormalig klooster Sint-Hieronymusdal te Sint-Truiden (Gent: Koninklijke Vlaamse academie voor taal- en letterkunde, 1961), 98-103.
    • Secondary Literature Deschamps, Jan, and Herman Mulder, Inventaris van de Middelnederlandse handschriften van de Koninklijke bibliotheek van België, 15 vols (Brussel: Koninklijke Bibliotheek van Belgie, 1998), xv, p. 100 (G78A-D). 
    • Remarks

      Dutch translation of the fifteen prayers that were supposedly noted by Bridget of Sweden, who received them from Christ.
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