(Q43215)

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Prayer books--Germany--15th century
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Devotional literature--Early works to 1800
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between 1461 and 1499
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Extent: ff. i + ii + 245 + i + i : paper ; 67 x 89 mm
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Devotional texts written in northwestern Germany (as suggested by the veneration shown to Odilia and Matthias, patrons respectively of Strasbourg and Trier), after 1461 (the date of canonization of Catherine of Siena), for and probably by a Dominican whose name seems to have been Louis, on f. 184v is a prayer for "...me indignum famulum tuum ludowicum..."
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Span folios: ff. 1-245v. Support: Paper. Watermark(s): Watermarks, Armoiries, Fleur de lis similar to Briquet 1744, Paris 1482, Cologne 1481-94 and various other places in northeastern Europe. Layout: 110(-1, 10; 1 replaced by another leaf) 2-510 612(-1, 10 after ff. 49 and 57) 710(-9 after f. 67, probably blank) 810(through f. 78) 910(through f. 88) 1010(through f. 98) 1110(-9, 10 after f...
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Decoration: 6- to 1-line red initials, occasionally washed in yellow; rubrics and underlining in red. Damage to ff. 98v and 227v suggests that engravings, once pasted to these pages, have since been removed. Contemporary foliation, 49-50 (on present ff. 2-3), 68-70 (on present ff. 20-22), 99-106 (on present ff. 50-57), 108-117 (on present ff. 58-67), 119 (on present f. 68) 120-127 (on present...
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 11/25/2009.
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On f. 245, ownership note of "Frater Balthasarus Schuop anno domini 1572." Sixteenth century ex libris of a convent, probably Dominican, in Frankfurt on f. ii, "Iste libellus pertinet ad Conventum Franckfordiciensem Anno domini [15]78." Eighteenth century pressmark, presumably of the same convent, on f. iii verso, "No. 4910 C[onventus] fr[atrum] O[rdinis] P[raedicatorum]." Given after the...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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