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Devotions, in Dutch : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1-21v, 54v-95v, 218, 139-163v, 173-177v. [Meditations]. Dutch. A collection of meditations, sermons and prayers arranged according to the liturgical year, with many excerpts from such authors as Bonaventure, Bernard, Augustine, Anselm and Gregory. The text includes numerous added/inserted shorter texts; it is misbound and many leaves are missing. ff. 177v (rubric only), 182-217v, 164-172v. [Gerard Zerbolt van Zutphen] Van geestelijke opclimmingen. Dutch. This is the Dutch translation of De spiritualibus ascensionibus. ff. 218-231. [Pseudo Bernard] Prekel der mynnen. Dutch. This is the Dutch translation of Stimulus amoris; for the Latin text, see PL 184:953-966. Back flyleaf. [Breviary?] Latin. Containing part of the rite for visiting the sick, here with feminine forms in the original text, and the masculine forms supplied in superscript. Parchment 105 x 145 mm (measurement as given are from a cropped leaf). Germany, between 1150-1199.
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Date: [between 1425 and 1450] ;[between 1150 and 1199]
Call number: mssHM 1048
Provenance: Written in the northeastern Netherlands, to judge from the Ripuarian linguistic elements in the text. Colophon on f. 177v gives completion date of that text on All Souls Day, 1439; other texts were written at approximately the same time. Ex libris notes, s. XV, on f. 234v, "dijt boeck hort tw inden mergaerd ende voert gemeijn susteren" and, in the same hand, "Mechtel pijls" (crossed out and rewritten); s. XVIII, "L. Lambertus Sillekens"; f. 234, s. XIX, "Gerardus Simons [?] hoort dit boek toe. Die het vint geeft het weederom ende sie't niet en Doet hie zal __?___ Bidden Nun 1831." Belonged to Henry William Poor (1844-1915), with his red morocco ex libris on f. i; his sale, Anderson, New York, 12 January 1909, pt. III, n. 766. Apparently acquired by Henry E. Huntington at that time.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 145 x 105 mm
Associated people: Zerbolt, Gerard, (1367-1398.); Jacobus, (active 13th century.); Poor, Henry W. (1844-1915,)
Associated organization: Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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Devotions, in Dutch : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-166; [Devotions]: ff. 1v-13: Full calendar, one month across each opening; f. 13v, ruled, but blank; ff. 14-25v: [f. 14, blank], Short hours of the Holy Cross in the Dutch version of Geert Grote; ff. 26-55: [f. 26, blank], Devotions on the Passion for the canonical hours; ff. 55-62v: Prayers to the Cross, of the Seven Last Words, of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin; ff. 63-81v: [f. 63, blank], Mass of St. Gregory, prayers for the rosary; f. 80r-v, ruled, but blank; ff. 81-110v: Meditations for the rosary; ff. 111-121v: Suffrages of Jerome, one's guardian angel, Michael Archangel, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Cornelius, Martin, Anne, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Agnes, All Saints; ff. 120-121v, ruled, but blank; ff. 122-138v: [f. 122, blank] Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 139-144v: [f. 139, blank] Suffrages of Erasmus (with indulgence) and Christopher, prayer to Anne; ff. 144v-147v: Four prayers with indulgences; ff. 147v-154v: Prayers for Mass; ff. 155-164: Prayers for the week. ff. 164v-166v, blank.

mssHM 1140

Rule and testament of St. Clare of Assisi, in Dutch : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-18. [Clare of Assisi]. [Rules]. Dutch. Rule of St. Clare; for the Latin text, see Ignacio Omaechevarria, O.F.M., Escritos de Santa Clara (Madrid 1970) 251-76. On medieval Dutch manuscripts of the Rule and related texts, see David de Kok, ""Codices van Klarissen,"" Nederlandsch Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis, n.s. 17 (1924) 200-25, and his Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis der Nederlandsche klarissen en tertiarissen voor de Hervorming. Werken uitgegeven door het Historisch Genootschap, Utrecht, ser. 3, No. 52 (Utrecht 1927) and ""De Zegen van S. Clara in het Oud-Nederlandsch,"" Het Boek 10 (1921) 321-26. ff. 18-25v. [Clare of Assisi]. [Testament]. Dutch. For the Latin text see Omaechevarria, 277-86. ff. 25v-26v. [Clare of Assisi]. [Benediction]. Dutch. For the Latin text see Omaechevarria, 400-01. ff. 26v-27; ff. 27v-30, notes. [Profession of a nun]. Dutch. Vow of profession, with interlinear changes in another hand, contemporary. On f. 27v, autobiographical notes dated 1536 and 1555, Ic suster Clara van vorssel vaert gheboren op den xxisten dach van Julio op sinte Maria magdaleenen auent. . .Anno m.v.c ende vi dertich. . .[and professed] Int Jaer ons heer m vc 1v. . .; on f. 28, prayer and versicles for the profession of vows; on ff. 28-30, devotional material, arranged numerically (5 holy rules, 6 points, etc.).

mssHM 1052

Devotions : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-138v [Devotions]: ff. 1-28: One Hundred Meditations on the passion; ff. 28-35: Prayers to the wounds of Christ; ff. 35-43: Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget; ff. 43-52: Eight papal indulgences accompanying the relevant prayers; ff. 52-67v: Prayers before and after Communion; ff. 67v-79: Prayers; ff. 79v-86: Rosary; ff. 86-102v: Fifteen Sorrows of the Virgin, Seven Joys of the Virgin, and other prayers to the Virgin including the O Intemerata; ff. 102v-113: Farced Salve Regina; ff. 113-117: Three prayers revealed by the Virgin to St. Mechtilde; ff. 117-136: Prayers to the Trinity, to the Virgin, to one's guardian angel, to Michael, John the Baptist, Peter, Paul, Andrew, James, John the Evangelist, Stephen protomartyr, the 10,000 martyrs, Lawrence, Pantaleon, Sebastian, Augustine (prayer in feminine form, for a nun), Martin, Nicholas, Bernard, Roch, Catherine, Barbara, Agnes, Ursula, 11,000 Virgins, Cecilia, Mary Magdalene, Anne, Elizabeth, Erasmus, All Saints; ff. 136v-138v, now blank but under ultraviolet light, an added text in Latin and in French.

mssHM 1249

Book of Hours, in Dutch : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-220v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-10v: full calendar in Dutch; f. 10r-v: computistic notes; ff. 11-40: Hours of the Virgin, in the Middle Dutch compilation of Geert Grote; ff. 40v-42v: Prayers to the Virgin; ff. 43-59v: Hours of the Eternal Wisdom; ff. 59v-60v: Prayers to God and Christ, with indulgences; loss of one leaf between ff. 60-61, with resulting loss of text; ff. 61-78: Long hours of the Cross, beginning imperfectly due to loss of the leaf between ff. 60-61; ff. 78-91v: Prayers on the Passion of Christ; ff. 92-106v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 106v-107v: Prayers to Christ; ff. 108-176v: Prayers for the sanctorale; ff. 177-184v: Prayers for Communion; ff. 184v-188v: Prayers to Christ and to God the Father; ff. 189-216v: Office of the Dead, use of Utrecht; ff. 216v-220v: Prayers with indulgences.

mssHM 1127

Evangeliary : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-177v; f. 178r-v, blank. Latin. f. 1, blank; ff. 1v-147v, Gospel lections for the temporale, Advent through the Friday after the 25th Sunday after Pentecost; ff. 147v-174, Gospel lections for 110 feasts of the sanctorale, Silvester (31 December) through Thomas the Apostle (21 December); ff. 174-177v, Gospel lections for the common of saints, in dedicatione Ecclesie, in dedicatione altaris, de sancta trinitate, de sancta cruce, in Agenda mortuorum.

mssHM 1043

Psalter, with collects : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-188v; ff. 189-194v blank. [Psalter]. Latin. Biblical psalter, each psalm proceded by a titulus and followed by collects (here "oratio"); the collects generally agree with the Roman series, except for 12 of the Hispanic series and 27 not precisely identified; collect R74 is copied twice, after Pss. 73 and 74; the collect after Ps. 118, 96 is R11811; after Ps. 118, 153 there are 4 collects. See L. Brou, The Psalter Collects. HBS 83 (London 1949). On ff. 167-177v, canticles; on ff. 177v-181v, Gloria, Credo, Pater noster, Te deum, Quicumque vult; on ff. 181v-187, litany including Germanus, Nicholas and Louis among the confessors; Benedict, Maurus, Placidus, Onuphrius and Leonard among the monks and hermits; Scholastica among the virgins; on ff. 187-188v, added, s. XVII, an index in Italian of the psalms for the office of the Virgin arranged according to the hours of the office, and index of the penitential and gradual psalms with reference to page numbers added to the text leaves by the same person.

mssHM 1041

Devotions, in Dutch : [manuscript]

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