Live auction - Lot 935
[Devotion - Prayerbook]
Latin manuscript with prayers to the Holy Virgin, and other texts.
[Low Countries?, c. 1400]
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
8vo, c. 24 x 18,5 cm: [28] ff., vellum, consisting of 2 quires of 16 and 12 ff., mod. pencil foliation, written in various Gothic hands, a number of marginal annotations in a later hand, mod. handwritten description loosely added (clear brown staining throughout, hole in f. 1).
Mod. pigskin, flat spine (sl. loosening at tail). In slipcase. In good condition.
Contents: I. (ff. 1r-21r) "Orationes beate Marie", litanies, the "Epistola missa ad Abagatum regem" (13v-15v), texts from i.a. Augustinus. II. (ff. 21v-25r) "De morte beate Marie tractatus devotissimus", in 2 cols of 32 ll. III. (ff. 25v-28v) a curious list of works of St Bernard contained in another manuscript (25v-27r), and texts by Popes Innocentius and Joannes XXII (27r-28v).
Decoration: ff. 1r-21r rubricated in red and blue and with 33 large initials in red and blue with penwork extending into the margins.