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LOW GERMAN PRAYERBOOK WITH 21 MULTI-COLOUR DECORATED INITIALS

[MANUSCRIPT - PRAYERBOOK - LOW GERMAN].

[rubric of preliminaries:] Eyn manier wie man syne(n) afflays hollen sal sprech eyrst desse p(ate)r n(oste)r Oracie.
[incipit of preliminaries:] O lieve here Jh(es)u ֖(ist)e ich bydden dych durch alle de voistrappen de du up ertrich ee geyncks ...
[rubric of main text:] Dyt gebett sal men sprechen op den Avent des Erwerdigen loevelichen högetz(eit) der Entfenckenissen der der werdiger Jonffrauwen und  moder Gotz marien.
[incipit of main text:] Gegroit systu O alre reynste suuerlichste jonffrauwe maria eyn dochter des hemelschen vaders eyn moder syns eyngeborenen sons ...
[Lower Rhine?], 1620. 8vo (15.5 x 10 cm, text block ca. 12.5 x 7 cm). Manuscript prayerbook in black and red ink on paper, with 21 decorated 2 to 6-line uncial initials in red, black, green and yellow; hundreds of 1 and 2-line uncial initials in red (and 3 in black), some with interior decoration left white; rubrics to prayers written in red; and hundreds of words underlined in red or with their first letter rubricated. Written without ruling but with 15 to 17 lines per page. With 17 pages of prayers added by a user in a German or eastern Netherlands gothic hand. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with 2 brass catchplates (clasps gone).
  € 4750


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