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| | New York, New York Public Library, Spencer Collection,
NYPL Spencer 151 | | Description: ff. 211 - Bound in contemporary brown calf. - Bought for Spencer, 1954. - Dictionary Catalog, Spencer Collection, 908. - Jonathan J. G. Alexander, James H. Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler, The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the New York Public Library(London / Turnhout: The New York Public Library / Harvey Miller Publishers, 2005) n. 64. | | Acknowledgments: - We thank Dr. Dominique Vanwijnsberghe for his extensive work towards the present description of this manuscript. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 10 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/NYPLSpencer151_42 | | Language: Dutch; Latin; French Country: Flanders Century: 15th |
| | Part 1: ff. 1-144v | | Description: - Parchment - 169 x 121 mm - 15 long lines per page, ruled in red ink, occasional prickings visible. From f. 57 to 161, quire signatures visible in upper left corner -- eight quaternions. Other collation unsure, but quinternions are the norm. | | Country: Flanders | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: Audenarde? | | Assigned Date: s. XV1 | Searchable Date Range: 1420 - 1440 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: ;2: A, ff. 2-187; B, ff. 188-211v; plus noting hands? | | Script: Gothic | | Figurative Decoration: 85 miniatures | | Other Decoration: 1-line gold initials with blue penwork. Floreate borders around initials. Rubrics. Red slashes as placemarkers. F. 188 and after, large initials, blue and gold 1-line initials with red or blue penwork. 2-line gold initials on blue and red fields. | | Notes: Throughout ms, blank pages or empty spaces are filled with notes in cursive hand. Latin | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: ff. 1-211v | | Title:
Prayerbook
| | Language(s): Dutch; Latin; French | | Explicit: miseracio tue pietatis absolvat per christum dominum nostrum. | | Notes: Mainly in Middle Dutch with prayers on the life and passion of Christ; Latin on ff. 188-209v, 211r-v; French in one prayer on ff. 208-210. | 
| f. 1v
Virgin and Child, with Sts. Agnes and Barbara, and the portrait of the female owner of the book.
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| f. 2
Incipit of main text, in hand 1, with small miniature of Christ holding a book and blessing.
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| f. 188
Opening of section in Latin, hand 2, with historiated initial of the Man of Sorrows supported by two angels.
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