Middle Dutch Prayer Book, 1425 - 1475

Marginal corrections or notes (p. 263, 407, 425, 427). Positions of single leaves within quires 7, 8, and 27 are hypothetical.

Parchment support.

Leather binding, probably nineteenth century, with two brass clasps, restored by J. McDonald Co. (Norwalk, Connecticut); marbled endpapers and two ribbon bookmarks.

Leather binding, probably nineteenth century, with two brass clasps, restored by J. McDonald Co. (Norwalk, Connecticut); marbled endpapers and two ribbon bookmarks.

Written in a single column of nineteen lines; frame-ruled with double horizontal bounding lines and single vertical bounding lines in faint ink; prickings visible; written area: 75 x 49 mm.

Written in a late gothic bookhand by at least two scribes.

Two decorated puzzle initials in red and blue with flourishing in red and purple, one seven-line (p. 1) and one eight-line (p. 5); one five-line decorated initial in blue flourished in purple (p. 151); one six-line decorated initial in red (p. 341); every other division or prayer begins with a two-, three-, or four-line initial, red or blue indiscriminately, with guide initials frequently visible; sentences begin with red or blue one-line initials; rubrics written in red (or, at the end of the book, underlined in red when mistakenly written in black (for example, p. 304, 417, 432-440))

Modern pagination in pencil, upper right corner of rectos, odd numbers only.