File:Middle Dutch Prayer Book (IA BMC MS56).pdf

Bryn Mawr College Library, MS 56. Netherlands, Mid-15th century. This manuscript is a mid-fifteenth-century Dutch prayerbook. Beginning with a section of prayers to the Virgin interspersed with rubrics listing the Psalms in order and dividing the Psalms and prayers by the days of the week (pp. 1-133), many additional prayers to the Virgin follow, including prayers attributed to Saint Augustine, Saint Bernard, and Saint Francis. A few prayers are directed to Jesus Christ. Written on parchment, the book is modestly decorated with a few puzzle initials and numerous simple colored initials in red or blue. The Pater noster and Ave Maria are written in Latin at the end (p. 441), followed by a possible owner name (Huernynck?, p. 442). A few contemporary corrections are written in the margins.