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- Bound in tooled sixteenth-century calf over boards. Metal bosses and clasps lacking, portions of leather straps remain, fastening back to front., f. 62v: Simple black ink drawing of rising sun, washed with red, blue, yellow, and green. Initials: 1- to 8-line crudely drawn pen flourished initials in red, blue, and green passim, one-line single color initials in red passim., Fifteenth or early sixteenth-century German prayerbook for nuns containing meditations and prayers based on office and mass texts of the Easter and Easter season liturgy in Latin and Eastfalian, a dialect of Low German spoken near the River Elbe., Written in various hands, primarily in gothic hybrida, gothic cursiva after f. 361r., and Written for private devotion in a Cistercian convent in the fifteenth or early sixteenth century. Vernacular was initially identified as Ripuarian Low German with Rhenish influences, characteristic to the upper Rhineland; see Waddell, "The Vidi aquam and the Easter Morning Procession: Pages from the Prayerbook of a Fifteenth-Century Cistercian Nun," Liturgy OCSO 21:3 (1987), 4-5. This identification has been clarified as Eastfalian, a dialect spoken in the area around the River Elbe. The convent in which it was written is with high probability the Cistercian convent Medingen near Lüneburg where more than a dozen parallel Easter prayer-books were written, identified by Dr. Henrike Laehnemann in correspondence on March 29, 2012. Folios 241v-242v feature a lengthy colophon, "Scripto et finito libro... Gaudia mansura confert nobis hic dies iubilosa et diliciosa." Given by J. Christian Bay to the Abbey of Gethsemani in the early twentieth century; front pastedown notes: "Gift from our good friends, Mr. J. Christian Bay, Chicago Ill."
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Bound in 19th-century purple paper over pasteboards, with gilt foliate decoration on paper over cloth spine., On f. 1r: 3-line blue initial on red decorated panel background with pen-flourished extenders; on f. 6v: 3-line red initial on blue decorated panel background with pen-flourished extenders; 1- and 2-line blue and red pen initials throughout; some sections underlined in red ink., Fifteenth-century, German missal with the Gloria, prayers to be said by the priest at the altar along with the Creed, portions of the Temporal, and votive masses to the Virgin and Cross., gothic textualis formata (textus quadratus), 3-line staves with black, square musical notation passim, and Written in the second half of the 15th century, probably in Germany. On rear paste-down: “52 Pages” and “414-3343” in pencil Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron, Ohio, June, 2008.
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- [1450 TO 1499]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries