![[FRANCE, MANUSCRIPT] Sensuivent oraisons fransoyses tres devotes a tous chrestiens. Manuscript on vellum. [France, 16th century]. 190 x 110 mm. 8 leaves: 18, 28 lines written in brown ink in a script influenced both by humanistica and by gothic letter forms, blind-ruled, justification: 170 x 75 mm, recto of first leaf treated as a wrapper with title in capital letters at top, followed by a symbol resembling a notary's mark with the motto "Deum time". (Ff. 1, 5, 7 and 8 with losses to blank areas, original holes in ff. 7, 8 mended before writing, the mend on f. 8 now partially detached, f. 7 with loss to upper corner affecting two words, f. 8 with hole in text area affecting three words.) Stitched; in brown cloth case. Provenance: shelfmark(?) 410=0181=0.../801 on f. 1v.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1998/NYE/1998_NYE_08177_0178_000(112444).jpg?w=1)
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[FRANCE, MANUSCRIPT] Sensuivent oraisons fransoyses tres devotes a tous chrestiens. Manuscript on vellum. [France, 16th century]. 190 x 110 mm. 8 leaves: 18, 28 lines written in brown ink in a script influenced both by humanistica and by gothic letter forms, blind-ruled, justification: 170 x 75 mm, recto of first leaf treated as a wrapper with title in capital letters at top, followed by a symbol resembling a notary's mark with the motto "Deum time". (Ff. 1, 5, 7 and 8 with losses to blank areas, original holes in ff. 7, 8 mended before writing, the mend on f. 8 now partially detached, f. 7 with loss to upper corner affecting two words, f. 8 with hole in text area affecting three words.) Stitched; in brown cloth case. Provenance: shelfmark(?) 410=0181=0.../801 on f. 1v.
A pamphlet in agenda format containing apparently unpublished verse prayers in French, written for the use of a woman to judge from the phrase "Que suis prisoniere" on f. 3v. These texts are not listed in K.V. Sinclair, French Devotional Texts of the Middle Ages, Westport Conn. 1979, and supplements 1982, 1988, or in Pierre Rzeau, Rpertoire d'incipit des prires franaises la fin du moyen ge, Geneva 1986.
Contents:
(1v-4r) Oraison a la Vierge Marie. Mere de dieu qui fut mise et assise ...
(4r-4v) Oraison a S. Barbe. O glorieuse Sain Barbe Je te quiers tres humblement ...
(4v-5v) Oraison a la Vierge Marie. Marie dame toute belle Vierge pucelle pure et mounde ...
(5v-6r) A S. Anne et sa lignee. Saincte Anne pourta seullement Troys fille troys foys mariees ...
(6r-8r) Oraison a nostre dame. Royne des cieulx glorieuse Fille et mere de dieu precieuse ... At the end the motto: "Ainsi soit it".
(8v blank).
A pamphlet in agenda format containing apparently unpublished verse prayers in French, written for the use of a woman to judge from the phrase "Que suis prisoniere" on f. 3v. These texts are not listed in K.V. Sinclair, French Devotional Texts of the Middle Ages, Westport Conn. 1979, and supplements 1982, 1988, or in Pierre Rzeau, Rpertoire d'incipit des prires franaises la fin du moyen ge, Geneva 1986.
Contents:
(1v-4r) Oraison a la Vierge Marie. Mere de dieu qui fut mise et assise ...
(4r-4v) Oraison a S. Barbe. O glorieuse Sain Barbe Je te quiers tres humblement ...
(4v-5v) Oraison a la Vierge Marie. Marie dame toute belle Vierge pucelle pure et mounde ...
(5v-6r) A S. Anne et sa lignee. Saincte Anne pourta seullement Troys fille troys foys mariees ...
(6r-8r) Oraison a nostre dame. Royne des cieulx glorieuse Fille et mere de dieu precieuse ... At the end the motto: "Ainsi soit it".
(8v blank).