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PRAYER BOOK, in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM AND PAPER
[Germany, 1420-1522]
95 x 75mm. i + 16, 29(ix a singleton), 3-68, 7-86, 88, 96, 104(of 6, v and vi cancelled), 116, 1210, 136, 1410, 166, 178(of 10, ix & x pastedowns), gatherings 1, 11-17 on paper, 13-22-26 lines written in black and brown ink in a cursive German bookhand, by at least three different scribes, rubrics and large opening initials in red (first gathering loose, some soiling). Contemporary blind-stamped armorial calf over wooden boards, bound in the monastery of Neresheim, front cover with the legend: 'MONASTERIUM NERESHEIM HARMANNUS COMES DE DILLINGEN KYBURG FUNDATOR' enclosing the Dillingen-Kyburg arms with date 1584 at foot, lower cover with roll-tool border enclosing differing arms and initials W.G.Z.O., and repeated date 1584, four spine compartments with repeated blind-tooled fleuron, brass clasps (upper cover detached, corners worn).
PROVENANCE:
1. The Abbey of Neresheim, near Noerdlingen, in Bavaria, founded by Hartmann I, Graf von Dillingen-Kyburg (1040-1121) and his wife, Adelheid, as a monastery of the Augustinian Canons. It changed to a Benedictine monastery in 1106, and it is likely that the arms on the lower cover of the binding are those of the abbot presiding in 1584.
CONTENT:
Prayers and Psalms for monastic use.
[Germany, 1420-1522]
95 x 75mm. i + 1
PROVENANCE:
1. The Abbey of Neresheim, near Noerdlingen, in Bavaria, founded by Hartmann I, Graf von Dillingen-Kyburg (1040-1121) and his wife, Adelheid, as a monastery of the Augustinian Canons. It changed to a Benedictine monastery in 1106, and it is likely that the arms on the lower cover of the binding are those of the abbot presiding in 1584.
CONTENT:
Prayers and Psalms for monastic use.